THE SOCIAL EVIL IN WELLINGTON.
|lU TELKGRU'H.— PHEVS VSiOCI VTION. | ■\Vkm.int, ton, Wednesdaj'. A welt, KNOWN prostitute was charged under the amended Police Offences Statute with being the occupier of a disorderly hmi-jp, ilc. The piosccutwn is being brought by residents in the neighbourhood of tlio house, and inteiest is attached to it through its being tho fiist ca«e biouglit under the amended Act. After some eMdcnce was taken, counsel for defendant offeied on her behalf to close, the house and leave, the neighbourhood, but co lmel for the pl.iiutirN, while acknowledging tfi.it the 010-iing of the house was the pi unary object, declined to abandon the case, .is on the grounds of public nioiahty he was inbtrncted to pi ess for a conviction. The case was adjourned until Fnd.iy.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 2
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130THE SOCIAL EVIL IN WELLINGTON. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 2
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