AX INFORMATION DISMISSED
WELLINGTON*, January 31
Mr Riddell. S.M., gave judgment to-day in the case brought against Whittakcr, bookseller, for having; sold what was alleged to have been an indecent picture, entitled "Sleep," publish™! in (he Lone Hand Magazine. The magistrate held that the picture was not indecent, and diimKsed the information '
According to a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, on Sunday, January 19, by 11 o'clock in the morning, there were about 4000 men and women surf-bathing on Coogco Beach, iust outeidc Sydney.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 40
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