TEMPERANCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 674, 30 January 1885, Page 6

TEMPERANCE.

THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE. The annual meetings of the United Kingdom Alliance vere held in Manchester. The annual assembly of the General Council, held in the Friends’ Institute was presided over by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart:, M.P., who said he had no brilliant record of Parliamentary proceedings to lay before them. He wished to ascertain from that representative gatherin'* how far they were prepared to go, how much screw they would put upon their members, and then he would know how to act. The financial statement showed that the" receipts from all sources during the year, including the balance from the precedin'* twelve months, was £18,960 13s 9d, and the disbursements £17,282. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. Sir Wilfria. Lawson was re-elected president. Mr _S. Pope, Q.C., proposed a resolution which hailed with pleasure the declaration of the Home Secretary on Bth . May, that the Government accept the principle that each locality should be empowered to determine, amongst other things, whether any or no licenses should be issued within its boundaries. At the same time the resolution expressed the unshaken conviction of the meetiijcr that any legislation intended to give effect to this principle must fall short of its object unless it conferred upon the people in such localities unrestricted power to exercise a direct veto on the liquor traffic. Mr W. Hall (Derby) seconded the resolution. Mr Benjamin Whitworth, M.P., contended that on the temperance question Mr Gladstone had not done his duty. The motion was adopted. Mr Alderman Fansh (Chester) moved a resolution demanding from the Government a measure embodying the direct veto; An amendment was submitted

by Mr Russell (Dublin) affirming that the measure should have precedence of all measures except the bills for the better representation of the people, on which the Government were actually engaged. An addition to the original resolution, to the same effect, proposed by Mr Raper, was accepted, and the resolution as amended was passed. COMFORT FOR SMOKERS-

Dr. Richardson says :—“ If cigars are good they produce dyspepsia quickly. The action of the drug on the blood is very pernicious—it is driven in upon the heart and kidneys, lessens their power, but increases their work.” “The boy thinks it is manly to smoke, because his father, his Sunday school teacher, and his minister does so.” “ When God had finished the creation he declared everything he had made to be good that is, a finished and complete work ; still he had not provided man with a special organism for imbibing the vapors, of the tobacco-pipe, nor yet for digesting the poisonous juices produced by the smoking or chewing of tobacco.” —Lambert.