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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1675, 6 April 1904, Page 63

Here is an extract from the Parish Magazine of Woodhorn, near Morpeth: “We have no teetotal society in connection with this parish church. INor is there any attempt to coax or cajole peoplo into soberness by concerts, speeches or hymns. A better plan surely than all these weak devices is for a man who has a drunken neighbour to thrash him as being a scandal to the neighbourhood, and to thrash anyone in the home who drinks immoderately, whether man or woman, son or daughter. If seine way like this were adopted we should boon hear of fewer drunkards, tie are suffering from softness.” One of our grand old men of science is Sir Archibald Gtukie who, though now in his 70th year is still nard at work lecturing and studying and writing on his beloved geological subjects. Since the days of Hugh Miller geological science has had no more luminous literary exponent than Sir Archibald who has certainly found more sermons m stones than any man living. Sir Archibald was connected with the Geological Survey from which he retired as director-general for the best part of 50 years.