[Communications to'r (Ms column must be addressed to " Tho Prohibitionist" care of Editor of W airakapa Dail*,]

The annual meetings of tho United Kingdom Allwnce wore held in October in • circumstances at. once significant and suspicious. After long waiting and travail, one of the great political parties has adopted the policy of the Alliance; and the third and crowning confirmation of that adoption was pronounced by the speech of Mr John Morley from the chair. What Sir W. Harcourt had said, and Sir George Trevelyan repeated, Mr Morley bag re-affirmed at greater length, and with more careful particularity. His speech, which occupied fifty minutes in the delivery, and which appoared next morning in the columns of the newspaper press all the country oyer, bore in its construction marks of careful premeditation. Nothing ap peared as if excogitatod impromptu; nothing appeared to have been altered or omitted from- the original design. The elocution was clear, deliberate, and emphatic, All could hear, and all who heard could understand. The speaker made it plain beyond all possibility of dcubt, that ha was ia complete accoid wMi the Alliance on the three cardinal points of its legis lative policy—lst, that the liquor traffic in districts should not exist if tho people living" therein did not ; desire its 2nd, that the people should express their opinion by ft vote directly on the issue before them j 3rd, that no conditions, of compensation should accompany and embarrass the public decision, As Mr Morley holds, and as the Alliance has always insisted, tho Local Option shall be complete—direct, unfettored.
