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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2321, 26 May 1887, Page 2

._„„„___«.__ The Sydney correspondent of the " Argus" says :—" Mr Burton Bradley, a philanthropic lawyer, has been stirred up by the Mount Rennie case to try and get at once some facts and figures about our larrikins. He finds that we have 257 lads in the city and suburbs between 15 and 20 years of age, who have no professed means of getting a living, but every evening this little army is recruited by 20 times its number of youths from the various factories and workshops who find no attraction at home, none in the reading rooms and lecture halls, and who hunt tho streets because they have nowhere to go and nothing to do. Ho finds that these lads earn more money than they know what to do with, and have time on their hands that they do not know how to spend; they have had no effective home training ; they havo no taste for learning; and there are very few cheap and innocent amusements in the evoning to captivate them.

If you are fortunate enough to possess youth, be careful in the handling of wine. In its moderate use— as in that of many other blessings—lie health and cheer ; but excess means misery and disease.