TEETOTALISM DON'T PAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 62

TEETOTALISM DON'T PAY.

Some insurance offices gave bonuses, while others gave larger profits to the abstainer, and it was well known that if they wished to purchase an annuity for an abstaiuer the . cheapest place was the post office. The temperance offices had discovered that this class of business with teetotalers did not pay.—Exchange. .lORS, IS IT TO CONTINUE? Canon Wilberforce, recently addressing a crowded meeting of ladies at the Hampstead Vestry. Hall, in connection with.the local branch of the Women's Union of the ' C.E.T.S., said there had been an enormous increase in intemperance during the last 30 years. The Registrar-general's report showed that deaths from intemperance amongst men had increased 58 per cent., and amongst women by 100 per cent. PUBLICANS TO FURNISH A CARRIAGE FOR THEIR BEST CUSTOMERS. Mr J. E. Austin, in an admirable communi- ' cation to the Croydon Times, shows that , while there had been 389 " drink" j eases before the borough bench during I£9B, \ there had not -been a single conviction recorded against anyone for making these 389 persons drunk. Mr Austin naively adds: — "It V>as been suggested that ' the trade' , should adopt the usual custom of other , trades, and send homo the goods bought at j their establishments. One firm of your advertisers state that they deliver goods pur- > chased at tlieir establishment by their own vans in five counties. The publicans might deliver, say, within a ladius of one mile. How much more pleasant and safe it would be for their customers, while the policeman's lot would be a happier one, and the general public would escape the difficulty they now ' have in dodging the man struggling along, ' and lurching about under the burthen of the . liquor purchased at the pubHchouse. I make no charge for the suggestion."