Correspondence.
Y'o the I'.'lit'tr of lit-' Ltjllt'lltm Times. Sir, —In your tv;-;rt of ilie flisciisr<ions . jjj tile Fruvinciai Ccj'-.riicil, on the Public- '
house Bill, as published in your issue of last Saturday, it is stated that I charged the Lyttelton m-Tchants with paying their men partly with spirits. This, Sir, is evidently a mis-statement, unintentional on the part of your reporter. When clause 24 was introduced, giving the magistrates the power to tine and imprison "any publican at whose house any person may be supposed to get drunk, I opposed the clause as unjust and oppressive on the publican, and pointed out the ease and facility of obtaining spirits in the sly grog shops and eating-houses. To those observations I also added the remark that on several occasions persons had been paid partly in spirits for labour and for produce from*the Bays; but not by the Lytteltoti merchants, who, I am happy to say. conduct their business in a just and honourable
manner. I have only to add, in conclusion, that, considering the small amount of crimes and offences committed in this province, the hill was uncalled-for and unjustifiable. I remain, your obliged servant, R. Davis. Lyttelton, April 3rd. 1856.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 357, 5 April 1856, Page 6
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