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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4621, 13 January 1894, Page 2

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. ThelauwurdofaNorwood-roadinn n was sumifned last week before Mr ;. Biron, (m, at Lambeth Police is Court, formeeping his house open is during' profited hours. It vieems , d a that, relyirMon a recent deoision of „ the SupremiMlourt, in whioh it was ,f declared thatfcgnalrnao, by. walking n to and from B box on a railway, had n constituted Htelf a bona fide travelie ler, though Wid not reside three miles from ■ publio house, tbe it defendant haSnervcd a tramway ?• guard under ■Aimpresaion that he in within hisrfflitsif the man had iB gone a journey. W Biron, however, gave a deoidedUpinion that the jjj defendant was in Irror, and said it - 8 would not have metered, if tbe conIt duotorhad gone fow journeys. In id the circumstances, » defendant was ir fined 20s and as'coslf but his license was not marked. ' ( at Mr Besant says that Albany in &• Maine is a pretty towp; it b old, as Araarican towns go; ithasaohuroh as built in 1690 or ther,eabputs. It is ta rather sleepy; tbe girls wear pink frocks and white lrooks hotel is ue admirable; there is aVg^od deal ol " r walking abroad in tho rfvemncs j the • gfrls walk three by three) and the £ young men two by two. ') Tho Broadet % of Albany at nine or. ten in the lh evening on a summer's night is a very 0 . drawing room for and there arejno publio-houses, my Temperance ei friends—at least none in viU. Then r oi are burs, no doubt, somewhere ot iy other, but the public-house is not, be g, with us, the principal feature -in tbe » street," . ■ \ ■ «t 1 . " The oWaiita' dmlk. BaysU" A £ nice little exposure of' medical dieting ' was made in tbe Chancery ld ' Division yesterday. There, is,, or 8u rather was, a company whioh deals in ty medicated wines, and tbe ; directors presented ' a number oi id medical gentleman' with' Foundera' e- Bhares, on tho understanding that |i» they would push the wares of the conid cern by recommonding them in pri- " vate praotice. How the dirty trick 3 J was exposed was that the company , y came to be wound up. and the medical holders ot tho Founders' shares had r „ the impudence to ask to be taken ofj J6 the list .of oontribotories, The Uw s . was dear and it was in their favour, ih so the judge most reluctantly conceded >• the demand, whioh fortheir own sakej |° and the honor of their profession |(j they would, have done better not to in put forward," The Bame journal 4 adds; "It is a nice thing for tho patient,who has.been made n to foreswear his port and sherry, j, his ohampagoe and Madeira, and to 1, swallow new-fangled and almost b anonymous concoctions, to find that '• the only object of bis' adviser' was to * put dividends in his own pocket. We cannot think that manymen indeoent j. practice would lend themselves to so shady a proceeding. In the iatorests ,1 of the' respectable members of an ~ hobourable profession it would be well e if the namos thus removed from the i- contributors' list should be placed on y a separate list-an Index. Expurga- '• torius of dootors, who are nob to be j consulted ou matters of diet." In the Crown Court, at the Leeds n Assizes, recenty, Ralph Itfngbpttom, . 87,_butcher, was indicted for adminise taring" opium to a person named i- Jjawlon, thereby endanger* f ing his life, at Delph, on June 17tb. * Prisoner went to a ohemist'a shop- at Delph, and got some laudanum. ' When he was leaving the shop he '• met an acquaintance, who asked him , where he- was going, He replied, t - "To the Swan Inn. There's Tussey I there (meaning Lanton). He's drunk > and playing 'Old Harry,' He says < he's going to follow/me and young •■ Sim, but IVegotsdmethinrhereto I give'hiui* It'll wake him sleep, and I when he wakes up he'll be all right." J On .arriving at the iun some of the j liquid was poured in a glass of rum, i and Lawton drank it. He became j unconsdious,' and required medical I attention for several hours before'he ! was out of danger, Prisoner was 1 sentenced to one month's imp'rißon--1 ment, his Lordship remarking that 1 it'was that the publio ; should know that men should not trifle by way of joking with poisonbUß , drugs, —Examiner, August 4th,