SLY GROG SELLING.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13752, 18 June 1913, Page 2

SLY GROG SELLING.

For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the Masterton slygrogger is peculiar, so says the "Wairarapa Ago," and continues: —Sergeant Miller recently visited a house in which four dozen of creaturo comfort had boon procured a day or two previously. Ho asked what had becomo of it. Tho owner of the house declared to having consumed nine bottles himself in one day, and to boing assisted by.-a lady and gcntloman friend to dispewo of about another dozen on the follow'j'ng day. "But where is the balance?" asked t'ho sergeant. Tho householder conducted him proudly to a room in which were stored nineteen bottles, packed in straw and carefully capsuled with tinsel. The sergeant called for a cork screw which was immediately forthcoming. Bottle after bottle was-opened, but each contained nothing more intoxicating than a quart of water. ■ Tho man could offer no reasonable explanation, and so ho was hauled before the. court and fined £5 for-keeping liquor-for sale.