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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8664, 6 November 1899, Page 3

| TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WHATAUPOKO RIDING. I BEG to offer you my services again County Councillor for your Ridin and should you do me tho honor of retnr ing me, I shall endeavor to do my best conserve your interests, as heretofore, well as to advance the settlement ai pro&pcrity of the district at large. Remember date of Election— Wednesda' November Bth. WILLIAM COOPER. 81 TO THE RATEPAYERS OF THE WHATAUPOKO & KAITI RIDING, Cook County Council. T ADIES & GENTLEMEN,— By request of several ratepayer I am ft candidate to represent your interest in the County Council, and, if elected, , will, I can assure you, do you juatico ai far as I am able. Yours faithfully, 104 E. P. JOYCE. TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIAPU. T ADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— ■ m I have much pleasure in announcing that I am a candidate for the honor of representing the constituency in Parliament at the ensuing Election, and that I am contesting the Election in the interests of the Opposition party. I shall take an early opportunity of explaining my views in the various centres throughout the Electorate. Yours faithfully, 7^ C. A. FITZROY. TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIAPU. T ADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I have the honor to announce that I shall be a Liberal Independeut candidate at the ensuing Election to represent you in the House of Representatives. Yours faithfully, HUGH J. FINN. October 11th, 1899. 844 GENERAL ELECTION. MR CARROLL'S Committee Rooms are* now open at the Offices formerly occupied by Messrs Rees and Day (Albion Buildings), where all information will be supplied with regard to enrolment of eleotors, etc. Committee meets every evening. 124 EVIDENCE OF AN ANGLICAN BISHOP THAT PROHIBITION DOES NOT PREVENT THE S.tf,E OF LIQTIOE OR DIMINISH INTEMPERANCE. Prohibition in Vermont. * *i A Hawera correspondent who wrote to the Anglican Bishop of Vermont (a State which has for many years been under a Prohibition law), has received the following reply : — "Bishop's House, Burlington, Vermont, August 4th, 1899. My Dear Sir, — YOUR letter should have been answered sooner, but that I have been greatly pressed with various kinds of work. I should have no hesitation in urging you to resist a Prohibition enactment. It doesn't prohibit : that is the verdict from experience of all Prohibition States. Vermont is one. It can be pretty effectual in small places, where there is comparatively little need. In large places it is a hideous failure. Anybody who wants can get all the drink he wants— and the worxt, for directly you attempt to prohibit you forfeit all power of regulating. It encourages hypocrisy, and (to my mind) most of all it tends fo break down the sanction of all law. Here is a law which no one professes to regard as really binding. Why should some other law (the sixth, seventh, or eighth commandment, for example) be regarded as any more obligatory ? Moreover, it is creating an artificial sin. Not long ago there was a controversy as to which was the drunkenest city in America, Portland or Bangor — the two chief places in Maine, the prominent Prohibition State ! In the Vermont Legislature, members vota and speak for Prohibition— this is their duty to their constituents— and then drink for themselves. If we had not an absurd law of parity of representation for every township, whether its voters number ten or 15,000, the law would be repealed at once. The little places that don't have to face the evils created by Prohibition keep it on the books. Of course there is this to be said :— Prohibition prevents the open temptation to the casual passer-by (on hia way to and from work) of the corner ' public' / feel sur« this is balanced by the additional provocation to drink (to young fellowa) by the mere fact of its being forbidden, when it ia likewise felt that there is nothing intrinsically wrong. It is like going out of bounds at school. Then, of course, it confuses drinking and drunkenness. If the first is wrong, the second is no wronger. — With every good wish, very faithfully yours, Arthur C. Hall, Bishop of Vermont." ■ nHHE price of COKE from Lo _L and after November r • Ist is REDUCED to . . 21 H Eighteenpeuce per ~r H at the Works. Oh! — V COKEmakes bright, clear, -^ ' J hot fires, free from soot and QC h dirt ' • J Directions : LLJ A Break up the Coke to about -. the size of an egg, put in a PI from ashes, co as to allow ot fi a good upward draught. X"( GISBORNE GAS CO., CSJ Limited. 83 I , Kia Ora Butter Factory, 1 Makaraka. i __ _ I HAVE this day appointed Messrs Bennett and Sherratt Agents for the sale of BUTTER from above Creamery. « thos. McGregor. Oct. 16th, 1899. 89( NOTICE OF REMOVAL. TG. LAWLESS, • Land & Estate Agent, Has REMOVED from Lowe Street into more central premises in Gladstone Road, ta. Next to D. M. Orr's Store, "sa