CORRESPONDENC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4426, 23 May 1893, Page 4

CORRESPONDENC.

The Licensing Mmeny.- I {To tub. Editor,' W.D, Times.] : „ Sir,—With yourself I very much ; regret that Mr Pownall does not touch' thomain issuein my letters, but seizing upon a solitary paragraph,- he v tries to frighten me into silence with 0 t law-suit, Law suit forsooth I Be-j----:ause I have made an attaok on what B [ believe to bo a disreputable house, p trid .said ofit what 90 per cent, of the ! aeople of . Masterton ■.. believe. ? A'td 1 :hw is not simply the opinion of the R ' goodly aRd righteous ones" but of j ;he Court, for-tho Bench, in giving p ndgment on Saturday, characterised 9 the proceedings as dugrmful, further a :hat "he could, not close his eyes;,to 0 :lio f«t that several Imcha of tho 1 Licensing Act .had been shewn by he evidence." With tlipso charges c banging over.the' head of the licensee, „ m l against whom ihe police can at my time lay. informations, it iB very rich for"Mr Pownall -to ; breathe out 'slaughter and ihiealening " against lie. I have simply demanded in the j nterests of morality. that the hotel ~ shall . be closed, . After Saturday's - :aso—if tho Committee do not falsify « ill their good professions made when they were placed in power—they" will 1 certainly close it.;; ;I am not going to name a single charge on which the . licensee of the Star Hotel should have been convicted, Why? Not because j lam.afraidof tho ,result,of a law-suit, 1 but because—and tho public will c jlearly' understand me when I frankly a admit it—l am unable—in the face f sf the "gallant thirty," whom Mr Pownall. has said that he can mar- c shail into court-to legally prove it, s But my: opinion of the house remains : the. : sameV,.v'if/-howßTer,"jiir Pownall .' thinks that ho lias a case against mo, ; let him' proceed at once.» It will only result in a splendid gain for Prohihilion and tho cause for moral reform ;{ in Masterton,. I am, Jontf Dt/KEB,