SLY-GROG SELLING
[by TELEORAFH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, last night. At Balclutha to-day tho hearing of th®_ charges of sly - grog selling against Jas. Smith Vial was proceeded with. The principal witness was a man named Collier and his wifo, who stayod at Vial’s, and gave positive evidence of a sale. Defendant denied this, and swore he knew from the first that tho Colliers were informers.
Mr Cruickshank, S.M., said there would be a conviction, but deferred sentence until further cases.
The second charge against Vial was dismissed, tho witnesses denying that any whisky had been sold to them-
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 566, 8 November 1902, Page 2
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