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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 16 February 1885, Page 3

The following is the ' net result' of the whisky venture :— . . ■ ."• " ; , » , . Bourke : For carrying spirits .on, which . duty had not been paid, pleaded .guilty, £ioo. .-,.•■ . ./ For being concerned m carry spirits on which full duty had not been paid, 'convicted, £100. . For disposing of spirits on which duty "had. not been paid, withdrawn. i. A Selling spirits, &c, two informations, withdrawn. m . . . . George Moss : for supplying materials for manufacturing illicit whisky, convicted and fined £200. John Anderson : for having an unlicensed still, convicted, and fined £100* : For making illicit spirits, dismissed. Peter Smith: for assisting Anderson to make illicit spirits, convicted, and fined >ja.oo. • Thomas Lloyd : for having spirits on his premises on which full duty had not loeeri paid, convicted and fined 4-50. For purchasing spirits on which duty had not been paid, withdrawn. Total fines, £650. '.' Messrs Anderson and Smith, have accepted, a Government appointment at a salary of #200 per annum each, or m plain English, have been committed to ibrisbn' for six months m default of pay- ; -ment ot the fine imposed,