OPIUM VICTIM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1809, 16 July 1906, Page 4

OPIUM VICTIM.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, Saturday.

"H 9 is a clangorous importer,” was a term applied by Chief D-veosiyo McGrath :#6 tho Police Court to a superior looking young man ntum d Arthur Hoory Hrinstend, who pleaded guilty to being an idle and a disorderly person, having itieuffi cirnt means of support. The detective explained that Brinsiuad oame from Auckland about a mouth ego, stayed at different hctols, and left without paying bis board. He caino from tho Old Country, but had not done any honest work eiuco bis arrival in tho colony. Ho waa well educated, and would hove no difficulty in earning his living if ho tried. Ho seemed to bo addioted to tbo opium habit, and was as much to bo pitied as blamed. Ho was a dangerous impostor, who had begun a practice of medicine, but hod no qualifications as a medioal man. Accused, in roply. Btatod that ho oamo down bora to join the Mntatua and return to the Old Country, but there were no vnoanoioß. A similar fate met him when ho applied to go Heme by tho Wniwera. If His Worship would give him a chance ho would try and pay his debts to tho hotelkeepers. The accused uppers to be well connected in England, and his par» ants had written urging him to givo up tho opium habit and lead an honest life, Accused waa sentenced to three months 1 imprisonment,