CORRESPONDENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2317, 9 October 1908, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Correspondence on public matters is welcomed at all times, but it must be distinctly understood that, this journal is in no way associated with the opinions of its correspondents.] NO-LICENSE. [To the Editor.] Sir, —Your .correspondent “Britisher” reminds me 01 those figures of “Aunt Sally’s”’ you see in shooting galleries, where you knock them down with balls, but alley always come up smiling, wanting another smack. I should havo thought that the ending of tho “lambing-down” case would have been enough to make him take a back seat for life. He-wtas the first man to jump into correspondence on tho subject. He wanted it probed to the bottom, and he got it. Now he wants no liquor, 110-license. Well, I have no doubt- but he will get that too if he waits long enough. But let me just remind him that you must crawl before you can walk.. He is great on quoting Scripture, so 1 sin sure lie must be a good rain, but what about the verse where it says, “Who hath woo? AVho hath sorrow? Who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the _ wine. They that go to seek mixed wine—look not thou upon the wine when it is red. At tho last- it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” I should think" if “Britisher” has had his eyes open and been about the streets lately and seen the same number of drunken men that I have seen, or noticed the numbers that have been contributing to the revenue of the Dominion through the R.M. Court, ho would think it was about time we had 110license in Gisborne and so remove temptation from tlioso wlio evidently cannot resist it. From the way tilings aro shaping just now I would not advise “Britisher” to invest any money in pubs or breweries. It would bo much better invested in a dry goods store. —I am, etc., “TRUE BRITISHER.”