MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2275, 22 August 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before bis Worship the Mayor, and Tbos. Dick, Esq., J.P.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. The following persons were fined os each, for drunkenness : Jdfm Sanders, Charles Hamilton, and George Johnston. A SALUTARY WARNING. Peter M‘Kay, on bail, was charged with having been drunk on Saturday. His Worship, in passing sentence, said that it was usual, for a first offence, to fine a person charged with 'drunkenness the mitigated penalty of os; but the accuse 1 in this case had aggravated bis offence by calling upon him (flic Mayor) with a view to having the charge against him dismissed. In order to mark the sense of the Bench of the impropriety of such a course of proceeding, be would fine him 20s. SUMMONS CASKS. Henry Taylor, for neglecting to have a light burning at an excavation at the corner of George street and Albany street, was fined 2s (id and costs. William Allen, allowing a bull to depasture on the South Dunedin .Recreation Ground, was lined 10s and costs.

“Is Mrs Blinking at home? asked Mr Saunders of the Irish girl who answered his ring at the door. “Yes, I b’lave she is, sir, 7, “la she engaged?” “ Ah, is it engaged you say ? Fajx, an’ I can’t tell you, sir ; but she kissed Mr Tiuoeut last evening as if she had never seen the like of him, and it’s engaged I h’lave they are, sir.” ( The pastor of a popular church, one Sabbath school concert, said :—“ Boys, when I head your beautiful songs to-night 1 had hard work to keep my feet still ; what do you suppose is the trouble with them ?” “ Cliilbaius, sir,” said a little six-year-old boy; which, notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, set the whole audience in a roar.