At the Warden's Court yesterday Mr E. McDonnell made an application on behalf of the Sheridan G.M. Co. for the Sheridan Special .Claim of 50 acres at Tapu. The ([round applied for included the Sheridan (20 acres) and the Federation (30 acres) Licensed Holdings, These licenses would be surrendered if a special claim were granted. A sum of i3OOO would be required to carry out the proposed important works and there was a good prospect of getting this capital. The warden said he would recommend that the application bo granted,

It is a strange tiling that people wko make a great profession of temperance in one mat ter only should very often be so intemperate in all others. It is a notorious fact that the professional temperance advocate has a habit of making very intemperate remarks from his «oign of vantage, the platform, where he lias tilings pretty much his own way. The latest sinner in this respect \v a gentleman who is earning his living in this town at the present moment by advocating something which he prays in Ins heart may never come to pass, because if it did his oc* eupalfrm would lie gone. We do not object to this gentleman earning his living in any way that siiila him, hut wc do object to his statement that avc had told a lie about him in our paper. All we have said about him has been gathered (from his friends and has been of a very flattering nature, If we have erred a little from the path of rectitude ft has been from a generous wish to do the "stranger at our gate" a good turn, and he uhould be the lastVt find-fault with us, It is quite a novelty to find a professional temperance advocate who undcr-estimates his importance, and the-discovery of such a ww (iw is as refuelling as it is uncommon.
