Sly-grog Selling.
[BT TELEGPAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, last night. At Balclutha all theisly-grog sellers were proceeded against under the 1881 Act for selling liquor without a license. Mr Eraser, who appeared for the prosecution, said the attitude of the Crown was that Clutha was a no-license district, and the law Was being persistently and deliberately broken throughout the length and breadth of the electorate, 'fines being powerless to check the evil or make the people cautious. He therefore pressed for imprisonment in all the cases. The Magistrate said he would not shrink from doing ijis duty whatever his feelings might be. He Sentenced Paterson, Bain, Allan, McDonnell,‘and Vial, jun., allofwhqm had pleaded guilty, to ten days’ imprison* meat is tbs Dunedin gaol.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 16, 21 January 1901, Page 2
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