TEPERANCE ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4400, 22 April 1893, Page 2

TEPERANCE ITEMS

j Ths Conference at Auckland. Hr 8. ®i Hornblow, who represented Maaterlsa at the rscaat Teen* peraaeo Convention nt Auckland, presented (he jfollcwing report to tbe Pfcsfoist Lodge, 1.0.0. T., on his ra. iuM-: I , ■ ■ Aa your I attended tlis Bieatiial 'Jbnfctouea held in AaekUnd 6a the lat April. The gathering was a most successful one, peiag tbe largest representative misting: yet h«kl in the colony. The vsmug reports showed increased terand aew Lodges, and tbat as * body,we ware more powerful and better Tbo rapid progress made duribg the past, two years points to decisive victory on the side of Temperance. The delegates assembled at Auokland represented nearly 10,000 Gtjod Templars. Shis fact ; alone should inspire hope in even tbe faintest of oar members, and whan we are called upon to units ia the &»• i- ohise against the lignor irsific, let as pull together with other kindred societies, mod the battle is ours. The greatest difficulty in the post has Item ' the apathy shown by the various Lodges throughout New Zealand in electoral matters. This qaeetion has ; tweaUkenj Bp by the Conference, and i it iaiatsaqed to aet|«boat organising ; at to place mea in the Hoass I who are .pledged to jpire th« dir®si fQtfta Uw psopfe. Haemal mention ( wee . mads |at the Cfenfereaaa at the i prominent! part takaa by Use Roffitsa , Catholic Ofc«rch,tbe Salvation Amy, i wad other denominations in this great i reform, and if only tbe co-ojssj'aiksa ' eTifae Church of England e&tild bs B®bar®d, Ifcej'a would be no doubt as L to tbe reealt. ■ - , Tm innpal drink Bill iastiU k«gs i ut will ba aMn from the follewing i figure* compiled by Mr 0. M. Gray, M representing the ooneomptioa for ■ 1808- - GP.'Jors, @ £ Sffclls 482,665 40*. 905,190 1 WIOH 111,609 40s. miM i KotfUh Al« . m,to7 ss. 71,199 , Colonial B*tr 4,019,<30 4a. 024,704 low o MUML £3024,104 These fierce show that tbe avaraga pet head lias decr@assd since last year !rb« 40 & 7fd to £3 2b Od. As com pared with! oar sister coloniga we- ea* [ supj a pleasing poiilkm 1 Victoria iboweataut ol ~ fs'l&r&i! [ Kaw South \ViJm ihowa a ootl o! ti l%i M | N«w ZeaUddibowa&oo>tot JSB 2s Sfd , To this, 1 however most be ftdded the , cost o£ a vtsiy large proportion oi out ptiblio espenditare lor tho maintP i nanea of I tbo Police, Juatiee, imd Lautvf Departiiiaatsj which are ' respectively:— ' RiHM LuaaiisAsyluma ~ * ; Justice Bepiiimsni .. 151,706J I _At least tbres-lourtha of this quarter , million of money is chargeable to the effects of drink upon the mantal and 1 inoral facaltiea. All this iom wo have to place agsinst the trade, j Some inßtraetion taay be gained j from the foliowiog table, showing the t OaEtoiria revenue derived from the i importation of the nrions Articles , named:— ' Per ilead. Total. ' „ . , £ B. d £ Spirits ii/ g 839,758 Wme .. ..017 31,5X3 N.Z.Becr .. „D2 91 67,099 Ale and beer .. ~ 00 11 18,603 ' Tobacco ..1 3 7 2U.736 : ..0 8 0 101,330 Coffee and Chicory .. 0 0 21 7,108 Sngar .. ... ..' 03 4 113,560 Csgara and Cigarettes 0 4 7 47,745 AU.coasumed ad vafo- , rem goods ~ .. 013 S| 448,005; ! While we pay this enormous sum, j J the Department of Public Debt and j \ Education! only receive the following! l amoonta :| — Interest on JLoaoSj I £2,128,48p; Education, £885,771. 1 Referriijg to the financial position ' of the Grand Ledge tbe bank balances , last audit Were £275 19a 93, which i with tbe receipts for the term of £905 1 4s Id, make the total receipts of £l,lßl 3s IQd. The representatives' expenses lfst session were £2lB lis 2d, general expanses £679 9a 10§d, present balances £2BB 2s 9ld,making the total of £l,lßl 3s 10d. Gar r £ ceipts for the E,eTen qaarters only been £7 2s 6d less than they were for the eight previous quarters, whilst , our expenditure has beau £10? 19s &§d less. The figures for the pre- , ?ioas term j were—receipts £9lB 6s 7d, and espendituro £787 8s lid. Since tHe last eitting of the Conference 82 Lodges hare been inatitnted or re-orgsrniaed." Progress in England. Lady Henry Somerset, the wellknown President of tbe British branch ol the W.0.T.U., and a leader of the prohibition, -movement ia England, arrived at New York, from England, recently. She was on her way to attend the National W.C.T.U. Convention at Denver, which commences on , the 28th in at,, and will then return to ■ England. iSho was accompanied by,'' Mies Frances Willard, who has been visiting in England for a few weeks. ; To a New York newspaper inter- 1 viewer Lady Somerset: gars the foU Sowing information tbout present 1 progress inj England: " The ance movement in England hag received great impetus; sine© the » i cent elections, ia which the politicians ' were fonod to recognize it The ' Liberals went bo far as to incorporate ® in their plalfora a plunk advocating mperaoce:reforia aad the direct veto, * which means practical prohibition. < " Two members of the cabinet, John Morley and Sir William Ear- i eonrt, besides other prominent jaaa, ' took as active interest in tbe temper- ' ance discussion. After twenty year* s of hard work we just begin to realise < some practical results, We hope to get a bill tbiongh tho nest parliament i granting to the districts in England 1 the powari to prohibit the sale of liquor, and with the aid of the Liberal 1 party, I tbink we shall tuceeed. There 18 not a Baloon ia the great city of Loadon without barmaids, of which <i therbare twenty thonsasd. Tbera o is, I more drinking and ia- -* toxicatioa among the English women & than among the American womeo. In London itisjqnit* a common thing to V see gaito respeotable women of ths middk clasa ia »ad ous sjf saloons. In- this is a'rasa P Ol coarse there is conaiisi. 1 able tippling among prdmment 0 society women ia England. Our ® Sunday-elosing law ia inadeqtMte, aa a an hoar asd a half in the Q and a tunlajr p«c£pi in- the .| is the only time thsy aro not g huKaeea. The trouble with 'you# 8 Amgrfcaß laws is thai they ar« aol h eaforcsd, and thsrsloea. beeoaja &:* & cietdi; I thisk the £Mson ef ibis k that. ha?a too ssmy wko are opfsosed to -toiiiiMmt. 4 had to deal mth mkye I m thiiak joq w&ali have less troufcfe"' %