WELLINGTON.
December 23. The Premier leaves for the South this evening, and will be absent a few days. The informations under the Gamiog and Lotteries Act against Sir William Fitzberbert, the Hon. John Martin, and two other gentlemen, for taking part in a sweepstake on the Hutt racecourse, were heard before tbe magistrate and three Justices of the Peace this morning, when tbe following judgment was delivered:—The magistrates think they must convict the defendants. They think the facts alleged are/proved, and that they are prohibited by law. They think that in a case like this persons likely to commit a breach the prohibited act would think it prohibited by nothing but the law, and therefore, as tbe only deferent is the money lost, that should always be sufficiently substantial to deter. In this special case they think that the eminence of position of the defendants, and tbe publicity and deliberation of the act, call for a vindication of the law. The defendants were fined £10 each. The Hon. John Johnston, who was one of the Justices on the bench, dissented from this decision.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3269, 23 December 1881, Page 3
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183WELLINGTON. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3269, 23 December 1881, Page 3
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