FAILURE OF PROHIBITION IN THE KING COUNTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1900, Page 2

FAILURE OF PROHIBITION IN THE KING COUNTRY.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I was much pained to see the personal, and incorrect attack upon the President of our Free Methodist churches. I have heard Dr. Hoskingdeliver his political addresses, and have read his political manifestoes, and 1 must confess that his views always appeared to me tempejrate, reasonable, and popular. Moreover, Mr French is untruthful in attacking1 on the fancied ground that he had attacked the character of the Rev. W. Gittos. The name of the reverened gentleman is never once mentioned in the sermon which Mr French is supposed to criticise. To hurl slander at 'the heads of ministers of relig'iou in the newspapers may be congenial to Mr French's proclivities, but is hardly the work of a Chiistian or a gentleman. As to the main question at issue—the failure of Prohibition in the King: Coimt|ry — Dr. Hasking- is quite able to speak with authority, after being- sent there by the Church with which he was then associated to preach the gospel, a.nd going through the district as a political candidate; bat when the character of Dr. Hosking- is attacked untruthfully, as by Mr French, and when statements are attributed to him which he never made, then I feel I must pretest.—l anij etc.,

.SAMUEL POTTS, Free Methodist minister