SHORT ALTERNATIVE.
To the Editor. Having read the following in this day’s issue of the Daily Time*: sons brought up at yesterday’s sitting of the Mayor’s Court were Archibald M'Callum and Findlay Macdonald, who, on charges of drunkenness, were fined 5s each, with a short alternative of imprisonment ” —Will you be good enough to inform me the meaning of “short alternative.” My knowledge being so far short of yours, I have no other alternative, and feel that, should I use such a sentence without being put in possession of its true meaning, I should deserve a short imprisonment.—l am, &c. School Boy, Limited. June 20, 1872.
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Evening Star, Issue 2913, 20 June 1872, Page 2
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106SHORT ALTERNATIVE. Evening Star, Issue 2913, 20 June 1872, Page 2
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