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REPLY TO "GENERAL GORDON."

" Man bein" reasonable, must get drunk." Bvko.v. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l greatly rejoiced when I learned from your columns this morning that the intrepid soldier General Gordon was still in tho flesh, and can only wonder that he has been able to preserve) his iiicoenito during his visit to Waikato, for had it been known that he was amongst us, he would have had an erithusiustu reception. But I cannot help regretting that, during his brief stay here he has been misled by certain scandalmongers and gossips into nuking the assertions he did in tho letter. We all know that Cambridge is an exceptionally sober township : with fi.c Churches, a Good Templar L-nlgi>, and occasional visits from the Salvation Army, how can it be otherwise? Still tht-iv, are, as a matter of course, a few descendants of the Anglo-Saxon race, who believe in beer as a beverage, am', prefer a social chat, over a friendly gl iss to indulging in the cigarette, of commerce, playing lawn tenuis or "spooning." Well may Mr J. C. Firth write about tho decadence of England if the Britisher of the future is to be the immaculate (!udi\ The men who fought at Cressy, Agiuconrt, Waterloo and Trafalgar were not trained on weak tea and cigarettes. Agiin, as to tho "accursed traffic." Is a respectable hotel-keeper, conducting his hnsiness in a stiaightforward way, to be branded as "accursed" because lie happens to sell beer and whisky instead "f dealing in adulterated groceries or shoddy clothing? We have already roau the good old book, and know about the '"uiote" and the "beam." My friendly advice to " General Gordon " is to pluck out the beam without delay.— Yowrs truly, Anglo-Saxon. Cambridge.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2583, 31 January 1889, Page 2

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REPLY TO "GENERAL GORDON." Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2583, 31 January 1889, Page 2

REPLY TO "GENERAL GORDON." Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2583, 31 January 1889, Page 2

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