Widnes Examiner. — 1904-11-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting of the above, was held in the Wesleyan School on Wednesday night. The night was taken by A Bennett Esq.,of Warrington,who gave a very interesting paper entitled 'A glimpse of Garden City." Mrs. R. Garnett was in the chair, and at the conclusion, the lee turer was cordially thanked for his efforts.  lII.—WHO WILL PAY THE TAX TO THE COMPENSATION FUND? The "Licensed Victuallers' Gazette" says that the trade will pay every penny of it, and the new tax will never be a burden to the community. But I know better. Every new tax that is imposed has to be met by some re-adjustment of prices, and it is the unlucky consumer who has to pay it in the end. How is my friend the driver going to raise his extra thirty pounds a year? Will he not charge more for the hire of-his [Continued from. Page 2.] ! horse and trap? Will he not raise the price of his bed. Wesley Guild Formed at Sankey Bridges, room and sitting-room, and charge more for your food? object of inaugurating a branch of the Wesley , Will he not put some more %rater with his whisky and With the Guild in connection with Sankey Bridges Wesleyan lower the quality of his beer? And if he does any of Church a social gathering was held in the schoolroom ' these smart things is he not passing on the new tax to on Saturday evening. The Rev. R. Wilkins Rees pre i the consumer and taking it out of the public as the tax sided over a good attendance. The method of conduct- I gatherer has taken it out of him? ing the guild meetings wg,s fully discussed and officers Some of the largest and best hotels in the kingdom were elected. Afterwards a pleasant evening was spent will find this new tax an intolerable burden, and it will in games Scc., refreshments being served. I confer no adequate advantages on them. They must Is Suicide Justifiable ? increase their charges for bed, and board and attendance, and horse-hire to make ends meet, and they will With the object of creating an interest in religious , take it out of the public somehow, so the good old conmatters the Rev. J. S. Hughes, pastor at Hill Cliffe 'sumer will have to pay the tax at the finish. Baptist Chapel, has arranged to set aside one Sunday Investors and speculators are fighing shy of investeveningm in each month for the answering of religions lents in licensed property just now, and the "Licensed questions which have been asked him by the members Victuallers' Gazette' is not far wrong when it attributes of his congregation. One of the principal questions he this to the glorious uncertainty about the working of the new Act. The publicans moved heaven and earth had to answer on Sunday evening was "Is suicide justifiable" and he replied most emphatically that to secure the Act, and now they have got it they are it was not. By quotations from newspaper not sure whether it is going to be a curse or a blessing. cuttings he illustrated that even the persons who took their own lives, and who left documentary evidence behind them, realized they were doing wrong and prayed' for forgiveness. Moreover it was not justifiable on Advices from Teheran state that Alajor J. Douglas account of the suffering it caused to others. For those military attache to the British Legation,and Lieutenant faced with financial or social ruin who were tempted to Lorimer, British Vice-Consul at Ahwaz, while travelling make away with themselves he would give the advice in the Baktian country were attacked by Luis brigands. which Johnson gave "Go away to some place where , They lost all their baggage, and Major Douglas was you are not known and there start life afresh." Let wounded in the hand. Lieutenant Lorimer was shot in them follow the example set by Cain who went into the wrist. No other details are to hand. exile and there expiated the sin which he had corn- 1