CANTERBURY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 11 December 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

CANTERBURY.

A Native Exhibition. —Our Nelson correspondent writes as follows : —This province as long been noted for conceiving all sorts of promising schemes, and the latest is one hatched in the brain of our Native Interpreter. Having heard of the success of an Auckland doctor in Australia, this official proposes to make a fortune in England in a similar way, by exhibiting a troupe of Maoris with their war dresses, &c. He has, it is said, persuaded four or five other Nelsonians to join him and to pay down £SOO each ; and these Nelson Barnums are going to astonish the Londoners at the Egj'ption Hall and elsewhere, and expect to return to the land of their adoption with a profit of £50,000. The Maoris are to have a share of the profits ; and as they go under the charge of an old missionary, it may oven pay them to appear on the platform at Exeter Hall, and support the views of Canon Stowell and his followers. Diojnkakds and Publicans. —The following clauses are to be submitted to Provincial Council of Canterbury ; —l. ‘lf it sljall be proved to the satisfaction of two Justices of the Peace that any person has become an habitual drunkard, and is injuring his health or wasting his substance by excessive drinking, such Justices shall thereupon issue a notice in writing under their hands, setting forth the name, personal appearance, calling, and usual place of abode of such person, and prohibiting all persons from supplying to the person named in such notice any spirituous or fermented liquors whatever and shall cause such notice to be published in all the newspapers, and a copy thereof to be sent to every holder of a license under this Ordinance within the Province.’—2. ‘Every person who shall, during the space of two years after the date of such notice knowingly supply, or cause to be supplied, to any person named in such notice, any intoxicating liquor of any kind, or in any quantity whatsoever, shall, upon conviction before any two Justices of the Peace be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any period not exceeding three months: Provided, that it shall be lawful for anyone to supply such liquor to the person named in such notice, upon the certificate in writing of two duly qualified medical practitioners that such liquor is required by such person as a medicine ; and provided that such liquor shall have been supplied in such quantities and scuh times only as those named in such certificate.’