SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4786, 25 July 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

(from odr own correspondent. ) Dunedin, Monday. Itc local opinion ou Stout’s Licensing Bill, a meeting is convened'for to-night at Balclutha at 8.30, when the following propositions will be submitted ;—l. That this meeting views with grave apprehension the passing of the Local Option Licensing Bill in its present form, seeing that the carrying into force of the provisions of such Bill must involve a large amount of loss and distress being incurred by numbers of respectable individuals, who have pursued a legitimate business and invested a large amount of capital for carrying out satisfactorily the requirements of the general public in erecting suitable buildings, so as to carry out faithfully the provisions of the present Act now in force. 2. That the passing of the Bill in its present form would most certainly cause the suppression of well regulated hotels, the continuance of which this meeting consider a necessity, and would substitute illicit traffic in liquor, which no possible amount of supervision could suppress. 3. That this meeting condemn the Bill as unjust and tyrannical, inasmuch as no provision has been made to indemnify individuals in the trade who may be partially or entirely ruined by its operations. 4. That the Chairman of this meeting be requested to telegraph these resolutions to Wellington, to the member for the district and Mr. Macaudrew, requesting them to do all in their power to assist in stopping further progress of the Bill, and to acquaint the House of these resolutions.