A Strange Objection.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 165, 10 June 1884, Page 3

A Strange Objection.

At Haltwhistle, m England, an application for the transfer of an hotel license was considered by the Bench. The Chairman, a clergyman of the Church of England, objected to the transfer being granted because the applicant had married his aunt. One of the bench remarked that it was not the applicant* aunt but his uncle's 'widow, but the Chairman insisted that the marriage was illegal. The Chairman adjourned the case m order to consider the legal points. This little incident opens up a wide field of research to those members of Licensing Committees who are anxious to extinguish the publican's trade. In almost every pedigree ihere Is a bar sinister somewhere, and it ■would be a c'arming exercise for them to study the genealogy of every publican m order to discover such ground for objection. But it can easily bd done, and we throw out the hint for the benefit of all concerned. fjßiVery publican is a lineal descendant of Cain ; Cain must have married his sister, as there was nobody else to marry, therefore every publican is disqualified. Of course members of Licensing Committees are similarly descended, but that's no matter. Sauce for the gpose is not necessarily sauce for the gander.