A WARNING TO PUBLICANS.
[BY TEIiKGRAVII. — PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] Timaru, Monday. Twextvmak Wilson, licensee of the Melville Hotel, was fined £5, and the conviction was endorsed on his license, for allowing an unlawful game to be played in his bar last. Saturday night. It was proved that men were playing Yankee grab for drinks. The Resident. Magistrate held this to be an unlawful game. One point in the defence was, that the defendant was not aware of it, but it was shown that he was in and out of the bar for drinks for the rooms, and the Resident Magistrate said he did not believe the denial of knowledge. The police were informed by a man who swore that one of tho players was cheating with false dice, and a man was convicted of it last Monday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9370, 21 May 1889, Page 5
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