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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1200, 1 March 1895, Page 10

Sir J. Palmer Abbott, Speaker of the New South "Wales Legislative Assembly, has been telling a reporter that during his recent visit to New Zealand, at a race meeting in a certain town, there was a liberal display of teetotal drinks for sale in one of the booths, but, he says, they were mostly whited sepulchres. Acting on the advice of a friend, he went to the booth and asked for ginger-wine " from the right bottle," wh«n he was supplied with a glass of excellent whisky. He afterwards met a police sergeant, and ask6d him if it was possible to get any intoxicating drink on the course, but was informed that only those known to the boothkeepers could hope to do so. When the women gained the franchise, he adds, they made a great descent on the sale of liquor, hence all this sly drinking. Four thousand sheep passed through the Ballance township the other day en I route to Palmerston. The drivers follow this route? to avoid payment of toll on the Gorge road, hich on this particular mob would have amounted to <£18«