The Dunedin Tragedy. APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE. Dunedin, Yesterday

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1213, 8 April 1880, Page 2

The Dunedin Tragedy. APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE. Dunedin, Yesterday

Butler this morningapplied for a change of venue, an the ground that the public mind was prejudiced against him. The judge to grant the application, consideriugthat such prejudice did not exist, but granted a postponement of the trial till Thursday week to enable prisoner to prepare his defence.

On a homeward-bound Charleston car a jolly-looking Irishman was saluted with | the remark, ' Tim, your house has blown I away. ' Dad thin it isn't' he answered, 'for I have the kay in my pocket. The Wellington correspondent of the Star says : — At the last meeting of the Wellington. City Council a deputation was received from the Licensed Victuallers' Association, who called attention to the practice of sly-grog selling so extensive in the city, and requested that the trade might be protected. ' It was pointed out that the trade were placed at a serious disadvantage in having to pay a large sum per annum for a license whilst scores of persons were driving a large illegal traffic "without paying anything at all. This illegal business was carried on chiefly in oyster saloons, fruiterers' shops, and houses of ill repute. One of the depn* tationists complained of the alleged injustice done to the trade by so-called working men's clubs. He stated that whenever the Incensing Commissioners declined to grant a license to a house, the applicant, in many cases, called the house m question a "working men's club," and sold liquors without taking out a license. Whatever truth there may be in this statement, it is wellknown that some time ago, when the Bench refused a license to a certain house which had been built in the suburbs, the owner adopted the following method of evading the provisions 6f the Statute :— - He sold numbers of concert tickets to his friends, and the possessor of such ticket?, by calling at that house, was instantly treated to a " friendly glass. '* Of course the concerts never took place. The .attack made by the trade against Working Men's, Clubs has provoked quite a .storm of indignation amongst the supporters of .such institutions. Mr Charlep Hendrey, in a pithily written letter to the Popt, defends the clubs from the aspersions of their enemies, ' and -points gut the incalculable, good they do.