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Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897
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 STRAY NOTES     ~continued.
     I don't suppose any of the cases will be tried
to-day.  It's far too good a thing to hurry over,
so we may expect a field day at the Police Court
next week.  It has been a great event in the
town, and the policemen are looking very pleased
over it.
     As I don't know the merits of the case,
I can't say anything about it, only I think it's
rather rough on men who only go to a public-
house for refreshment to have to run the risk of
being pounced upon by the police and hauled off
like felons to the Police Court.
         This certainly is not the English way of going
about such business.  I hold that a warning should
be given in such cases, and if anything wrong
happens after that then a raid is fairly justifiable.
However, we will know more about such matters
when the trials come off.
     The old premises known as the "Pacquet"
Office was something like a knacker's yard that
afternoon, for it was full of keen set printers'
brokers and jobbers from all parts of England,
who expected to have a rare feast over the bones
of the "Pacquet."
     The machine that cost about £500 was knocked
down at £160, and the man who bought it, when
he considered how much it was going to cost him
to freight it to Hastings , thought he paid too
much for it.
     I guess the newspaper business has not been a
profitable investment for the Earl of Lonsdale.
He has still the "post" on his hands, but this
Conservative organ is about the weakest specimen
of its class in the United Kingdom.
                                                            
                  ~to be continued.
 
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