INTERESTING COURT CASES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 67, 22 March 1901, Page 2

INTERESTING COURT CASES.

A WELL-DESERVED FINE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, last night. T. M. Stewart, Manager for John Edmond, ironmonger, was fined £2O and costs £3 2s, for having sent a package containing dynamite by rail, without giving notice in writing of the contents to the Department. On a second charge of wilfully making a false statement in respect to ■dynamite, by consigriing it as hardware, he was convicted and discharged. ’ The evidence showed that defendant was informed by the Department that dynamite could only be carried by the goods train, and under certain conditions, and that then he packed a consignment in a double box, and sent it as hardware.

In a case where a settler was prosecuted by the Coqnty Council for “ allowing ” horses to be at large qn q country road, Mr McCarthy, S.M., dismissed the information. Defendant was away from home when the alleged offence occurred, and his man was not aware that the horses were at large. The S.M- said that “ allowed,” by the dictionary definition, meant to grant a license to, or to consent to, and neither of those things had defendant or his servant done. His Worship suggested that the County Council should frame a bye-law which would make it “ an animal to be at large,” without using tho words “ allow, permit, or suffer.”