THE COLONIAL WHISKY BILL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2218, 25 September 1886, Page 2

THE COLONIAL WHISKY BILL.

11 T M)IK this heading a contnbutor writ* 15 ;: — "In spite <>f tht; depression and general cry of hard tunes we can find A.'!', .'500,000 annurtllv to spend in intoxicant-. Taking into consideration the fact that our population •, duly slightly o\ ( r half a million these fipwes are startling. It i- about t'4 pi i heart, -'tnd taking into coii-idriatinn tin fact that there are iriun\ total ao-tainir», be-idts many wimn u find ilul iii'n who do not drink, it would .in) mi t. .is .1 fuend calculated, to about f-'O j.oi head fin the hard and rmdt'iat'j drmktr-. This i- a pood subject for <i nioitilist, rind one c f the strongest arguments which could be made Use of by total alj-timnci; and pr>lnbitioni«t lectiiicis, If the s, ile of intoxicating li(|iiors Hto lie allowed uhj not peirnit colonial distilling? It would afford employment to a huge riunib l of people, besides creating a demand !"■>! bailey. Some ui'l »,iv, if that ul l c the, case it '\ >uld make liquor so cheap that diunkt'iinoss would inei.-a-e. An e\ew} duty equal to the picsent < ust'iuis duty could I>p uupo-id. 7'^ven if 1 quoi weie h.ilf th«i pirsp^.t pnee it would nia! ;■ no alter itioii m that ditection, for if men wnnf dunk they u ill hnd the money and cet it, no matlei what the pi ice may bo. By i>prmittm,» distilling a great deal of the \.ist sum mentioned would be retained in the colony. Add to this enorinoiis sum the ant.ual nit"i« st we send out of tht; country for oui public anil private debts, and thinking nn'ii will ask where it h K" ln l^ to end. If we an 1 to be allowed to dunk as much as wo lik^:, we may as well sujinly ou'-t hrs v i tli .i homemade .uticu 1 : it would at aii\ rate ha\e the merit of lvMn_r ])iir", wlmli is more than en be s lt id "f a ,;.•*, it iJiml <f the -tuff '.end "I in the coh ny undei the name of wiusk\, >nnn! hi u hicti is like a draught of fies',, diawu fiom the mli inal legions. On one i-ccas'oti w hui .i friend of ni.ne was liMupfon tin 1 \\\-t (Joi-t he v a^ "ldered to dunk a little brandy foj i s»n ere case of nulisposit (nil. Ht took about „n iirpciial t r l i-s. ce'tim!\ not iimie, \\ \t\\ tho result tint lv ni]i f ui -d .v bl'H.i vessel, and was -i\ months '/< tt>ii£ o\u it. l'iai.dy and he hi\ ' m .u b >u c'"-c acjuamt vices sinco I a'li not ' roti! ,b-tiMiej, nm am T wilting m I'mit intei.^t- tiion^h no one cm doul t tl c sDundne-s i f tl.t ?i punciples — but n I. 1 s i.t s'ko w»ie we wiuld not iiivj to ninntain -o ninny i-'vols, h i-pit.iK, and lunatic ,t«ylunis. Theie is a t;i.>'\ m^ feeling m favour of piolubitioM, and that it will jot obtain in New Z ' li I'm! ii mv {(.' I —t . 1 1"» The gups. tioii ot conipen • itioti to • iblicaiis w ill h.ne then to bo dei ,ded. The extreme prohibit'.nni-ts aie not m favour of it, but I think it would b<< \(iv !];)](! if, after allow iMjr tl'i'iii toc.uiv on \ Irti-ino-*- — mi a trreat nifinv c i-e 1 - fanly and hone-tv — for •-■« m i!'\ \ \i-. tin v -h'»uld bo --nddenly dij)ii\i'd of tneir linn.,' wi'h'iut at tnv i ite c«iu\,.oms tlii'.u f«-i the -ticks they unv no lonu'ei -ill. This, however, I is :v m ittoi of dot nl t > I c decided sh(,uld plohibition c* rr become 1 iw.

An irnn t-uv. r. 1 1 S 1 ice* hi^h, is to be ir<(t( (1 on f ho grounds of the approaching i\nis Intvi :i ifi in il Kxlu't lficn. The tower will he «mppor f ed by four pillars which v. 'll he burlier thin the towers of Xotio I) win 1 , v hich have ,in altitude of ■2 ( K) fi-ct The structure will co>t > 1,000 000, .iTiri will ho .-unnnMited by n. powi'jfiil cltMtiic liirht, whirh will ho visible, it is b- hevrd, is far .i> Dijon, ]'.)~ mil- s -.(iiKhf.ist of T.tiis. Tiil German Emperor-) recent illno^s w.is (,-nis((i by Ins profuse indulgence in <i ilch soup in id< of eny fi-h. Since the ptul of Miv tlio Emperor's physicians ha\o insisted on his swallowing nutritions foul ov<"iv two hour-, instead of waitinsr for liis ti\td mi'.il- Ru>h jrllirs, both s\\e(t and s.ivf.iy, tlio •.tiontrcst be« f-te.i, md coitrc 'md i-ii)yl is, ,ire t}io "pn k-ine-up«." with whnii his Majtsty recruits litmsi'lf. Ds-vi'iiK duil times, the Home Rule agitation-., and bo} cutting, li eland still «\poits lar^oly in nati\ tn products. In ISS4, the Emetald Tsle exported 24'),050 gallons of whisky to foitit^n countries, and to England -J.i'OO.OOO pallons The linen expoits to foreign oountnts amounted to £400,000, and to England £3,000.000 worth of the same textile was shipped. j The Tnaneka Times lias the following : — Tlio Wellington Ciicket Association liase recened a letter f ro n Mr Tennant, asking what terms they will f^i\ l for a visit of the Austialian Eleven. Tin? is decidedly lieh. We aie sui priced that ■ihe felloes should have the cheek to come to New Zealand after the ignominious licking they have sustained at the hands of the English cricketer?. Even the juvenile clubs gave them "slops;' and then to ask to be paid for " honouring" this Colony with an exhibition! What next? An eminent German has undeu'one tlio enormous labor of counting the number of hairs in heads of font ditfercnt coloi-. In a blonde lv found 140,400 bans ; in .* biown, 1O!),41O ; m a bla< k, iOS.UIi'J ; and in a ted one, 8^,740 What the red and black heads wanted in number of hans w.is made up, howe\ei\ in the i^iuiter bulk of the haii-> indi\ iduall> , and in all ptubibihty the m alps w tie prett) c jual in wti^'ht. It is to the tinene^s and multiplicity vt htns that blonde tie.ss^s one the iie!i color and silk like chataettr of t!uirilos\,a ciiLUimtance which artists ha\e mi lo\td to dwell upon. 1 Ms. Crown Pnnce created quite a sensitiou the othef day ut the Ko\al Hcs1 ital, Duihti, «luk- ho suddenly appealed as a patient. He Impeual Highness had hid an accident w irh a light and burnt Ims light hand Instead vt waitmi; for a do< tot to })c scut for the Prince bethought h'ii,s ( It tint he would be most quickly ai.l < fin lp-itly attended to if he diove si n_ht to the hospital This w a.s atvor''tn_'l\ done His hand, w Inch on « x.uinn ition pio\ "d not to ha\e bfun u-in_,ci-oii-U ni|nitd, was at one« ditssed l>\ tin" am t^r'dis, , »n a u t \ 'Hit Impel iil patient „ o-i b> in;; disi.nss t .], with Ins hand bound ii]i in black siik, ii-cti\td quite, an oxation from the midiei.d stmh nts w ho w ere pnrhiiing tiien studies m the hospital nt the time.