THE NO-LICENSE MEETING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12377, 16 December 1905, Page 8

THE NO-LICENSE MEETING.

There eeemc to be 4 decided different orinion in iho camp as to-tsiff correct view to take of the meet loeaff option poll. Here m Ohrist<fiunJh Ifcii supporters of the cause hold what desbribe as a "celebration of vietwy f *»,| which subsequently tuna out .'tojf bi largely a, demonstration * i-ltji honour of their defeated pion. In TTelliflftton we' bai»| the Rer. F. W. Isitt, who nriM is the best authority on tie mitting Chat "the No-liceuae party; w*ll " disappointed everywhere, as thay y/jjM "anticipated big victorias in maay.'dfil l " tricte." The returns are not yet'ecS plete, hut eves if they show that lipnP | votes were oaac for No4ioenw \ continuance, the fact remain* 'ihatf 'm \ numoroue distiiote .whioh Ver» pnfjpw > in favour of No-licen» or Xtdaotii | public opinion bae eoneidembly cb&H Threo years ago No-license wwi "tdfM \ in' five diatriote, and m>M\tiiw)d "j»| | miXh. In. three oases 1 upset, and in no.-oaiftv«f'>ttjrij [ tiiree eleotomtee, . which" , haotj| brief experience of/ | even ■ reduotion been ' 'carried 1 year, whlle'm one ,of lioenae distriota we see 208 Vote* polled in favour of "'th* two of tioQUfeg.,'- AgftitMi>ti«»^tv«^a thia year only three ,new^ ; one»^' K 'TfS of these kad at|u|| previooa'poll, and one' Grey Lynn, a | Auckland, which $onwniixm 1 hotel. . .Three yearn i I carried hx * nine diefericti. V ; '; In "at : }mik | four esthete tbe'e^iiwnb'ha«||B been repeated, and ia'anMherVdplli reduction haa bees only' two.and* then.four hmm the No-lie«!i; ; ii|g can only boaat of two ceatwe. 'These as one of the apeakem laet night| there has been no' adrano* in -with their opponent*.' .*_ The' : party, ifc appears , to, aesertiom about , tSeir oppos)aatirlUM| they can prove., , Mr lett, for states that the lken&ißg burton have polled "this y*« **>• bi Vote they would ever reverend gentleman ia fact an predicting the «renta yearn' hence.' It haa "tho trade" have now strength th'rcHighout; the would be quite as aaf« CbairmaWf remark Urt night, " No-lic*nee patty oould sot "another fifty votes ia CflWstotelr«l||| that they have reached •The. trade", wero thk year ganiwd than they have, b*en in especially in first time they have, met their on eomethine like equal respoot. But it ia extremely "the trade/ , with all their would boart that they M-^ but fifty of the opponents of in Chrietchurch, the ; pculiibil are laying tbemeelves' open7||l|p surprise *if they are " that the other side caa J ||g no more in tho future than it Jrte';!|| oampliehed this yesr. The poll depends upon many things, but ftfJ|R suit, ac we have asid' tefovs/iffin largely with "the trade." reoeived in many quarterns whst _ejw|ffl to a vote of confidence, end it their interest to show that juetified it. ' $SS