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urging the danger of being left without firearms, they promised to return two of the Guns and Pistol. They behaved very quietly and avoided all that Brutal conduct which so frequently Attends such Exploits." T h o u g h Fawkner was himself the first sly-grog seller—or, at least, the first unlicensed vendor of spirituous and fermented liquors—when he became a regularly set-up publican, he was not at all disposed to sanction infractions of the law, and this is h o w his paper discourses upon some recent Police Court convictions:—"On Thursday last several cases of grog-selling without a license were tried, and there were parties fined in the s u m of ,£30 each. A s they are punished for the offence they have committed, w e refrain from giving their names, but w e shall watch closely, and if they offend again they must incur the punishment of publicity."