Sly Grog Traffic.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1650, 5 March 1886, Page 2

Sly Grog Traffic.

. : "- ' : [W&dville Scaniwier.] ;UU * * , The periodical scenes of drunkenness and riotou? conduct on the part of some of the railway employes at Mata-iwi have long been a scandal to the district, and as there is no licensed house nearer than Woodville it was pretty generally known that an extensive sly grog -traffie 'i must have been going en. It will, there-^ fore, be' satisfactory to the public: to* know that , the police have at last taken * the matter m hand, the delay having occurred solely through the difficulty m : procuring sufficient, evidence to secure a conviction. ! S^rgt^CarJypny (accompanied .-by Gon. ? stabjejJE&Bry) naajTeta rajd'on the Ibguav ing honsQS at Mata-iwi on Saturdayrand being armed with the r necessary search warrant, proceeded ita business without loss of time. He found that Mr Kirby had two casks of beef- on tap, and at Mr Rueben Harris' he soon unearthed liquors : of all" kinds,' including whiskey, brandy, and rum. The Ser«t.. ! "Heard of 'a.third party engaged m :the'>' traffic; but having to return to Woodville " for the search warrant; he " missed- his * shot " through the delay, and only bucceeded m discovering, some empty beer casks. . The position was graphically descrfbed by one of the detected imett A Who said to the Sergeant, "You have caught the. two partridges but haxe np|i gbotthe pheasant." The "partridges'* owned up, we are informed, tb~ the""?!?-"** linquincies; it is to. be -hoped, the "i pheasant" will soon be baggeii— he has : -.his wings clipped already. Tne liquor —almost sufficient to start a hotel,- on a small seale — wksfeseized, and conveyed to \Vbodville, wbjere it awaits^ the |bjrder of the Court, confiscation or , ?6therwise. Summonses against the men will b« issued m due course.