Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 684, 2 November 1876, Page 3

Correspondence.

|y Our Correspondence columns being ivi~ partially open to all matters of public intetrst, tee cannot be identified with the opinions therein mprmed.

Sir, —In your local column thii morning, a sutmieut ia nude wim Mereuce to Mr VV. ISei'oun, whan, is apt to mislead. Mr Neilsoii wu in the Scots Gieys at Balaclava, » heavy oavalry regiment, and ooDtrquently they bad no part m the cole brated " Charge of the Light B.igatie," »8 •wig by T«unyaon, but, iheir work w«« ia the charge ti the Heavy Cava'ry, when oar mt-n out their way through the Husai&a hor*« liko a whirl-wind, ami made the enemy feel their blows Were like their moito, Nulla becunda — I am, November 2nd, 1876. [Out correspondent thoulcl loaro news pu| er correction! and latin alono. Lie .misquotes us, (and mcorrtctly gives th* motto of tho Scots Greys. We said nothing about the '' Li^lit" Brigade, but afiokn rimplj of the Balaclava chargia — Ed W T.

Bishop Haotikld on Toial AbstbnKNCE. — At tbu kitting of the Diocesan Synod in Wellington, the Bishop aaid that 'He recognised that drunkennt as was » sin. Ho couaideml a drunkard a beast, and acorued a man who so degraded himtelf below tha level of humanity ; but a man who drank wine in moderation when he required it was simply dung what his Creator intended he ehonld do He ahoold never »gree to the Church of England as a corporate body taaotivuing the inauguration of any syatera or organisation to deal specially with one tin. He did not agree with stioh aooietie^as that vbioh it wia propoied to eatanlish, for h« considered it utterly repuutiint to the principles and }de»a of the Church of England that m»n sjhoqld he p^6 under a law whtn he cftuld vo| b§ iwftaenced bj priuciple. He oouiidflu 4 tb« duty of the Church— an/i it bad nMny du^ie« devolving upon it—the a^ty ofeT«ry ol^ rgyman and every meuiUer o| tbe Church, «fas to try to promote real •iaoer« religion, by every poMtbte tneaas in bit power, bu* not t > resort to sttoh sebctaes as thi«, whioh hf could only regard as evplrioal, tad rvsetilbling tbb efforts of ftn. i^U^U'it

p\y*ician, who, instrml of nttc-npting to •estore tho wb> 1j system cf » pati nt, re«ort*<l to a plaster here and ft Hilvf there ocuio what w. r> roa'ly ouly the svmpt ms "f a g<nf»al diso-dT. Drunke iDfißs was not the only vice the d u oh hart to cont ml with, nor was it a wo<- ' protirne'ib vne t i»u otbor vict ■in 0 liniaSS, * * Theru »«ro otl.er vijts vthicti *vtr« »s ptrnioioiis in tbeii cif«.cti as drunkeunts w»s to igooifi their existtncc. * * * Why not f-rmai aseoeiation to pub down extiav»ganoe in diess, *ncltli»t, nipbtafier night »t'e-id-«Doe at .ho theatiH, aud o h«r c il , wlnoh, to my mind, »re quite »• perntciou* »s ©xoessive drinking ! Theatre. g"in<? w«s juit as bad m going to iho j.ul)l.c-hou»e. for m >»-y \*»s in that, way •pent whioh could not be affutde-1, »n>l which p-i>pl»* hud no right to upend, to tb»» iinpovribhment of tlieir butouera and Inkew."