CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2218, 5 April 1881, Page 3

CAUSE AND EFFECT.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sib, —In to day’s papers appears the report of six cases heard before the Supreme Court yesterday. I do not know the expense per diem of the Supreme Court, but whatever it is the amount should be added to the annual drink bill of New Zealand. The six cases yesterday were, first, one which should not have occupied a Supremo Court at all ; second, one caused by drink, witness the evidence :—Sergeant Felton gave evidence as to the drinking habits of the prisoner, who, ho said, was generally regarded as a silly weak man. Mr Moffat gave the prisoner a good character when sober. Third, one caused by drink, witness the prisoner’s statement: —The prisoner, who was undefended,pleaded guilty, and said that the cause of the crime was that ho had been drinking, and was stupefied with drink at the time he committed it. Fourth, one caused by drink, witness the evidence : The case for tbe prosecution was that the prosecutor, in the presence of the prisoner, changed a £lO note, and that he afterwards fell asleep in the Ashburton Hotel. Tbe fifth, a case of burglary, cause not shown, but very probably induced by drinking habits. Sixth, drink again, witness the evidence : The prisoner during that day got intoxicated and was discharged, when he made use of threatening language. Comment is needless. Yours, &c., TEMPERANCE.