SLY GROG.
A' SHARP LESSON .GIVEN IN MATAURM,
DRINKERS ALSO PINED,
(Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL', last night,
Charles Humphries, of the Fortrose Hotel, situated in Mataura electorate, was lined fifty pounds and costs, for sly. grog-selling. The Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, said that it was not necessary, to prove that money actually passed or the liquor was consumed, if the Court was satisfied that a transaction in the nature of a sale took place. He entirely disbelieved the evidence of the defendant and his four witnesses, that the liquor • Was a gift. 'All the liquors were ordered to he seized and vessels forfeited in future cases of sly grog-selling in ' the prohibited districts, and unless in very special cases imprisonment Would be imposed on the first offence. Four men who were in .the bar drinking when the police entered, were fined two pounds each for illegally dealing in liqUor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 960, 5 August 1903, Page 4
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148SLY GROG. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 960, 5 August 1903, Page 4
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