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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 12

Writing to tho Feilding Star concerning a recent meeting in that town, " Fishmonger " says : —I say still, as well as I could judge, there were two to one at Isitt's last meeting holding up their hands against Prohibition. I did not know there were 18 prohibition orders taken out, but that shows how active the police are, and accounts for our seldom seeing a man drunk. And I still say Feilding has very few convictions for drunkenness. I reckon a man a " lazy busy-body " who will not do any real work, but goes round with a long solemn face and black coat, and pokes his nose into everybody's business. The Rev George Grubb, who will be well remembered by our readers as an evangelist preacher of the Church of England, who conducted missions in this Colony, has (says a London correspondent) come to the conclusion that the straight road to heaven is not via the Church of England, and has 'verted to Nonconformity. He has been received into the bosom of the Congregationalists and re-baptised at Christ Church, Westminster Bridge road, by the Eev F. B. Meyer. This way of putting the matter may be open to correction. The Kev F. B. Meyer is a Baptist, but a year or two since accepted the pastorate of the Congregational Church referred to, on condition that a baptistry was put in the building and that he was not expected to practise baptism by sprinkling. It is possible that what Mr Grubb has clone is to become a convert to baptism by immersion, and has put his views into practice. The following from the Nelson Star is gurely worthy of the best brand of Bumbledom :—A recent recipient of charitable aid, to whom no further assistance is to be given, was referred to by a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board as a man who " feeds too hard." Another member remarked that both the man and wife were as " fat as butter." There arc some Aldermen Ctttes still left, evidently.