MISCELLANEOUS.
♦■ Temperance continues to make fearful strides. It has even extended to the British Navy. A few days ago a seaman asked for leave to go ashore. The first lieutenant took the oppor tnnity to read him a little lecture on the way of spending the leave, and in some sort to make it a condition that sobriety he observed. "I don't mind giving you leave, Martin," he sail: " bat keep sober and come on board sober. You are a good man, aud what's the use of getting drunk?" Martin stood hesitating, on which the first lien tenant repeated his question. "Quite true, sir," said Martin ; " but then what's the use of me going ashore if I don't get drunk f— Vanity Fair.
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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1606, 28 September 1885, Page 3
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123MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1606, 28 September 1885, Page 3
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