Our Resident Magistrate has made up hia mind, and rightly too, to punish drunkenness severely, but we don't think he will ever be so hard on a man as the Greeuock magistrates were when they lined the driver of the mail gig £'& 3s with £3 8a costs, for drinking a glass of whisky. The poor fellow could not pay the amount, so he was imprisoned for one month. The nobbier might have been heavy but the punishment wan heavier.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1162, 7 March 1874, Page 13
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79Page 13 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 1162, 7 March 1874, Page 13
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