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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 9 July 1872, Page 6

On the third instant a fire occurred in Hospital-street, Grey mouth, destroying a store and stable. Three hoi'ses also wore burned to death. The loss amounts to £7OO. Tim Victorian Parliamentary draughtsmen seem to manage their work much in the same way as ours do, and to draw the acts so as to

allow ample room for the proverbial coach-and-four to he driven through them. A Melbourne journal gives the following as an instance :—“ A curious evasion of the licensing law is now practised at the Divan dancing saloon, in Bonrke-strcet. To comply with the act, they close up punctually at twelve, and turn everybody out ; but at halfpast twelve the doors are re-opened, and dancing recommences, being then kept up during pleasure. It is a beautiful Licensing Act, ours.”