THE LICENSING ACT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 30 September 1908, Page 5

THE LICENSING ACT.

THE ENGLISH MEASURE. A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION. Proas Association - By Telegraph-Co py rtg'at LONDON, Sept. 29. A quarter of a millton people demonstrated on Sunday in Hyde Park against ih' I.kf-nsing Hill. 70,000. provincial vXcni>imii.«tti by 170 upfcial trains, from all pai;& of the Kingdom; participating in the d< monsiraiion., Fifteen processions march.d through the I*nrk carrying banMrs. One hundred bands were piveent. Ninety speakers, including Mr Heaton, Mr H. H. Marks, and Mr Staved Hilt, inemb.rs oi tlie House Of Commons, from twenty platforms denounced tlwi Bill. A resolution was carried amid treniendous applause, protesting that the Bill would increase intemperance, violate the rights of property and interfere with the reasonable liberty of the community, , The brewing internet tsecured: thtv excui?>ionus;s at excessively cheap fares by guaranteeing die railways against lonv The "Tinus" i;tat< s that the demonstration was a remarkable example of skilful organisation, but a great majority proÜbted in perfect seriousness. •'The Daily News" ears that -In? processionisiis were chk*iiy free trippers, poor hirelings, and victims of drink.