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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 458, 4 March 1867, Page 3

St’m.Y of Liquor to the Natives. —lt is just as wel! that keepers ul public-li.Rises should remember that they render themselves liable to a heavy penalty if they sell grog to natives. A case occurred lately in Auckland which it was clearly laid down that the Nafhe Rights Act, 1865, did not do away with the pro hibition. The case was this. A half caste and three natives had gone into a hotel, and the landlord had given them, on the order of the half caste, two glasses of “ shandygaff,aud two glasses of rum. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr Gillies, who, in opening alluded to the impression that had got abroad that the sale of spirits ordinance was abrogated by the Native Rights Act, 1865. That was, he said, quite an erroneous im pression, as the Act mentioned was merely declaratory, and could not abrogate a positive enactment. The counsel for the defendant said that he would not attempt to argue that the Native Rights Act affected the ordinance. He urged; however, that the facts in evidence did not warrant the Magistrate in finding the case proved. His worship found the defendant guilty but imposed only a nominal penalty of Is and costs. —New Zealand Advertiser.