CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4412, 6 May 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Recent GmblinqScanM. [TO THE EDITOR.)/:;" ; Sir,—ln delivering judgment.ori.ithe; above case, His Worship i the:.JV..M. expressed his surprise that the ranttpr bad not come before the ;Cpurt:in another form." In thatsbpimbn.mbst people will concur. "What the.police intend to do in this casr'remains to bo Bejn. Tho case bcforb;u'suh)owß';a on an infamous-nest of iniquityiTi our very midßt,./During tho time thiit thirty-two.informations'; have been laid against the,Star.Hotel; it has beoti.asserted'ihat.;;the;pbiice', wero simply poieccuting.thdriicensee of the house, andwirikingatth'ebiher. offender ill the town/;. If:sucH:bo;ihd'l case, I mred hardly sayHhat'lhavbiib: sympathy ! whatever "with-; sucli- .par-; iality,:.: It\ a3^Pat':aay^;-.; ,, !i>n'ie's ; as; bad as. t'c ■ther.fand'ten -times "pi'se,"- : thon thfj. dutyVor.thd; ;poiico is- plain,and tha'i of the 'LicensingCpmmiitee; equally clearthp .whole, crow .OUt^'ann^let: us. have njbjv vVho. will koep;:'the'law'.r-Aftefc'tliorecent; garabliiog iaseivmpst;':p?!Sob|Jwill ; be; prepared {to ■put; down 1 theStiir M dtel : - as ati illd wo) ee ; than. tLe otherß; ;aud;i ■^SBBB^^peoi»|'„"tK ft . |m '?n.C?'?'-''bß; ;;■■:'. hls|jj__f_re Oomtnii-t.ro. I.'would' ;"' ol..tlielCommilrco to; ■. the evidence of MortonsQni ! a9.it:show.s ■ / how, tho^'ct; which; they;,are called; upon- tovadroinist er■;ia;riddled, ; ,torh ■ and trailed' in;the;'Mij;:(!);.:Tbis' \ manMbrteiisenwaariotatraveller,be-: cause asbe:himsßlfi,tellß;Uß' i h'9.liad' engagcilvbods'latelmird^^ and'; yet- he .-■■ is - : per mi 11 pd:' v : to/enter .a licenß?d-hoiiir-nbt>fbr;;i)ufpb?cS; : 'bl refresbment;end«B^bui'|aming^S't: midni2ht^o;ihours;jfcer;it|Bhould.i have,;. beeh : ..'olo3Qd: v-Hereya a : brea'ch of qlau6e:lso; of;.tbe;'Lice iisip g.Act. (2.)!;Heindßfive}or;Bixpers'onflgani-' ingby/tbrowing (iicey; : '. :,0f» this : "tbe : ' lice&seb\iXawarei;':fpr:he;rß,gbing ; ''in; and out," and in faot, .t'elia them rtbatif they wish to.cbntinue playing : they' : must go into, another room;' 1 , TbiEt^ia a'breach of clauspjWO iu)hojaid-ActV (3.) Tho gvidence, clearly; Bho.wb tliat ' /this /among thieves, ■pv.'a.yery (dark" hu'eji / henco; tho E,Mi.;remarked';;tbaVthe.j / transaction with 1 Ibe -vhalfrEoyersigna; I / was certainly;stealing,;, : of'this-theI I licensee must have, been awaro,v'aß:be.| I offered to'ie'und the half Ebyereignsjo; / the plaintiff, In a police -prosecution I under the charge of ::kfepnig'a:dis». / orderly house/an aatutolawyermight; I save from a conviction,but aLicensing. I Committee which obiefly.cbnsiders'toß case in tho moral realm f ;.will,certainly ' know that in theantbrests',of-public" order,.: tbft. only way.'.t6:;dea'i: : .with':'a house characters are knoiysgJsKbouredi"isi-to 'shut it up,, With this infamous caseblaWthem; —which reveals a'dep'th'of ;:dep'r'ayjty' simply deplorable—added^-tb;". the. scandal that within, two': and a.half; years, 32 informations.bayplbe'eh^laioV against this house, not all, of which ought to bavo obtained- cpnyip.tion, the.- Committee .-will su'rely..''epd this wretched busitiess .byicloaiihg ;.tb^e; home at the'next ;Annua];;Llcejising Meeting, --•• J(Wtf^/'f.'.'■„■;:" *;:; Iam,:ctc ; i;;;:;v;.- " ; /- ::JbHN;;DuKEsi:>