DARGAVILLE DOINGS.
AND THE PENALTIES INFLICTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dargaville, December 28. A Maori named Jack Ashby pleaded guilty at the Helensville Court to-day of cruelly ill-treating a valuable young cattle dog by. picking it up, swinging it' round his head, and dashing it to.;'tha' ground, causing its legs to.be brokenrand its hip severely crushed. The dog'was " a valuable'one, £10 having been '■ refuses - for it by the same owner. Accused expressed regret, but said that the dog'lliad been worrying .his horses. He was fined ; Jli and costs, or fourteen days' imprison-..'/ ment. , , A young man named Thomas Stewart,:' ' recently disoharged off the s.s. because he was suspected of carrying liquor on board, on Christmas Eve violent-.' ly assaulted Captain Sellars, and'did his best to throw' the skipper overboard.. To-", day he whs brought before the Court'and charged with assault and using obscene ■ language. He was sentenced to six' weeks': imprisonment'. on. er.ch charge, the .sen-', tences to be cumulative; " . .'?/•.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 4
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159DARGAVILLE DOINGS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 4
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