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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 447, 10 November 1904, Page 5

Housemaid wanted for Commercial Hotel, Clyde. The Star congratulates the Government, both branches of the Legislature, and the people of New Zealand on the passing into law of the Licensing Bill. The majority of the people, it says, will probably be of opinion that a wise policy has been pursued in avoiding the possibility of friction between the two Chambers, especially as the House was not called upon to concede any point of vital principle. For one things the cynics will not now be able to comment ironically on the fact of there being one law for the ordinary citizen and another for the Parliamentarian, and it may be safely conjectured that the business of the country will in no way be prejudiced by the operation of the 10 p.m., closure at Bellamy's "Nor have we any tear to shed over the fate of the bona fide travellers, for whom * mala fide' would in nine cases out of ten be a more appropriate epithet. 'Un wept, unhonoured, and unsung," he will soon vanish from country roads, or only wander as a sort of baffled ineffectual phantom, seeking Sunday liquor and finding none."