The Liquor Traffic

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1307, 20 April 1905, Page 2

The Liquor Traffic

Australia B. ptissd in Alcohol

Prew Afisooistion,—Copyright. Sydney, this day, Mr Dbakin, a membor of the Federal Parlianiout, addressing the New South Wales Alliance, said fctii/, if gyor a country was baptised in iloohol it win Australia. Th'fl tli'ink problem was one of thoso groat issues which Federal and St ite members could fight aide by si 3e against, and tho hght culled for united and determined eilort; Despiie tlie good work of tho temperance bodies the consumption of liquor hn'i nicr *a-tod in Now South Walos and Vict n'ia during tho past ten years, and h' et itnplol the totnpjranoo p-ogress in New Zcaand,

The fir«t maternity hospital m tho colony for the preservation of infan'.life is 10 bo lin Wellington, Governmeni has securrd a large building for tbo puipojo, and the institution is now being file I up, In course of timo sinilar hos-. pit ih will bo established in Auckland, Chris church and Dunedin.

We regrot to n cord tho death, which J : 00lt plaeo yesterday at the hrspital, of ! Mr Willimn Duthio, a miner otnployod by I tho Waihi Oompanv. T'.e d-cmised had _ iinly been in tho hospital a few days prior , '0 tho sad occurrence. He was marri»d. ! #n d wan only 28 years of age. Dnaih was 1 '| ue ,0 an noutn attnok of typhoid, and the victim, we understand, was unknowingly working in the mino during t|'o earlier smgsy of tho fell di»ew. Ine decased leaves behind him a young wife, to whom ho was marriel lo"s than a year ago, Deep sympathy is felt for Mrs. Dutiiio in her very sad bitrcavemout. Mrs. flood, yf Tauranga Road, was a siiior of the docpijiid. His p irontß rcide in Auckland, and are ooming to V/alh tod J, The fungal will leavo the nMbnco of Mrs Hood. Tatimga liond, at 230 tomorrow (Good Friday) af'ernoon. A boon to flninanity—Mountain King Asthma Powder. Gives wonderful and refreshing relief in obstinate and chronio sasj? V:; Great Peppermint Cure, . for. Cough and Colds never fails, 1/6 . ■ : ii *;■ ;i