TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2167, 29 March 1870, Page 3

TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE TBESS. „ ~ lß ! —The leader in Saturday's issue of the hjttelton Times " is a journalistic curiosity. I «would be interesting to know what tho *ntar reaUy meanß t jj e p U blio to infer, or | *aat particular aspect of the subject he in- j to discuss. . Ho cleai'ly intended something on the sub'«ct of the drinking customs, and this laudable Attention has no doubt been induced by the powing public opinion on the question, as «1 as by the recent lecture delivered by the fioa. *&? Fox. He seems, however, to be of school and has partly been samed away from, the subject by tbe thought «« a veritable Prime Minister should by any Possibility become a teetotaller. The implica«on that total abstinence induces a spirit of f&nce °r has that tendency is hardly inpaous. The Hon. Mr Fox gives his reasons .oj* 8 * 61 *" 1 ? that the wines and beer as now j£* to the publio are not the gifts of the Jeator— this writer as much as states that *y are—but he prudently goes no further. c concluding paragraph is meaningless; as *o of the moderation stamp and teetotallers k ° eTer **** m *k° same boat on this quea*he much abused teetotaller invariably SVf 8 msona for his position. Have the thW** 1 ** 00 " reformer " of Canterbury done TKEXOXJJULS&.