Mr Knott delivered his second lecture, the subject being " The Pow er vt II ibit," to a good audience m St. George's Hall list night. Mr Tudd was in The chair, and he said he hoped that Mr Knott would recehe as good a reception in Oamaru as had been given to him else where. Mr Todd said : At a meeting of temperance workers held in Auckland on the 14th October, 18S9, Sir Win. Fox in the elrur, it was resolved, "To agree to recommend Mr Joseph Knott as a tem perance lecturer to the good offices and hearty support of temperance organisa tions throughout the colony, believing that his lectures will be a great help and stimulus to the cause in any place he may visit." Mr Knott, after a few appropriate re marks said his father had been a moder ate <U inker all his life, and when the lecturer was a boy he used to send him to jbtan spuits to make toddy tor him on going to bed. His father died in London at the age of 1)4, but nothing would e\er tempt him (the lecturer) to become a drinker. The moderate drinker, Hnough force of habit, was found to be the haidost Crt.se they had to dual with, as he would siy thai no injuiy has e\ or come to him through diink, and these moderate drinkers were \ery hard to get to sign the pledge ; but he wanted all to sign for the &ake of others, that they might not become drunkards. The lecturer gue a number of striking instances of how bid habits had been acquired, and how hard it was to breik them off. .Such an m stance w<is that of the doctor who told his patient (who had a cancer) that he was leeding it by his use of tobacco. .After the doctor had performed an operation, on calling next morning to see how he was progressing, he found his patient propped up in bed with pillows having a smoke ; but this was not so bad as the man who took strong drink. He knew a man who had a brilliant intel lect and in whose coinpmy it was a plea sure to be. 