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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9091, 27 June 1888, Page 5

At the meeting of the Baptist Union in London in April last, 1400 delegates being present, the Rev. W. Glover, of Bristol, moved : —"That the assembly agree to the following memorial, to be sent to the Prime Minister and the Indian and Colonial Secretaries :—'Your memorialists have learned with astonishment, indignation, and shame, that British authority has introduced the system of regulated or licensed prostitution into the Indian Empire, and va>- : ous Crown colonies and dependencies, and whereas such a" system must inevitably be •antagonistic to the work of Christian missions, which the Churches of Great Britain so strenuously support, your memorialists humbly . pray that you will immediately take such steps as will secure the abolition of the said system in the places above referred to, and thereby remove what your memorialists regard as a grave stain upon the honour and fame of this professedly Christian nation He wished to acknowledge with great gratitude the action during the past year of the Colonial Office—not the Indian Office— taking steps which had already abolished the Government support of vice in eight out of the twelve or thirteen of our colonial possessions. (Hear, hear.) That it would be abolished in the rest he confidently believed." The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. A. H. Baynes, secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, writes that his committee have put themselves in communication with the other missionary societies in England, with a view to taking united action in the matter, and adds, "I feel certain that the Government will have to give way, and to remove from the statute book a law which is hateful and obnoxious."

Men who work about gasworks are not subject tq epidemics. Whoever now covers their footpaths with coal-tar to prevent fever will gain another advantage when the web season sets in : neither grass nor weeds will

grow thereon.