Christchurch News.
LICENSING CASE.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Christchurch, last night.
At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, the licensee of the New Brighton Hotel was fined £5 and costs for supplying persons not bona fide travellers' on Sunday. This was a case in which the Magistrate previously held that a traveller remained such even after being several hours at a place, and could have more than one drink during closed hours. The Supreme Court upset this decision, and directed the case to be re-heard.
A FOOLISH GIRL. A girl named Bessie Gallagher, who had attempted to commit suicide by taking dissolved match-heads, was convicted and discharged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. 1 A SINGULAR CASE. A case arising out of the stabbing on the steamer Otarama, in Dunedin, came before the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton to-day, Win. Noilson claiming to be discharged from the steamer because ho was bound over as a witness in the case Rex v. Thompson, to bo heard in the Supreme Court at Dunedin, in May next. For the captain of the Otarama it was shown that the authorities had stated that there was no necessity to pay off witnesses, as thendeposition could be accepted by the Court. The Court decided that as the Crown had taken no steps to compel the informant to remain in the colony, it could not take the responsibility of upsetting his contract with the vessel. The application was therefore dismissed, each party to pay his own costs. As the man had taken a proper course in bringing the matter before the Court, the Bench ordered that no deduction be made from his wages on account of his absence from the vessel that morning.
DECEPTION—A RUSTY MACHINE
To-day the manager of the German Bay dairy was fined 40s and costs for having exported produce under weight. The case is the first one brought under Clause 18 of the Dairy Industry Act, 1898. A shortage of 11 lb to 21b per crate of cheese was discovered by tho grader at Lyttelton. Defendant was warned, and on a repetition was summoned. For the defence it was urged that the offence was unintentional, the weighing apparatus at tho factory having got rusty,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 61, 13 March 1901, Page 2
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