MAGISTERIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2891, 6 February 1893, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL.

AS II BURTON -SATURDAY.

(Before Messrs W. G. Reea and Thomas I Bulluck, Justice of the Peace.) Lunacy.—.James Gordon, alias several other nameH, »r\\Q had been travelling at will on the railway without a ticket, 'and was alao charged with vagrancy, was further charged with lunacy. The latter charge having been proven the other two were withdrawn, and Gordon was sent to Sunnyeide. Drunkenness. — Fred Wallace, who had been up on February 1 for drunkenness, and been on the spree since, was fined 10s or twenty-four hours in gaol.

ASHBURTON- MONDAY.

(Before Mr J. W. Sawle, J.P.) j Dronkbnness.—Thomas M. Mitchell pleaded guilty to having been tound without lawful excuse in one of the stalls of the Royal stables on Saturday nisjht. tile had gone there to sleep off a debauch. When arrested he was vary violent and used very bad language. The Magistrate said that it was a strange thing lhat, in a i town like Ashburton, the public louses in which were reported at last meeting of ihe Licensing Committee as being very respectable, so many men could get drunk, and find themselves in this man's position. Where did they get the liquor ? The Sergeant replied that the liquor was obtained at the public houses, but in the present state of the law he was powerless u> stop the sale of liquor, %o the^e nieii. He regretted this, but Wds powerless to do anything. The Magistrate nupposed then that ht too was powerless, but it was a bad state (if attain). For the obscene language, prisoner *Wi uld go to gaol for fourteen days.; on the other I charge of going to sleep in the Royai stable he would be dismissed.—Two men who were treated as first offenders were— one dismissed with a caution, and the ! other fined ss.