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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5201, 7 December 1895, Page 2

Tho Ekctabuna Hotels the have won tlioir point eketaiiiixa and gained a legal exuoms. tension of hours. Tlioy have also got rid of a conatablo who formerly used to keep them up to tho mark. Tho publicans of Eketahuna tiro to bo congratulated, tho public aro objects of sympathy. Tho legal hour of closing, however, is often a fiction. A friend of ours having business about 3 a.m. oue Sunday morning was astonished toseoa nnmberof drunken men emorging fr.opi a pub at thjs hour. In this instance 3 a.m. was tbo virtual closing hour. This thing happened, ns Sir liobert Stout recently ropiarked, in tho planot Jupiter.' Thofo firo somo very curious incidents taking place in that planet. Wo do not know what the virtual closing hour is at Eketahnna, butwe would sooner seo tho hotels there got a further extension than tlmt they should, as in somo places, escape all regulation I and control, '

At tlio Inst Licensing , the Election the. publicans licensing clubbed together to meeting return an"independent" committee which would do justice to the publicans even if it failed to do justice to the public. The publicans curried all their nominations with one exception, where thoy wero beaten by Mr Daniell. Mr Daniell plays almost a lone hand on the Committee, not being one of the "independent" nominees of the trade. Under these circumstances it requires great moral courage for a man to speak as Mr Daniell spoke yesterday. Next year \yo anticipate that Mr Daniell will bo re-elected—for he has the public at his back—and with him one or two " untied " men will be returned. Wo shall then see a very different state of things in Masterton.