The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-12-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DAWSON, J. P., who pointed out that so far as Middlesbrough was concerned the battle in favour of the Veto Bill had been fought and won by the temperance party. In Ida opinion the Bill did not go far enough. They should have total ;S.unday closing throughout the country. This had been an enormous benetit to Scotland, and he hoped the day was not far distant when a , a universal closing Bill would be adopted in England. He thought that the temperance reformers should go in for closing early on Saturday aiter, noon and not opening again till Monday morning.—MrsWhemt read a must satisfactory report , of the year's work done by the Ladies' Committee. The annual report was taken as reritL —The Kee. Prebendary Gents moved "That this meeting, whilst heartily rejoicing at the introduction of the Liquor Traffic Local Control Bill, regrets that it has been for the time withdrawn, and respectfully urges Her Majesty's Government to reintnehesi the measure at the earliest possible opportunity in ; the coming session of Parliament; and as this meeting knows of no matter which so injuriously 3 foots the welfare of the people of this country 219 the licensed trade Ss iIHOESEHILS, it demands for the people that control which the measure proposed by the Government would airord." tfe would have liked a great deal more, but as this was all the Government offered them they would be glad to accept it.\ There was one thing which Lord Salisbury had not gut, and that was a real acquaintance with the hopes and wishes of the people of this country, If he had bten very sueeinisful as is Foreign Minister he was not so sec.:ewe ful with home affairs, bemuse Ise had not mingled with the poorer people: and did not ender- , stand the temptations to which they were eviteised. When he said," Look at the better elasaes, there is , no drunkenness among them," he showed that he was not even fully acquainted with the people of that class to which be himself belorzed. It was impossible to bring the same influences to bear upon the poor as upon the rich. But men if the poor of Bug,land were only ass drunken as the rich their condition would be a very sod one indeed. It was a singular thing that during the strike, when the men were starving and bad to live to a large extent on charity, th • death-rate was lower and the average health better. (Applause.) If the gr,ater part of the social ills of this country , were to be got rid of the liquor houses mast be closed. The Government offered them a Bill which went a little way, and he asked them to support it.--Mr Pumping THORPE seconded the motion. Although not going so far Ai they could wish, he said it still helped them cm the way.— Other speakers also addressed the meeting, and the motion was carried unanimously.  Colonel Blandy, Chief Constable GE Perks, and Superintendent Butcher, of Farringdon, rtmumed their search on Wednesday for the body of the eetiond wife of John Carter, who was executed at Reading on Tuesday for the murder of his third wife at Watehfield. The perfect skeleten of a woman was found buried about a foot below the surface of the ground in the riekyard of Broa.dleaze Farm, where Carter was employed, and about one hundred yards from the cottage where he lived. The hearing of the charges of embezzlement against Councillor Nathan Molyneux, and of eon- ! eurrenee in the falsification of Ixdanciesheets against Mr R. G. W. Howson in connection with the Lancaster and County Permanent Benefit and Building Society, was continued at Lancaster on 'rueaday.—Mr John Hatch, a Lancaater builder, stated that Mob nous, in ocnxersatitm with him, acknowledged that the hooks had been falmined for three or four yearn, and that the amount of the deficiency was about C.ooo.—The healing was issfia adjourned.