SLY GROG SELLING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3034, 24 December 1891, Page 2

SLY GROG SELLING.

CAUOIIT IN Tills ACT. Foil sonifi time past there have beoii r.nnonrs Boat,iiiK about with releiMtice to slv i!rog sellin" in the Kinpr Conntrv, but it has been carried on so quietly that tho police have not been able to prove a el-ar u»si! iifjaiiist the oliendio'.-i. On li^t how3\Ti - , Inspector and Jones from Te Awainntu proceeded t" Otornhanga by train, and wore tlieie joined liy Con-itables Gordon and Hopeno,__ the de<tination of tho party bcinp; Te Kuiti, ivher.i a race ineetinsr was being held. The Inspector loft the transit Otor .liantra, ;iud it proceeded on to To Kuiti. 11-i with Itis party followed h.t-r oil jißßors, and iirriv® I at Te Kuiti abouo iiai'-oa-t ten .m Mondiy niffht. They w.mt Mtr.is'ht to H. Tannery boarliiiK-house. Hen there was apparontly an open bur, all sorts of drink beins; there ns iu a A native waa found With a glass of whiskey in his hand and which he stated Tanner had supplied him wit h and that ho had paid Tanner for it, The Inspjctor left two of his men in charstn here and witli the other mail proceeded to F. Perry's boardiiiß-lioiisi where a somewhat similar suenu was tf.ine through. Both places were ' searched and spirits ul various kinds and beer were found stowed away iu different places in and around the houses, some beer addressed to H". Tanner bcin? found near u a creek close by. Tho accused will be brought up before Caiit. Jackson. R. M., at To Awaiuutu on Janu.iry 20th, when it is i-xnectud from the op-n handed manner in whxh thev were caushc that they will both plead guilty.