THE NEW YEAR FROLIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 5

THE NEW YEAR FROLIC.

CO(JBT THINKS IT SERIOUS,

Through only s following out tho old ... practice. of ring&g: out the old year and ; ■ ■ ringing in .the new, p young resident of Island Bay had to appear before'.thd Mag-' . - istrato's Court yesterday: morning. ' , .'Constable Redican, tho police officer at ~';tho seaside suburb, gave'evidence to.the effect that on January l, at a little after' . midnight;: Ao 'heard n church bell and >tho'.firebell ringing. : He found ' that- the. • young man before the 1 Court rang tho fire- . bell, and that a friend rung the church ' belL'X;. There .-were sorno! girls, with ..the: . two'young men. . ■ .' 1 . ■ Mr. P. W. Jackson, defendant's solicitor, .. pointed out to tho, Court that tho occasion was tho birth of t the New Year, rind , . assprted'that the fire'brigade,;at, the Bay ■ was- defunct. (or thereabouts)'.' /: ' . Dr. M'Arthur, S.M. i The whole of these

. circumstances 'are so terribly .Serious that ,I must ;convict, and-, discharge tho; dofendant. • ' . Mr. Jackson :,-I was. going to ask you . 1 to not even enter/a conviction against him. 1 Dr. Jl'Arth'ur (jocularly): Very well, he will be cautionod and; discharged, so that .; ' thoy cannot point the finger of criminnlity At him. Don't do it again.