"TEMPERANCE WINE"

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1623, 30 July 1887, Page 3

"TEMPERANCE WINE"

Wellington, July 29,

In the R.M. Court Hlldreth and Son sued S. H. Webb, of Auckland, for £22 17f. The amount Is alleged to be due for wine purohase on the supposition it waa nonalcoholic, and returned as not answering the description. Plaintiff said be had bought the wine which was said to be pure juice of oranges after taking it himself. Some months after, when bottling it, he found tbat the liquor had fermented, and waa not a temperance drink. In one of the numerous letters that passed plaintiff said it had made a man drunk, and would have made the othera so had they not found it ont m time. He especially oomplained because Webb knew he waa a temperance rhampion and because defendant being " a man of religion " he bad no hesitation m taking hia word when ha guaranteed the wine to he non-Intoxicant. For defendant it waa urged Ih.t the wine was never guaranteed ; further that no spirit was used m the manufacture, and that it was ■hipped baok without his sanction and therefore at plain tiff's risk. The case was adjourned to allow the Magistrate to look over the voluminous correspondence whloh had taken place.