Intemperate Statements at Temperance meetings.
TO THE EDITOB, Sib,— Our oU friend, "the gentleman from Dunedin," who is always to the fore when anything unpleasant has to be said about Invercargill, ha., I observe, been at it again, and reports having seen seventeen meo drunk within four hours on one Saturday afternoon in this town. Sir Walter Scott when asked to account for a very remarkable ghost story he had just told on no less authority than that of hia grandmother, conoeded^that the explanation might just possibly be found in the fact that his grandmother was an awful liar. The authority being described as "a Dunedin gentleman," are. we to understand that there is no drunkenness in Dunedin? — I am, &c, Tempebance in all Things,
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Southland Times, Issue 9574, 20 July 1887, Page 3
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