The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1882. THE SUNDAY LIQUOR CASES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 7 October 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1882. THE SUNDAY LIQUOR CASES.

we§ §!s}!}& the publicans in the R.SL '@osrt a.t yesterday were a .transparent, feffie. No one, froyeyer, surprised, | as j.t understood beforehand ! thai no re&l yfts forthcoming —that thero to tg fee (iMayof! powder, but that thero was to be no 1 shot in the guns, Under any circumstances legal proof of Sunday liquor traffic is difficult' to pbtain, How much more.so is it when vitnftSSQS are unwilling, or, as one said yesterday fjity by accident he was asked an "I am not going to .criminate■myself" jjroof and pup) proof are yery ljbing3. j FflP ejppje, ,ey,cry oijie ip court yes-i ter4»y »u?f feen mopily certain; that ft partjwtor itsj precincts was the worse for liijupr j yet j we'defy the sixty or seventy persons present to prove legally that he wa? so. i It must have been a great relief to the mind of the Oourt that the Rev Mr Isitt, the ,tempeVanco champion, was Teas not present on this occasion to wito«p the.fact that the "demon" its heacjl pse# in the hall of justice and forces .itself %re qij the public gaze wit|i9u| a mojrat pr<?of is Wt legal proof, fus • y?e F® qmtel prepared to gjmit that the individual! in question was legally sober and only ! morally inebriate, W.e pe equally prepared to admit that though 'twere has been morally a little Sunday liquor traffic carried on in Masterton, legally not a single nobbier has been suppliod. The temperance party may be satisfied with the result of their agitation without crowning, it with a conviction—first, because they have not sought to obfoity one; secondly, because it:is .almost impossible, vitjjout willing witnesses, to get one; mJ, thirdly, because the laxity in the administration of the Act of which they complained has already been remedied, The law has been virtually vindicated, although no breach of it has been proved, A reformation in the manner in which some public houses conduct their business on Sunday has been effected, and Mr Isitt's celebrated speech is the primary cause of the flange. The magistrate, tho police, and the publi&oy be diligent and in their ( desiro t9 svry out tjie Act jb far as it relates to, Sunday trading, and while this continues .to jjei •theiase the little agitation we jiave recently had-on the subject may be allowed to quietly subside. ~ i