Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MANDAY, JUNE 10, 1895. GAMBLING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5047, 10 June 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MANDAY, JUNE 10, 1895. GAMBLING.

Joaxna JJailme, a writer of tlio lust century, produced a series of plays on the passions, assigning a passion a to each individual dramatic effort. '« Wo oneo tried to read one of lliem wliieh was devoted to jealousy, but |[ could not get through it, the one 1 strong flavour of Hie piece being a maddeningaud monotonous. We were tl reminded of Joanna Baillio last week by perusing a number of the ii Ghrktiuu Outlook, the organ of the S Presbyterian Church in this Colony, which devotes practically the whole of its issue to a tirade against A gambling. All that can be urged '" against this : vice is very ably put forth in this manifesto and the legislature, the press, and even the J" clmrcbes,come- in for some very '■ scathing criticism. We do not know \ that tlio ordinary mortal with a .! little common .'souse stands in need t | of special instruction on this subject, ji Gambling is generally discredited tt J by.colonists; and the more vicious y< aspects of it are discountenanced, hi Ji'cw, |)ei'liaps,willgOfniite:isf(ii'{is the Christum Outlook, which appears' A to include fairly harmless sports and to pastimes in its anathema, because as the trail of the gambling serpent } v can be detected amongst them, Wc \; do, however, agree with the Outlook that the Legislature should not i u patronise gambling, that it should re not license lotteries, and derive Vt revenue from totalisators, It is i'. rumoured now that tlio Legislature 1" will be asked to consent tosomo " c gigantic lottery for working off the u ' properties of the Assets Company, J,'" and if an immoral project of this c 0 magnitude can bo forced through tli Parliament we should be disposed to H believe that the spirit of gambling ]"' in tlio community has reached a PJ dangerous stage of development, !?.! With the majority of colonists we • hold that sports and amusements J r , are, within due limits, necessary and jj, often beneficial forthe rising geuera- be -ion.- We are not prepared to sur- Ni render them, because a certain nc amount of gambling is associated al with thorn, but if any way can be ''£ shown by which gambling can be , dissociated from tliem, we would heartily support it. We will not say whether the Legislature, the press, or ■ the pulpit sets the worst jj s j example,'but we have a right to call ff j, upon tho legislature to set the best o n< one. - . fivi

Standing in the doorTrutu way of ,a densely Stranger packed .Court-house, Than we caught one glimpse Fiction, of the prisoner—a tall broad-shouldered fellow, with head erect, whose imperturbable self-possession suggested a none of iron. Who was ho lib? The heavy drooping moustache and clean-shaven chin, gave him a martial appearauce, and the stately postaro recalled an ideal soldier, whose broad bosom bore a Victoria ,Ci'oss. Still the man on whom wo looked, was Sommervillo, the murderer-and yet the sight was not altogether repulsive. The feeling generated, was rather one of inexpressible sorrow, that such a splendid specimen of God's manhood should, by one rash act of utter wickedness, have placed himself below the level of the meanest and vilest creatures iu the land.-