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NZ Truth, Issue 177, 7 November 1908, Page 6

Dr. Abramowski, specialist from the , Mildura Temperance Hospital; gave an address m Melbourne lately on "The True Cause of Intemperance." With all duo respect to the doctor, and his doctrines, we now fling down the gauntlet to say, m two words, what it took half the niglit to say. "The Thirst" is the true cause ot intemperance, the dry thirst ; and nothing but the thirst. What's the use ot haggling for hours over it? Judge Docker, of N.S.W., poses as a bit of a wit, and occasionally gives the Quarter Sessions lawyers and accused persons a sample of it. At the Darlinghurst Appeal Court on Monday last, You Ten and other Chinese appealed against a conviction for an assault. "The medical evidence," saM Judge ■ Docker, "showed that- a surgeon put one stitch m Ten's head. The old maxim said that a stitch j m time saved nine. Here it is evident i that a stitch m time saved Ten.."- I