SUNDAY DRINKING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13748, 10 September 1908, Page 5

SUNDAY DRINKING.

—- - *m A TRAGTC SEQUEL. Per Press Association. i DUNEDIN, Sept. 0. At the I'almerston South Magis- • trate's Court to-day William Scott ■ Muir, licensee () < the Junction Hotel, • Dunbeck, was charged with spiling liquor on Sunday, August 23. Muir did not appear, being laid up in the Oamaru Hospital. Mr Crisp, for the defendant, pleaded guilty. Tho evidence .showed that a number of young men resident in the district visited the hotel on Ihe Sunday evening in question »nd s had several drinks. On the way honn . ono of them, Ross, vva?} thrown from . his horse and killed. Mr Hutchison. • S.M., s;:irl the open way in which the v liquor was supplied on Sunday was indi[i cation that the law in other respcel" - u jis not oi^erveti, and the present offence w;is not solitary. For tho bread* defendant was fined £10 and costs, and the li"en,sc was endorsed.