MAGISTERIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2904, 21 February 1893, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL.

ASHBU3TON-TUESDAY.

(Before Major Steward, J .P.) A Disgraceful Row.—John Clifford pleaded guilty to having been riotous in Burnett street the previous afternoon. > John Kemp pleaded guilty to the same charge, and also to using obscene language, and resisting the police. It appeared that these two men had been engaged in a fight in Burnett street, which had lasted some lime and to which a Justice of the Peace had called the police. Clifford was very dtunk, but contrary to his- usual custom, he came away with the police quietly. Kemp had run away but had been arrested, by Constable Hunt with some difficulty/but not until he had made use ot the most abominably foul language. The police produced a bad record against Kemp, but he denied he was the man whose history had been recorded as stated by the police, and the Sergeant not being in a position to prove the records, they were not used against him. The Magistrate fined Clifford £5 or a month's imprisonment, and sent Kemp to gaol for three terms of fourteen days each—six weeks in all—without the option of a fine.—Patrick O'Malley was fined os and costs or twenty-four hours in gaol for drunkenness.