SUNDAY TRADING.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 86, 3 April 1883, Page 3

SUNDAY TRADING.

THE ILLICIT STILL CASES. CASUALTIES AT SEA. DEATH OF A LiTE M.H.R. [per united r-p.rss association.] Wellington, This Day. Circulars have been sent to auctioneers throughout the colony asking^ them to take steps to remove the disadvantages under which they suffer by " The Licenses Act, 1881," and hoping that they will bring pressure to bear that section 3 of clause 28 may be repealed as far as auctioneers are concerned. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Alfred Wakeford, landlord of the Bank Hotel, was fined 40s and costs. At the conclusion of the evidence Wakeford was committed to stand his trial for perjury. Bail was allowed, himself in £TOO and two sureties of £'50 each. Edward Shaw, of Wellington, has been retained to defend those charged with illicit distilling at Palmerston N. lie leaves for that district to-night. Dr/NEDix, This Day. Turing the passage of the Waihora, from Greenock to Melbourn , Copeland Jacob died of consumption. A. McDonald, assistant steward, was missed on 11th March. It is supposed he either jumped or fell overbaard during previous night. Auckland, This Day. At the inquest on Edward McMinn, late M.H.R. for Waipa, found dead in his bed on Saturday, medical testimony showed that deceased suffered from some internal lesion — probably r of brain. Verdict: Death from natural causes.