OHINEMUTU.
Ohinebitjtu, April 27th. ■ An important decision was given in the Resident Magistrate's Court here to-day re supplying liquor to_ Natives. The police instituted casp against the barman of the Lake House for supplying (drink to a halfcaste. Mr Brabant, R,M., dismissed the case, on the ground that the Outlying Districts Sales of Spirits Asfc djd t)fl& apply tog fralf.castes living in European style, ajid that ifie Act only applied to Maoris and halfcastes living as Maoris. In a case brought against the Palace Hotel the police were unable to prove the sale of spirits to the Maoris, and the case was dismissed. A third case, against the Rotorua Hotel, wag postponed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1589, 6 May 1882, Page 10
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