ONLY INCIDENTS OF THE TRADE THAT MODERATES VOTE FOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2362, 1 June 1899, Page 62

ONLY INCIDENTS OF THE TRADE THAT MODERATES VOTE FOR.

At a London Police Court the wife of a carpenter was sent to gaol for neglecting her children. The husband stated in evidence that after he had destroyed his wife'? clothing to prevent her going out to obtain drink, she visited a publichouse with only a- table cloth wrapped round her.

Alderman Phillips, speaking .-;t Guildford, 6aid he was passing a pubfcho ife the other clay, and heard a disturbance. Going nearer to the place he saw that the potman was turning a poor woman into the street, and for what reason? The woman was crying out to tho publican, " Give me back my husband ; don't serve him with beer."

A TEMPERANCE VILLAGE.

Some interesting facts have beon published respecting the temperance colliery village of Roe Green, in Lancashire. Five-and-twenty years ago tho houses of the village belonged almost exclusively to the Bridgewater trustees, who employed most of the men. Today, out of 140 houses, 81 are inhabited by their owners. One temperance association has a .membership of 270, another — the Band of Hope — 286. There is a co-operative store, the property of the village, yielding a profit of 3s in the' £. The church and Sunday school have been built by the workmen themselves, at a cost of £2700, and while, in the United Kingdom as a whole, one in four of perfewns over 60 years of age receives parish pay at least for a part of the year, in Roe Green there is not a single one over this age receiving pauper relief. Clearly there is something to be paid for a temperance village. — Home Word".