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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 41, 15 March 1884, Page 5

In a somewhat boastful " manifesto " which he issued prior to his most recent expulsion from the House of Commons, Mr Charles Bradlaugh announced his intention of presenting himself at the table of the House " ready m all things to obey the law, claiming m all things to enforce the law." In this document he says : — " The House, if it thought me unfit to sit, might have sent to the Lords a bill depriving me of all civil right. It has not done this. It leaves me the title, and defrauds my constituents of the service. Conservative members say that I am alone, that the country is not with me ; so much the worse for them if this be true. It is inexcusably dishonourable for a great party to rely on force majeure against one man. But they know better than this." Alluding to the various persons who had brought lawsuits against him, Mr Bradlaugh scores a decided "point" when he speaks of "their employer and leader, Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., bearer of an old name, chief of a good West-country famiiy, and descendant m a straight line from that sturdy baronet Sir J. Northcote. M.P. for Devon, who wrote that those were cowardly traitors to this commonwealth who, by mere force and without law, should keep a representative of the people from his seat." We hear that several members of the Roman Catholic body m this city have been urging on their clergy the advisability of the establishment of a temperance organisation, under the aegis of the Church. It is pointed out that one of the earliest and freatest of temperance advocates was 'ather Matthew, a Catholicjpriest, and it is thought that while other Christian bodies are endeavouring to decrease the evils of intemperance, it ill becomes the Church of Rome to remain passive. The railway reformer's theory is that reduced rates will lead to increase of revenue. The reduction of grain tariff last year has resulted m a loss of £60,000. Argument is ofnoa-Vailehere.