CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7005, 7 May 1891, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

TBE'EYWt)JP : OLTiBS. To the Editor'of the Colonist. ~ Sis,— l think our Temperance frieads should jbaye. devoted their attention first to tfao ClalJß, whiqb, itf the opinion fof:many are .ten times imore .mischief, than: the pabUoAioases. ; Read the! newspapers, and * you. will find thai many bad oasea of gambling fto.d gr«u immorality, arejconneoted witk Olabs.^ Thefe inslitotiona are tuining r many young men in .this Colony, for. though oor. ; jpung men are nGt fond of drink, they are >: of iport, and lota of themundulge in gambling. Thefeia?tita(ion» ought to pay a lioenSe like public-houseß, and be under the same law and polioe supervision.: Mr W. Hind, Smith addreßring a mfetiDg at She : Young Men's Chtwtiin Asaooiation, at Aacklandj the other d»y, Bfid :— " A young .man was discovered •almost starving and; in a most destitute condition, by the Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. The latter fed and clothed him,- .and that young man sow occupied one of the most respeotable positions as a relief st&tionmaster on the • SouthMatern line. . (Applause.) Another young man had come out under 17 years of age, with "j .a letter^ of recoramendatign to. the Secretary Ot the Association. He did not deliver that . letter,; evilcompanionships were formed, and thai young man was led< astray. He warned them that one of the greatest evils of the colonies was that terrible eiu of gambling. (Applause.) He believed it was ruining more joung men tban^aay of the other evils. SJore that young man of whom he spoke bad been three months in the Oolony, he was induced to take that whioh did not belong to . himx The result was imprisonment for six months, By the a3sistanoe of the Secretary of the: Asspoiation, he made another start, .but he again fell into evil company, arid now that young man was in prison for three years, and he (Mr Smith) had a letter in his pocket from hia anxious mother, asking him to find &§r boy. and to tell her where he is." ,; . Yours, i&o, .-:■..■ . : . ■ . PABENT.