CHRISTCHURCH ACID DROPS

Oxford Observer, Volume V, Issue V, 26 May 1894, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH ACID DROPS

BY BOBIN GOODFELLOW.

The great topic of conversation is the Unemployed difficulty. The Mayor' has been very active m providing work for some of the aged men, on thie banks of the river. These old men past ordinary work have done much to make the river more attractive yet there are growlers who lift up their voices and howl because the old fellows cannot do the work like professional navies. I should like to put some of these over-fed snobs on the job for a day or two to awaken a little charity m their hardened breasts.

A week or two since I promised you . some particulars as to the conduct of that singularly courteous journal the " Prohibitionist " but I am now prevented. When I wrote they had announced some " startling revelations " las to the way the Rabbi made. his lectures m favour of the "drink traffic. 1 ' Intimation of his intention to start an action for criminal libel restrained the clerical editors especially as they found that their subsidy to an amenuensis of the Rabbi's was a bad investment, the said individual ; having saught fresh fields end pastures new. , -. . , .* # * .•*''. The speilers nuisance has -.been~before the magistrateargr-etty frequently. A tew/px mouths sentences. have scar*xA a, lot from the town. . #•■# # ••.-#.'■ The Premier was m town for a couple of days and deputation after de-

putation waited on him about all sorts of subjects. MrW. W. Collins introduced most of them but Mr G. W. Russell and Mr W. W. Tanner had their share. In fact the .only local member not active was Mr G. J. Smith This gentleman seems to imagine that a representative's duties only begin with the opening of parliament. Even on prohibition questions Mr T. E. Taylor acts m his place while he confines his attention strictly to the arduous task of drawing his screw. Truth had a letter calling attention to his long sleep. # * # # * Another prominent question just now is the deseased meat and the necessity for public abattoirs. The Press has raised the ire of some of the Church people by a remarkable straight article against the gambling at church bazaars. . It calls them bluntly "running gambling hells"