TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4453, 24 June 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

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.' The : saying, that.tberais new ander.the.flun haa.agnin' received #$ confirmation in- reference to ■ the -0 question of; local option;:: March, 1668, exactly 280k yeara ago ; f : the following order was made bytbo '■s justices of the assize bolden at Bury '.;.: : j St. Edmonds;—Order made to the ,: joßlic.es-. of the peace to inquire as to ■ the number of inns, alehouses, and: 1 ; victualling houses, the continual in- Increase of which pestitsithe country j ; by what authority theyTrSvebeen alv. : lowed or licensed, and what number is fit to be continued by the advice of'•■ the minister And principal inhabitants '; of every parish.—Manawatu Stand. ■ ■■ -/ srd. - : ?■:-.-

Bona Fide Travellers.

At the Pioton Lioensing Meeting > Constable Jeffries said there, was a' ■'; question he wished to draw' ihe Com- • '>: mittee's attention- to.~ - y ooming from the WairauiOT^'after.v; noon were in the habit of staying till J; three or four, or even six o'olook in. "j the morning, and he wished to know'- I if a publican was justified in serving I them with liquor, and thereby con- .1 tributing to their rendering the night :| hideous with the row, oil; the ground f' that they were bona fide Be thought the Committee might .. deal with the matter. Mr Sommer- ; vill Baid there waa no doubt they were bona fide travellers according to the Act.—Marlborough Times. Public Opinion, Says the Otago Daily Times :-Becent anti»license meetings at Boslyn and Maheno are not & little signifioaut of the tendency of publio opinion , with regard tn the liquor traffic. Both ; of these districts are pro^j ; hibitionist, but.in [ being made to get the old orderroTO > stored, Heno? the meelihgs we have ■- 1 just mentioned. They were both ' strongly opposed to there-granting of L I licenses. The resolution to that efO j feet was oarried at Roslyn almost un- ~ • ahimously, while at Muheno' there s was only one dissentient, But the . '. most noticeable thing in connection 1 witli this opposition to the liqudrkj. 1 traffic is tho testimony given by wo-1 , men as to its baneful effects. At Ma* "I: lieno two women spoke with much •« P effect, One of thorn said that her- ' husband, "whom they all knew to be e fond of his liquor," had been drunk 1 only once since the hotel was closed. • e She also spoke oi the disgusting 8 sights often witnessed, and the abom- ! inable language with which their ears '' were often assailed when the public d house was open, and she asked if it ,t was not a shame that children should

be exposed to suoh contamination, The proprietress, it seems, had signed a petition to get the hotel where she is now living dosed, in*order to keep I her husband from getting liquor. 'Why then should she want to get a license for her own house to make other wo- ■ men's husbands drunk ? Another woman said that she had Buffered from drink for 30 years, that when the Otepopo hotels were olosod her huaband got drink irom Mahenb, and that in the eud she and her children had to leavetheir.home, Shethguto'earnestlj hoped tha> be granted neither to toaHfaueno. Hotel nor to any other. The other Bpeakers testified to the great improvement in the condition of the condition of the township ; it had never been so quiet and orderly, and anintoxicated person was rarely seen, - There was besides better accommodation than formerly, We have heard from aprivate source that ready money has also been more plentiful with the customers al the local stores—a sure Bign of solid improvement, It will be strange indeed if a license is granted for the Maheno Hotel in the face of suoh strong, and, we night add, suoh pathetic, testimony to the good effects of local prohibition, How it is-Done,

The Tunpßka Timoa is r&poneaible for the following:—A man who' bad been employed on a neighboring station drew his cheque amounting to L6O, and went to Dunodin with the good intention of taking a few days' reßt aDd innocent recreation, the first day ho held stoutly to his good resolutions, walked round and surveyed the buildings-acheap bind 6f entertainment to bajOook, visitors -and retired to. cotrrfny' congratulating himself on the moral triumph he bad aohievod. Next morning he sullied forth, and in the course of his rambles he ran against a very old friend, and before be had recovered from the surprise the two were making a bee-lino for the nearest pub, Drink followed drink, with the usual result, and next morning when he came to his senses bo found himself without a red cent. The L6O he had sweated and toiled so many months for was gone, every penny of it—transferred to the pooket of some prowling thief. South Carolina Liquor Laws,

There is much interest evinced in ' the experiment soon to be began in - South Carolina, in treating the drink evil (says the.' Literary Djaeat', from whioh the following taken):—The last - . islature passed a;bill, law, for the establishment of State dispensaries for the sale of liquor in quantities not less (ban a half-pint, not to be drank on the premises, All other sales (except bydrttggists) are forbidden. The dispenser is to be . | appointed by a State OommissioD, which is appointed by the Goverpor. Every dispenser is to be a total abstainer, is to receivo.a definite salary irrespective of the amount of bissalos, and must not sell at an. advance of over fifty por cent, on the cost. No dispensary is to bo established ip any country-seat unless it is petitioned for by a majority of the freeholders, and then but one dispensary in each country - seat, except Charleston • (which may have ten) and 'Colombia (whioh may have three), The liquor dealers are the constitutionality ofptie law. The; Prohibitionists.arc disposed to wel-V,•. come it as an improvement over the . license system, but not a final settle-* ment of the question