A CHURCH RAFFLE IN COURT.
SINGULAR ACTION* AT SINGLETON
.■■ • SisGIETOX, N.S.W., Tuesday.'. At the District Court to-day, before Judge Backhouse, a case concerning a church bazaar excited great interest. The plaintiff was P. Broai. He claimed that there bad been a raffle for a sulky and harness by throwing dice aba recent bazaar- in aid of St. Patrick's Church, and. that he threw the highest number, 45; the prize was c;iven to another person of the same name, holding another ticket. His Honor asked if the church had. the Attorney-General's consent to the raffle, and on being informed in the negative, he "said the whole transaction was illegal, and he did not see how an action could lie, but he would hear eomo evidence. The defence did not deny that tho plaintiff's was the highest throw, but maintained that it was the name and number of the other D. Brosi which bad bfcen called when the plaintiff threw, and that,' therefore, the other D. Brosi gob the prize. Directly the plaintiff went into the box and produced the butt of his ticket, the judge said the case could go no further, as the transaction was altogether illegal. Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. .
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 235, 2 October 1894, Page 2
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