Bargoed Journal. — 1905-09-02 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LIQUOR COLUMN.  ~ME.M•aR  Thomas George Tattersall, plasterer, was executed in Armley Gaol on Tuesday for the murder of his wife at Wakefield. The story of the crime is a horrible on, and ne,ld not he repeatel, though the message sent out by the cui;.• it is worth making widely known. Wziting to his brother-in-law before hia execution, Tattersall made the folio-typing pathetic reference to the part drink had played in bligh'ing his life :—" It ought to be a lesson to all that drink; it did me, being pla.:,ed in this position because it is th: ,e.nae. As you say in your letter, what a gooi lad I was when not in drink. It i RO true." Another lesson comes from Blackpool, which furnishes but one more illustration of the sad havoc drink is making in many lives. It is the lesson of William Livesey, of Blackpool, who was mauled and partially eaten by two young lionesses and a lion, at a slaughterhouse used as a hospital for animals belongiog to the Blackpool Tower Company. According to the evidence given at tile inquest, deceased, who had been drinking with other men at the Ducie Hotel until eleven o'clock, and left with two pint bottles of beer which he had puxhasecl, made his way to the slaughter house, entered or stumbled into the cage, and was found mutilated alongside the two broken beer bottles on the floor of the cage.  —:o:  A curious complication has arisen at Birkonhead with regard to licensing matters. At the annual licensing sessityls in February, the borough Lice.s;ag Justices formulated certain conditionf., to which they required the licensees to pledge themselves before renewals were granted. The local trade organisation (declined to accept these conditions, and applied to the Court of Kings Bench for a nilndamus to restrain the licensing bench from enforcing the conditions. The latter went from the Divisional Court to the Court of Appeal, where the trade appeal succeeded. The justices incurred heavy costs; and, there being no fund under their control from which such costs could be paid, applied to the Town Council, who, at a meeting last week, authorised payment out of the borough funds. The Licensed Victuallers' Association has served the Town Clerk with a writ, to an application to be made to a Judge i chambers for an interim injunction to nstrhin the Corporation from making such a payment during the long vacation; The application came before Mr. Justine Beay. After about half-an-hour's .discussion in chambers, the Judge, it is understood, granted an injunction %tit the trial of the action or further order.  —:0:— The High Moveable Conference of the Indepmdent Order of Rechabites has concluded its sittings at Aberdeen. On behalf of the directors, Bro. Griffin moved :—" That the conference is of opinion that legislation to allow of the Sunday closing of public-houses in England on the same lines as in ScotlandA.nd Wales, is an immediate necessity, and should be no longer delayed." Bre. Richardson, Northumberland, hoped that something would be done to get social clubs also closed if the public-houses were to be closed on Sunday. The motion' was carried. Bro. Bennett moved: " That this Order protests against all proposals for the State or Municipal control of the liquor traffic, and is opposed to the creation of any kind of public monopoly, whether by a public. house trust, or by any scheme of company control for the regulation of the sale of liquor." Bro. Lewis said the temperance party in Bristol was fighting the public-house trusts tooth and nail. The motion was carried, and the Conference also accepted motions calling upon members of the Order and all responsible citizens to demand as a condition of their votes the sepport of a rn-asure to enable the ratepayers by direct vote to prevent the issue or renewal of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors in their respective localities, and calling upon the district executivcs everywhere to ascertain the opinons of all Parliamentary, municipal, or other candidates, in their respective divisions on the liquor question with a view to making the members' votes more effectivelilla ;It*: it.: it t fiiii 0. roll