The Fruits of Drink.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4513, 2 September 1893, Page 3

The Fruits of Drink.

A vory severe sentence seems to us to ha»e been passed recently on a young man named Doyle, iu Timuru, where he was sent to gaol .for Dine month?, for using obscene language, whilst under the influence of liquor, According to the local paper, he misconducted himself at ono of the hotels on beiog refused liquor, and on the way to the police station u*ed the language complained of. He was convicted of drunkenness and dinorderly conduct, and discharged, and then sent to gaol for nine months for the obscene language, As drink was the primary cause of both offences, why were the magistrates so inconsistent us todiscbargo in the one case, and convict iu the other ? The law winta at a man being supplied with bad liquor, which sets him mad for the tflio being, and then punishes bim'for his insane utterances by a. long term of imprisonment. We (Caibol>o Times) think tbat a substantial tioe, or a much shorter term'of imprisonment, would havq suted in this case,

fihristchijrch Truth says that' beer and gin are the real piasters of England, or rather tbose who manufacture beer and gip aro England's uncrowned Kings, Their trail, like that qf the serpent, is all over, and nowhere [bicker and more slimy than in the pplumiiß of tfie Britisli'preßS.