Policy of the Party.

A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition Colonial Council was held on October 9, to review the situation consequent upon the rejection of the Liquor Bill by the Legislative Council. The questions to be put to Parliamentary candidates were reconsidered, and it was resolved to stand by the principles already approved by the whole Temperance Party of the Colony and mainly expressed in the Bill introduced in Parliament for the Party by Mr M'Nab, M.H.R., in 1895—via., (1) The enactment of the national option provisions of the Government Bill, which have now been twice passed by the House of Representatives, except that the issue shall be determined by the majority of those who vote; (2) the majority to determine the issue in local option also; (3) club charters to be subject to the local option vote; (4) every form of license other than publican's and wholesale to at once cease to be lawful; (5) a wholesale license to authorise sale from one place only, and within specified hours only; (6) all license fees to go to the Public Account, and all expenses of administering the licensing laws be paid therefrom; (7) the strict enforcement of all laws relating to the liquor traffic; (8) the enforcement provisions of section 33 of the Act of 1895 to be made to apply to the King Country and all prohibited areas; (9) liquor selling in the Houses of Parliament to cease; and (10) the legislation necessary to secure these ends to be sought early in the first session of the new Parliament. The following resolution was also adopted :—" That this Executive Committee of the Prohibition Colonial Council protesta against the attitude of the Legislative Council in relation to moral and social reform generally, and the Liquor Bill in particular, and maintains that some reform of that Chamber is urgently needed."