MAGISTRATE’S COURT, GREY.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1917, Page 1

MAGISTRATE’S COURT, GREY.

As a sequel to the sedition charge at Greymouth yesterday, Aubrey Houston was, on the information of M. J. Fitzgerald was charged with, (1) using obscene 'language, and (2) refusing to leave Fitzgerald’s hotel when ordered to do so. The Magistrate held that no obscene language had been used. - and after hearing 'lengthy evidence his Worship said that oven assuming that defendant had behaved in

smell a manner as to induce the licensee to order him off the premises, the statement that the defendant had been ordered to.leave the hotel was not borne out* by the evidence, and the information would therefore be dismissed.

An action was commenced in the •Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth, yesterday against the Blackball Miners’ Union. wherein it was fought to recover on the information of Thomas George Feilder, Inspector of Awards, the sum of £‘4oo penalties from the defendant union for instigating unlawful strikes at the Blackball mine, and also with inciting a continuance of such unlawful strikes'. The dates of the alleged offences were the 23rd and 24th . of January and tho sth February, two separate offences n which it was sought to recover £2OO penalty in respect of each under section 6 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration lAct Amendment, 190 S. After hearing evidence and counself’ argument, the Magistrate reserved his decision.