AUCKLAND.
This day
Mr Edwin Hesketh, defending in one of tbe grog adulterating cases on Saturday, raised the obfection that if the defendant did sell spirits, the clause provided no penalty which could reach him ; clause 5 provided that a person who shall sell, as unadulterated, any article of food or drug which is adulterated, shall be liable to a penalty, but it did not prohibit a man from selling an adulterated article, and the only penalty in clause 7 was that a person doing so should be deemed to have sold an adul« terated article. His Worship reserved the point. Several other technical points were taken, and it was urged further that the Act did not provide any standard for the strength of spirits, as in the English Act, where the standard below which spirits may not be reduced is 25 under proof. His Worship reserved his decision until next week.
A heavy thunderstorm occurred this afternoon. The lightning struck VerraH's coach builder's shop, on the Karangahape Boad, and three of the employe's had a narrow escape.
[Pee Press Association.]
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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181AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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