RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1710, 21 June 1883, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Yrsnunu — [Hcf.'ic* Col Ljon, JP] The Inefficiency of Prohibition. A ("iNKiit'UK') tippler nainerl ])a\id Nesbitt, iamdi.nly Unown to tlie Csunbnd^'o public .is J)a,\ y the T.iilor, w.ia led betoio the coiut on a charge ot ilmn's einii\ss, iiiul for being n nuisance when in tint crmihtion. The police stated fi.it the accused was a pio!iil;itod ])cison, ii pi nhilntion older li;uiny 1 ecu issued a^iiiii>>t hsm in Oulol>oi List, hut it li.id com- to tluui knowledge th.it nativoi wcic always n.'dy and willint; to pioiuue a supply of lxjuoi foi a piolnbited poison, in uonsideiation of a share of tlic feast. As the piohibition notices we.ro not ]>i iuto'l m Mioii, tlio police, though they knew the culpi itt>, wcio unilile to pioceud against them, and they woie tints enabled to cmy on 1111 pnmty. Coiibidei ing this, it was (Wbir ■iblo that the Bench suould gi\e the noccssniy older to liuvc thu notices printed in Maou ,w([ stuck up in .1 conspicuous* place in all the loc.il publichouses Ai ii piolubition ordei in the c.ise ot the ajoiusod was found to be ineffectual, it \\'d^ desirable that tho accused should be submitted to a tei in of nnpiisoiunenfc. The piisoner was accordingly sentenced to imprisonment for six days, with haul labour.