PUTTING DO WE SLY GROG SELLING.
INVERCARGILL, September 24. At the Police Court to-day Fanny Hall, a boarding-house keeper, was fined by Mr Poynton, S.M., £100, in default two months' imprisonment, for sly grog-selling. The evidence showed that prohibited persons had been in the habit of frequenting the place and obtaining liquor. The evidence in the case was obtained by a strange policeman going to the house and representing himself as a jockey and afterwards as a deserter from a ■warship. He stayed in the house 12 days, and was s\ipajlicd with liquor. Defendant had pre-
viously served a month in gaol for a similar offence. Dr Anderson, the resident surgeon of the Wanganui Hospital, is at present an inmate of the infectious ward of that hospital, being a victim, to measles. It wiU be a really valuable experience for him. Tho Oamaru Borough Council has, by resolution apologised to a ratepayer for libelling him, and also resolved to refund him £2 2s, 1 solicitor's costs incurred for consultation as to his right of action for damages. The council used strong language about the ratepayer for supplying water to a neighbour who had no supply ; and it turned out that he liad been paying full water rates for both premises.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 54
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210PUTTING DO WE SLY GROG SELLING. Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 54
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