Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., presided in Exeter Hall on Monday evening at a large and enthusiastic meeting in support of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's resolution in favour of local option in the granting of licenses. Resolutions calling on Parliament to enact speedily an efficient local option law and thanking Sir Wilfrid Lawson for his labours in the cause were carried.

Source: The Illustrated London News, No.2255—Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, July 22, 1882, p.86