SUNDAY TRAINS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7977, 1 February 1897, Page 3

SUNDAY TRAINS.

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g I a > The Bey. John Hosking has made tho wonderful discovery that if a landlord fails to provide pilgrims with intoxicating Jlinuors on demand during prohibited hours he shall be fiaod £10. The rev. logal s'udent finds relief in one or other of three headings—lodging, meals, and accommodation. It oannot be uuder the heading of the first two named, and as to the lasr, it may be an elastio term, and might mean anything fros3 a chuck-out to the loan of a £6 note, but it woiild take the imagination of the inarohioness to squeeze a long beer out of it. Seriouely, the Bey. Mr Hosking is utterly wrong- I'his aeatjon does not apply to hits contention, nor does any other sootion in the New Zealand Statute-book, 'ihe rev. writer says that he ia no lawyer. Then why on earth doaa he attempt to argue upon legal questions? Let him go to a solioitor {aa in the interests of your readers I have done), and obtain an authoritative opinion, and I will talk further to him, but not otherwise. ... ~ However, I cannot conclude without acknowledging the coraplimont the rev. gentleman pays me in saying that 1 am interesting. '.Ihat has, during the many years I have had the honor of being your Hastings correspondent, been my end and aim, aud I am glad to have been so far suaceseful as to win such a recognition.—l am. &c, YOWB COBEHSPOSDJiOT.