KAKARAMEA.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 118, 12 October 1896, Page 2

KAKARAMEA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) A very good audience, which included several ladies and some members of the Patca Prohibition League, assembled in the Town Hall on Friday evening to bear Mr Patterson’s address on Prohibition. Mr A. H. Williamson, chairman, briefly, introduced the speaker who bailed from Kansas. Mr Patterson opened by saying that be was astonished to find that while nearly all Now Zealanders would like to go very few bad ever been to Europe, and be attributed this to want of money. In Kansas the people were in much better circumstances owing to their having had Prohibition for so many years. He then gave a rather lengthy history of the colonization of the States and the settlement of the West by “ prairie schooners,” after which he returned to his subject and gave some instances of the results of the excessive use of strong drink. A good deal of bis lecture must have been interesting both to Prohibitionists and supporters of the liquor traffic, and for one who has spent all his life in farming pursuits ho certainly spoke fluently and well* At the conclusion Mr J. Hawken proposed, and it was carried, that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to Mr Patter--1 scm for his able and interesting address.