TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4651, 17 February 1894, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Drink Again I

FmMs descensus Avemi. The story . of an inobriate, which was unfolded at the lIM, Court this morning, afforded a Bad illustration of the melancholy proverb. He answered to tho name of Frederick de'Lnoy, though this was only oue of the aliases with which he hid sought to veil his degiaded-flßiyicVj u&liiy. Only onevicewaSTus'!' The son of a cavalry officer, he hnd. himself • twi a conspicuous member :■ of one of the orack coips of the Army, - the 17ih Lancers. In India he dis,- . tinguished himself, and wa«town as the best Sivordsma'n and aIE of h'is regiment, In London, he held his own all ho quitted the service. Then he drifted 10 New Zealand, and sustained himself chiefly by feeding on • the past. On tbio pernicious diet he speedily fell into a statu of moral atrophy, and became a hopeless wanderer. In Timaru he fell across good old Tom Tpwsey, the nonpariel.' steward of the hospital, in whom he" recognised a former brother-in-arms in India, Jowsey, of air men the least likely to turn his back on a friend, stuck to the wanderer and bound up his wounds, and set him on his feet towards reformation. But it was no use. The feeble stem could not stand, and he drifted away again, re-appearing in various parts of the oolony. To-day, the soldierly-looking' figure was shaking frightfully, and the Bench aoted mercifully in fining him > £1 or seven days, knowing that he would have to take the alternative, though ho pleaded in an excited tone to.be 'let right away.' Who is it that supplies suoh men with liquor, or asks them to drink? Their names ought to be placarded up as dangerous members of society.—Napier Sews.

■]'.!« Za;iM< says :-Dr Wilkinson, of Tynemouth, smgcon to the Tynemouth Volnnteor Life Brigade, in reftreue'e to an accident sybioh ourred on the pier duringtheYlate__--; gate, gave . timely advice to 'the "" volunteers as to the danger of administering alcohol to m drowned persons, Ho mentioned the case ol a young man who waß knooked down on the pier by a wave, sustaining an injury to his side. He was brought to the surgery drenched to the Bkin , and extremely cold. He emitted a strong odour of spirits, and it was found that after the- accident he had' been taken to a publiq house and brandy had been'given to him. "Dc Wilkjnson ordered 'liim, to go"to bed acoiice at a'hotel, but he'persisteq in returning home 1 to NoVeaatle—a s|ow journey—sitting 'irf-' his >e| clothes,' tie' digd half an qqur aftej his arrival homp, ' Br' Wilkinson, pointed put that it was importanji tq the members qf the brigade tq • remember 'that it qras often a fetal mistake to give brandy to a half drowned person, at any rate unlit the wet olothing had boon removed and the temperature had been raised in a warm bed."

fk ' TheMiwasffc Daily Climmck says; -"A lawsuit recently tried in Canada throws an umusing light upon the taotios of the teetotallers' oppV oats. In order to make a good case for themselves, they appear to have employed a 'literarygent' to write to the newspapers lottersadvooating prohibition,, and then to reply to these letters in scathing terras.' The former communicatjofts were naturally Weak. Ij the : latter'nattirally'slrong. : .As the 1 literary gent! aforesaid could not §et the whoje of the'fees to whib'h he considered bimself entitfed, he"hrqiighi a'n'aotioh'to'-recover jhem, an<} ihqs the coiiimuniiy was introduced behind the scenes',!' ■ ' '' "'