SALE OF LIQUOR IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 6

SALE OF LIQUOR IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

A regulation made by His Excellency the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, "to piohibit the supply of intoxicating liquors to natives of the Western Pacific Islands " has been published. After repealing Regulations No. 1, 2, 3 and 4of 1879, and enumerating the islands included in the expression " Western Pacific Islands,' 5 and interpieting the meaning of "native" and "intoxicating liquor," the regulation enacts that "If any British subject in the Western Pacific sells or gives or otherwise supplies either directly or indirectly any native of any island or place within the Western Pacific Islands any intoxicating liquor he shall on conviction thereof before the Court of Her Majesty's High Commissioner be liable to punishment as follows : —(1) Imprisonment for any term not exceeding thiee months wilh or without a line not exceeding ten pounds ; or, (2) A line alone not exceeding ten pounds without any imprisonment." Further, that/ *' it shall not be an offence under this regulation for any person to gne to any native lor any urgent cause or necessity, and without recompense or remuneration, any intoxicating liquor when such intoxicating- ' liquor is given solely and purely for medicinal purposes, but )k shall i-est with the person giving such intoxicating liquor to prove to the satisfaction of the Court the exi&fcence of t»uch urgent necessity, and failing such proof such person shall be liable to the punishment provided in section 2 hereof." The figure "2" i» evidently a misprint, and intended for the numeral ct 3."