WELLINGTON NEWS.
(By Telegraph—.Press Association.) Wellington, Friday. Another two hundred women have forwarded claims to be enrolled fcr the city. • A point of some importanos to the liquor trade, was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The licensee- of the Metropolitan Hotel had hpen summoned for Sunday trading, and it was proved that tie man calling for a drink bad stated in reply to the barman that he nas a traveller and came from the Hint, vhere ho was living in town, and lmd m»do an untruthful ttnloinent. Tho defenca tolicd on was that tins evidence was sullicint for acquittal) but Mr Martin, R.M., poins out that the decision in recent English law reports compelled licensees to use greater precautions than mere asking if persons wero travellers. Judgment was reserved.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4530, 22 September 1893, Page 3
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130WELLINGTON NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4530, 22 September 1893, Page 3
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