"Sly Grog Selling."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 112, 7 March 1885, Page 3

"Sly Grog Selling."

JL funny ease it reported from a country district. The owner of a small accommodation house in a remote part of the county went away from home for a few- leaving a lodger in charge ef th* a _jnremiseß._ la the. house waft an nnopened three*dozen case of; small bottles of porter. When the owner returned fee found that the .case had been opened- and 14' bottles extracted. lie complained of this, and insisted on being paid; f of the liquor taken. The lodger very, 'reluctantly squared the account, and then went off to the nearest Police Court, Mooe. 35 .miles away, and solemnly laid lv"ro formations for sly grog selling against his erstwhile host, treating each bottle which he had taken and subsequently"'paid for, as' a separate sale. The poltoeVa* by law required, at once went off Ifco iha titeged sly grog shop, and found the remains of the case of porter and two bait-bottle* of spirits, all of which they seised and removed. The owner, thai left without any liquor, Kent off to the ■ nearest public-house, some miles ajray .arid puchased a couple of dozen of tie *od halt a dozen bottles of whisky, but it r h «d scarely been brought home wlua th* police again appeared on. the ' scene, Twd seised and removed the new . gDnplyv^Tphen the thirsty proprietor ihtMtWti was liigh time to make tracks for Ts>^m6M hospitable neighborhood so be shiit up bi« bouse and came into the «*i^- : " -'. .; ... .