A POLICE RAID AT GORE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12737, 10 August 1903, Page 5

A POLICE RAID AT GORE.

SEIZURE OF LIQUOR.

(Pin United Tjibss' Association.) ■ ■( .' ■''GORE, August |9.

Spme excitement was cawed in Gore last night by, tho police .making a raid on a boarding-house conducted'by Jamw Holland, AS'hich • place lost its lioenso wit-h iho enforcement of prohibition. The raid urns made, by Detective M'llveney, Sergeant M'Kerßie, . aind■'.: Constables Quin and Scandlett. Tte detective's viaifc was ficaroeiy expeotcd, and ho found his way into totrft without divulging his wheToabouAi. The polios ato reticent, but I learn a. seizure of come rnqguituro was madj, comprising a big caso;of.stout, a case of ale, a small keg of beer, several demijohns of other "strong tack," half a, dozen.bottles of whieky, and bottles of beer and wfne. Tho police appeared on the soone and entered the bar, where'a '" riymph of the corkEorew" presided, and whero a pandie light emitted a fitful gleam.'. Some of tho grog was found in tho bar, arid the -rest in various other rooms. The names of a number of persons mi the premises' were taken. Some were iireHcedto withhold this information;' ant! were threatened,,with arrejit"before divulg ; ing it. ' The now? of tho raid- quickly spread, .arid about 200 persona gathered to wateh the grog carted to' the police etatiori, End followed the proeeesion mournfully until the ltquor^vae.safely deposited under lock; ami key". Detective Jl'llveney is evidently not letting the craw prow under his feet' in regard to 4b'is, particular'branch of .work, as within •six weeks since the enforcement of no-licen«(e he has made two seizures—ono at each end. of the .electorate. '