THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND TEMPERANCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3502, 27 September 1882, Page 3

THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND TEMPERANCE.

[To i'ae Editor of the Daily Tele»eaph.] Sir, —In your issue of last evening I observe a short paragraph from the London Times in which the Bishop ot Lincoln is said to have written some nonsense ahout temperance and the pledge to the Mayor of Gritnsby. Perhaps, in justice to the Bishop, you will be good enough to give bis repudiation, as published in a later issue of the same paper, as follows :—" To the Editor of the Timee. Sir, —A paragraph having appeared purporting to report the contents of a letter from me to the Mayor of Grimsby on the temperance pledge, may I beg the favor of you to state that I have never written any letter to the Mayor ofGrimbsy, and that I entirely disavow the words ascribed to me ? May I also take the opportunity of making an appeal through you for the Church of England Temperance Society in this

diocese ? I am Sir, yours faithfully, C. Lincoln." It has been well remarked " give a false statement a day's start, and it will be hard for the truth to overtake it," and we can well believe that the absurd forgery will be published in many papers which will not also give the correction. Trusting that such will not be the case with the Napier Dailt Telegraph.—l am, &c, T. B. Harding.

September 27, 1882,