BOTTLING FRAUDS.

Patea Mail, 1 May 1882, Page 4

BOTTLING FRAUDS.

FORGED BRANDS FOR BRANDY,

Dunedin. —-At the Police Court yesterday, Charles Wilkins and Andrew Neilson, trading as “Wilkins & C 0.,” were charged with having in their possession on or about the 10th March 300 labels, appropriate and intended for labelling bottles containing liquor, such labels not having imprinted thereon in plain and legible characters the words “ Bottled in New Zealand,” and the name of the bottler using the said labels. Labels were .found in a cupboard in the warehouse in which the business of wine and spirit merchant was carried on. Cases for bottles weie in course of manufacture, and there was a stamp for marking capsules with fraudulent samples. Some of the capsules were stamped, and others were ready to be stamped. One witness gave evidence that cases were manufactured on the premises from imported unstamped boards, which were made up stamped with Hennessy’s brand. Each defendant in this case was fined £2O. A further criminal information against the defendants was then heard, to the effect that they applied a certain fo’-ged mark, purporting to be the trade mark of Messrs James Hennessy and Co., to certain bottles in which brandy, not being the manufactured production or merchandise of the said Hennessy and Co., was intended to be sold, with intent theieby to defraud. Both were committed for trial : being allowed bail in their own reoognip/Alices for £l5O each.