MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 1 February 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

» The Post of Tuesday says —Retnrns «howi,.g the quantities of liquor supplied to the Hospital during the month of Dnreialier and the pas'; year vnre laid More the meeting of the Hospital Cnmii'iUeH yesteulay afternoon. Dvi in# the last month 72350s • .H)r:i...ly, 464. -i of -i», 1 4670t or port, 262 z-i; 'diierry, .5 bottles of champagne, 2JS pints of stout, ami 16S£ pi its of ale \v:e supp nd. The extras for Christinas (imliuied in the a»>ove ri-tnru) were— 93>z of br-.udy, 12oz of whisky, 4(bz of ,'i: , 24<>z of port, 720s of sliei ry, 8 Itntt 23 of champagne, a id i '24 pints of alf. The quantities daring the past year weiv as follows:— Spirits ■ — 6<K) pints of brandy, costing £162 10s; 271 i pints of whisky, £54 ; 171 £ pints of j<iii, j827 15s ; total, 10i3 pirns, • costly £245 o<. Wine 870| p. us of | port, costing £"~0 15s : 28 pints of , claret.. C 3; i4pnt4 ofs'frr , :i 13s 8d;777 quirts >f champagne, f 2n« total, 246f>£ pints, costing .£284 8«8d. F-jiiieata iqao — 203 9 1 pin^ >, c. ! I t'3o ; 1559 pint- of stour, £ .'}. T;ie ■ :ivt'ni'i' J number of pafi.nt> Was 45, I and the avtra^r co«t of *np}ifviti.qf I them with liquor was 5s 3 i per head j p-i- w.-ek. or £13 14 1\ fo * .-• ■ I The total amount expended in liquor j tinriiiij the 12 months was ' *.oi > iji J 8. — Tin- Ciainn in saiJ that, to us ■ a I sporting phisse, he would baok '.he ! We-I!i:i<(t<>n Hospital as b -i ■»■/ ths i Urs^ost liquor l*oi snniin<j institrion iv j the woil I. I:i the Melbourne Hj3pi« til, with 163 i idoor patients, tim amount paid in ISS4 for win^s, heer, j &c., w;i>s £613 Id. In Wesmiister H. sptal, wilr 2145 indoor patients, the expenditure f'>i't'm com a 'dixies mentioned was £216 12s 6J. In the Manchester Infirmary the coifc p-r annum wis 9|d, in the West ami stor Hospital Is Id, iind in the Midd.esex Hospit il 2s 2d.— Mr Fwser sa.l he supposed the committee coald do nothing, as they were entirely in tbe 1 1 id* of the medical men. — Mr Diika obsei ved that if tie liquor hill inert' ised much more the committee .vjuld require to start a distillery them >Vves. The. Rev Mon'Agu ViUiers, preichin^ recently in Enifland on the DisestaMishmoiit qn< j .'tion, said it nas neces&xry and it w>,s rii^ht to J^tVni the temporalities of the Church, .'lth* entreated 1m h^arern to fi^ht t i>ui ri<jht motives ani not for the sake of self interest, money, or positiou only. Disestat»lishuieut, wonld trcniradotisly cripple, the work of the Churc'i At home and abroad, but even Estab ig iment would be b>nj»ht too dearly if it were purchased at the expense of truth. Looking, however to tiie perhaps not dim and distant future, Mr Villets ask> d what Churcli men would say to the appointment of hishops by men wio regard the Cradl? at Bethleheiu as i " the central superstition of tbe world." i DiS'-st.aUisbineut with all its evitj 'would. In* intimaed, b« preferable I » the nomination b;" Radical Minister; ! of Erastian liishop:; who would sap th« foundations of the Chimb. " B.uier the spoiinar of our goods thai he saciin'ce oi truth.'* The New York Dramatic News thin describes the staff of the RermU. — Anybody who knows anything a all about the New York Herald kuowg it , is at present condut-tedou wiiat may he called a basis of the strictest intemperance. That is, eveiyon« couuected with it, no matter in what capacity ut position, jjets w Idly and helpltssly drunk as often ts he possibly can wi bout doiiii? perrjanent violence to his teu ure of office. The intellectual department of our fsteemed contemporary has always got a head on it, so fo speak. When the Managing editor returns to a l»rief mte» val of sobriety, bit junior next in rank proceeds to * g«l lull ' as speedily and thoroughly as he can, and so on, and so on, until, from tiie top of the ladder to its lowest round, the lo:igg;iuiutof iuOxication has been completely run." Don't die is thk hocsk.—" Rough on Rats" clears ou rats, mice, bet ties, roaches, bed-bugs, fties, ante, in sects, moies, jack-iabbits, gophers Kempthoriie, r rnssoi and Co. Agents ChrHUinu\.*h,

•• 1.H....H Os lUts."— Clear* outrats, • ni.-e, flies, ants >»-"d-bn (S, b -.stales, i'lSfH-ts. skunks, j ick rabbits, gophers. D-uo^istg. K<*mptliorne, Prosser & C>.. Agents, C'tfistohurch Paob \V(.odcock'9 Wi^d Film hnv f-.r thirty y^trs belt the, first place in tin v ;-l \ a< i:i efsotntl anti lot >■ t-» in'li-.'e"'-ti i, winl on the stmnneh, Vii.nisn^s. al l h'l co«ii')Uints arising fr«»!n disordered >»totri*\ch, '> >w;ls, or liver. Tonic, mvigomtin^, and purifyingr. th»y f'»nn the Iwst t"»no1y "xtinf, juH may l>e taken l>y "Id qnd v »tvi" wit l i eo/ial '»eiiefit. — I*. l*d., 2i. o'-., 4s. 61., family B->xus Us., "f all o'iemi^ts. Pi-.iorietor Page Woodcock, Lincoln England