DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 22, 26 July 1893, Page 4

DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir — Knowing your readiness to open yonr columns to the ventilation of any just grievance, especially when it is a cose of the strong against the weak, I have ventured to address you in reference to the very serious injnry I am Buffering nndcr in consequence of the action of the Wellington Licensing Committee in closing the Branch Hotel. It is only two and a half years ago since I paid JS4SO in cash, and inado myself responsible for another .£450, for the privilege of doing business in this hotel under a leaßO granted me for seven years at a weekly rental of J!7 10s ; and I entered into all this under the firm belief that I should have been allowed to follow my vocation in the premises so leased in peace and safety until the expiration of the term ; for I was under the impression that I was living under British rule, and was enjoying the protection and security to life and property we are all led to believe auch rule affords. But how terribly I have been deoeived in all this is only too plainly shown by the condition I now find myself placed in. ■Iho sale of my effects, which Lv jnat taken place under the right of sale I had *^i? Te ", « eonr ity for the balance of the purchase-money, realised .£l5O only, f o that my 4J450 and the cash I have paid off is gone altogether from me, and I am left a debtor to a considerable amount besides ; and, withont imputing anything wrong to the Licensing Bench, yet the effect to ma is just the came as if I had invested my all in some altogether lawless country, and I had been robbed and plundered by an armed band of brigands. The cause for all this misohief : the Benoh say the house is not required. Ihe greatest fault found was that there was toomuchdrinkingdoneinthehouse. Now, air, how, I would ask, are publicans to pay the heavy demands made upon them for high rente, high rates, license foes, &0., unless there is a good deal of business done. Again, if there was a good deal of drinking going on it show* there was a good deal of

business being ilonc. Italeo provos that (h house wan inquired, fwpecially an there was over 100 signatures 111 favour of the house retaining the license. I do not for a moment suppose, Mr. Fditor, that tho publication of this lotter will do mo any good personally, or redress my grievance in any way whatever, but I do think, sir, it is high time attention was called to the arbitrary and cruel way in which the licensing laws of New Zealand are being made use of to inflict the moat grievous wrong on Her Majesty's trusting subjects if they happen to bo publicans. And, in conolus.on, I will only further bay that there is not one of those gentlemen who took part in tho closing of the Branch Hotel who would not experience a sense of the most grievous wrong rankling in their breasts had they had meted out to thorn the same treatment they have meted out to mo. I am, &c., R. C. Bowden. Wellington, 20th July.

AUSTRALIA'S RETIRED CHAMPION. The popular retired Champion Sculler of the "World, William Beach, writes: — "I am pleased to inform yon that I have found St. Jacobs oil of great servico to me in training, having used it very suooassfully for the relief and cure of stiffness, oramps, and muscular pains. To athletoo in training I earnestly recommend it. As a household remedy, I may Bay that Mrs. Boach generally keeps a bottle of it by her at our home in Dapto, and it is the first thing used when any one of the family meet with any one of the accidents, falls, or bruises, the little folks so frequently incur." From fifty-five to sixty thonsand people are estimated to die from consumption annually in the British Islands, and more than four times that number were wholly or partially orippled by rheumatism before the introdnotion of St. Jacobs oil, which is now recommended by many eminent medical men as the riost^oure for rheumatic and other kindred diseases known to science. A GOLDEN RULE for DOMESTIC GUIDANCE is Always keep a bottle of St. Jacobs oil in the home. Its value in connection with the small ills of life, as well as with its greater sufferings, will surprise you. Wholesale Agents for New Zealand — Mbssm KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER & CO., Limited. A BETTER PROOF of the well-known excellence of the WATERBUHY WATCHES could not be desired than the fact that unprincipled dealers attempt to palm off cheap and inferior imitations as "as good as or better than the Waterbnry."

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