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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 23, 2 July 1894, Page 13

Our tip of last month that Colonial Treasurer Ward is the heir-apparent—so to speak—to the Premiership, has booh poohpoohed. The prophesy will bo fulfilled soonor than most poopie imagine.

Davy Gain is a member of tho Wellington Temperance Club. The other night he told tho members that:—“Tho conditions of membership were respectability and good moral character. ’’

Wellingtonions had plenty of opportunity of seeing Mr. C. P. Skerrett at his best as a criminal lawyer during the last session. His address to the jury in tho Twist forgery oose won the admiration of all who woro in Court. C. P. Skerrett is a young man with a future.

‘ The Stoutites were foolish enough to anticipate victory in the recent tussle with tho Government. They evon went so far as to arrange the personnel of the now Ministry. The plums were to bo divided among the following Sir It. Stout, Capt. Bussell, Messrs. Hutchison, Mitcholson, Duthie, Carroll, Now man, or Bell.

About that whisky mill at Gollan’s Bay. Tho fire-water was brought to town in milk cans. Whether it has been stored away to mature we don’t know exactly. We have a strong suspicion, though, that it has been mixed with popular blends, and is now doing duty under tho guiso of “ Bucliauun's” “ Dawson’s,” Galley,” &c.

Davy Gain, with the aid of a magic-lantern, has been inyoungsters into the mysteries of “ Ten nights in a Bar Boom.” Wbat a subject for fresh, innocent minds I A contemporary asks: “ Would it be a wise, a politic, a moral thing to give a limelight entertainment entitled ‘Ten nights in a Brothel ?’ And would any parent take his little girl to such a show in the far-off hope that if they over caino to bo touipted the very repulsiveness of vice might cause them to stop in a downward career ?”