MAGISTRATES' COURTS.
CHRISTOHURCH. Feiday, April 18. (Before Or. L. Mellißh, Esq., R.M., and Messrs Hall and Harman, J.P.'e.) Det/nk and Disobdkhly— Three drunkards were fined respectively 20s, 10s, and ss. # A fourth, who was remanded from the previous day, protested that he could bring a thousand witnesses of the highost respectability to show that he was not in the habit of drinking to excess. A list of eleven previous convictions, and the fact that whon remanded he was completely hors dd combat, was accepted by the Bench as prima fane evidenoe of his inebriety, and he was accordingly fined 10s also.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1610, 18 April 1879, Page 2
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