SLY-GROG.
Well authenticated complaints reach us from Waipu of the existence of sly -grog shanties, which are doing a roaring business. Hitherto Waipu , has been rather more famous for its leviathan tea-and-mumn scrambles, church-meetings, and bucolic dancing classes than for an illicit consumption of fighting tanglefoot whisky, but as there is a large admixture of the Scotch element in the population, national taste for the mutchkin" of auld rye is only to be expected. Our informant indicates one or two persons who are engaged in illicit grog-selling, but until we are in possession, of more specific information we withhold the names. He alleges that in the case of a a*ecent request for a publican's license the persons interested in sly-grog selling were among the most active in defeating the application.' The case appears to be one for the police, to whom our correspondent ought to furnish the necessary particulars.
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Observer, Volume 4, Issue 91, 10 June 1882, Page 195
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149SLY-GROG. Observer, Volume 4, Issue 91, 10 June 1882, Page 195
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