THE LIQUOR LAW. WELLINGTON. August 21.
In the Magistrate's Court Duo Millantewas fined £35 for sly grog-selling, and Joseph Paiggie was fined £2 for being found on Millante's premises* William NolandSand Joseph Macarfchy, c&argecl with hawking intoxicating liquor for sale, were each fined £25. The alternative for each of the three* chief offenders was fixed at one month'i imprisonment.
A shipment of 4300 bags of onions arrived in Sydney on August 6 from Japan. The Chinese merchants buy considerable quantities of onions, but so 6trictly is the boycott against everything Japanese maintained that they w:ill not buy a hap* of the imported bulbs, in epite of their excellent keeping qualities-
Another piece of Dickens's London, is being demolished in Fulwood's Rente. Holborn, the shallow basement of which is sa:d to- hare been the original of Fagin's thieves' kitchen. It was also a resort of Jack Bheppard. and at one time Bacon lived in ihe building.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 33
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