Terrible to relate, Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, the celebrated temperance doctor, is, if we may credit a contemporary, showing symptoms of backsliding. Writing m the "North American Review" on the causes of infelicity, he says :— " I am a total abstainer, but I am an honest observer also ; and I confirm from direct observation the old saying, that f wine maketh glad the heart of man.' What is wanted now is that the united science of the age should apply itself to the problem of giving the world a drink that shall make glad the hearts of teetotallei's without carrying with it any of the insidious and demoralising effects of the demon alcohol — a good, honest, cheerful drink, which on a cold night might be diluted with hot water, sweetened with a little sugar, and, perhaps, flavoured with the squeeze of a lemon, and which, under these conditions should have the effect of, for a fleeting moment, lightening the burden of existence, and loosening the chain with which we are darkly bound."
Three million sovereigns were coined m Melbourne last year.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 41, 15 March 1884, Page 5
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