SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9323, 14 January 1892, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FnoM Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland, January 13.

HOP BEER.

With reference to the new regulations regarding the brewing and sale of fermented hop beer in the colony, and as the result of the duty imposed by the Government, a number of the local hop beer manufacturers have decided to discontinue the brewing of the drink, and to manufacture instead an aerated hop ale. JUSTICE. At the Police Court to-day an application was made, by consent of complainant, to have a charge of larceny as a bailee withdrawn against a young man well connected. Mr Bisbop, R.M., said be would be_ no party to such a proceeding. The whole thing seemed to turn upon the fact of the accused person being well connected or1 otherwise, and. he held all men must be treated .alike in the administration of justice. THE CHARITABLE AID ACT. After the entertainment of the Barnardo Home mission musical boys, Mr C. E. Button,. formerly a member of the General Assembly, in presiding, characterised the Hospital and Charitable Aid Institutions Act as a "gross misnomer"; it should, he said, have been called "compulsory contributions to relieve the thriftless, improvident, and those who do not care to take care of themselves." It might be that charitable aid, as dispensed by the Government, did relieve the passing-wants of some, and that was a great thing; but a person who received a compulsory contribution by act of Parliament, and who claimed it as a right which a most liberal Parliament had bestowed upon him, had charity misapplied. In any of the local bodies to which.he belonged he had never agreed to the voting of a contribution under the Hospital and Charitable Aid Institutions Act without a feeling of indignation that they should bo compelled to contribute to what should be given from the heart for the love of giving. Shortly there would be 110 such thing as charity at all. RAROTONGA. Mr J. Moss leaves for Wellington to hold a conference with the Government about Rarotongan affairs and to come to some definite understanding "about his salary as British Resident. VALEDICTORY. I understand that the Northern Club are initiating a movement to give his Excellency the Governor and vice-regal party a grand marine excursion and picnic lo the Motapua or Motutihi during their stay in Auckland.