A KEG PARTY.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1925, Page 4

A KEG PARTY.

YOUNG .MEN IN TROGHLE. DAXNEYIREE, Aug. 7. The gift, of a keg of beer to a party of voting men at Maharahara in July la'st had disastrous consequences for those who participated in the jollification. The sequel occurred in the Court at Dannevirke when seven men were charged on four informations with committing mischief and assaulting George Tapp, a middle-aged man. Tapp alleged that defendants went to the cottage where he was living, taking with them a keg of beer, battered in the back door, pulled him out into the yard, and when he refused to drink beer one of them threw it in his i face. Later the same tiling occurred inside the house. Tapp also .alleged that one of the men. Davii 1 Jubilee Gilchrist, threw him across the table and threatened him with a butcher’s knife and also attempted to force a pill down his throat. Tapp called for mercy, but nobody went to his assistance. It also was alleged that I app s bed clothing was set on lire and the wall-paper in the bedroom set alight. At one invitation to drink lit))]) in evidence said be acceded, saying: “Here's luck.” and the company sang “Kor He’s a Jolly Good bellow.” After a lengthy hearing during which defendants denied committing the offences alleged. the Justices. Messrs AY. Dobson and Ferrier Walker convicted all the defendants on the charge of assault, sentencing Gilchrist to fourteen days’ hard labour without the option. William James Stanley Howes and Douglas M’Nicol each were lined CIO of it month. Worthington Powell. Ernest Charles Glass. Edward Genrne Lines and Arthur Edward Dean were each lined £3 or fourteen days. On the charge of damage Gilchrist. Powell. Lines, Glass and Dean were convicted and fined amounts varying from C2 to 12s. and on another were ordered to come up for sentence d called noon i.n twelve months, and costs, ill addition to being ordered to pay the amount of the damage. Security lor appeal in each case '