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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1917, Page 4

LATE NEWS.

fPBB PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT], Anti-Shouting. WHANGABEI, March 15. As a result of police surveillance no fewer than nineteen anti-shouting, cases came before itlie Whangarei Magistrate’s Court, Mr Barton, S.M., presiding. The proceedings were very protracted. Thomas Marshall fir treating at Burnaby Hotel was fined £2O. Thomas Blood, the proprietor of tho same hotel, had to answer two charges for knowingly selling liquor illegally, and was fined £3O for “permitting treating,” and-convicted' and discharged in the charge of “knowingly selling.” ’The Magistrate commented that tho law was not only- intended to prevent from allowing drinking to excess and disgracing the * King’s uniform, but to curtail unnecessary expenditure on luxuries; while it was all-important to help the .State by every means to bring the war to a successful issue.

Seditious Utterance ' AUCKLAND, March 15 At Pukekohe Police Court Rafo Autunovich aged 31 years a native of Dalmatia, wag charged with having made a seditious utterance in the hearing of his family, this being the first case of its kind heard in tile Dominion. Tho words used were “The Kaiser is a great man, and I take off my hat to him. •“The British are tho biggest mugs I ever saw.. “My brothers are giving you a good licking. “Now I am a German not ail-Aus-trian. “Lord Kitchener was tho biggest liiug I ever saw, and ho could not hold a candle to the Kaiser. “The Kaiser is a second Napoleon and he is the cleverest man ever born, and the first thing I will do when Germany wins the war is to kick your “I would sell all my secrets to Ger many, and why should 1 he naturalised and fight for the British.” The police stated that the accused had only been in tho district for a few months and posed as a naturalised Dalmation, but they had reason to be lieve that he was not naturalised. The mother in law. Amelia Turnbull, gave evidence that the accused made the statement at the breakfast table in the presence of his wife and herself. Counsel for accused submitted that the case was only a family quarrel, and the regulations were never intended to pry into a private house. The accused denied making the statement. The Magistrate in imposing twelve months’ imprisonment, said he would place the fa'ets before the Minister, for him to decide whether internment .should bo substituted for imprisonment.