THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 267, 18 December 1909, Page 2

THE COURTS.

MEDICINAL WINE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, December 17. (Mr. fatten fined William Winn, grocer. C-"> Is for selling Steam's wine without :< license. The wine was advertised ii« having tonic medicinal properties, but (he Magistrate found, as I a fact, that the wine was' a beverage, INDECENT PUBLICATIONS, Auckland, December 17. Mr. Cutten, iS.M., gave his reserved decision on the informations against Joshua Martin Connolly, who was charged with having sold indecent books, His Worship held that "A Wife's Handbook" and " Fruits of Philosophy" were not medical books.' He entered convictions In each case, and ordered the hooks to be destroyed.

, A similar course was adopted ill regard to a book containing a series of indecent incidents strung together in the form of a storv. Fines totalling £0 and costs 21s were imposed. Tin the case against Archibald Demies, charged with exhibiting indecent pictures in a penay-in-the-slot machine, the magistrate found that ten out of about twenty of the pictures were indecent, and imposed a fine of £5 Is. SLY GROG-SELLING. • Ihincdin, Last Night. I 'At Milton to-day John Sallnrd was fined £SO for keeping liquor for sale in the no-license district of Bruce, Thomas Walker, a hawker, was fined £25 for selling eleven bottles of whisky in Milton on show dav last month. Defendant bought the whisky nt Henley at five shillings a bottle and sold it fof seven shilling at WJJtoa,