Huntly S.M. Court.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 26 September 1913, Page 3

Huntly S.M. Court.

(Mr E. Rawson, S.M.. presiding.) I The cases brought before the I S.M. on Friday last were few, I and, accordingly the sitting was | brief. A resident answering to a j charge of using bad language on the main road explained that he j had a habit of conversing with j himself, and, if the language used had offended anyone he was sorry. Such a thing would ! not occur again. The magis- j trate, however, was not sym- j pathetic, and the soliloquy cost the defendant a pound, to which seven shillings costs were added. : For failing to render the per- j sonal service demanded by the Defence Act in not attending parades or the camp of instruc- j tion held at Cambridge, a young i man was fined twenty shillings | and seven shillings costs, i Four residents living on the west bank of Die river were j 1 charged with trespassing on H y ' | warned by notices and other- : j wise not to do so. Mr Robert- | ! son, who appeared for the plain- j tiff, explained that his client dM | not press fora penalty, his main j j desire being to stop a practice ( j that resulted in broken fences I end cut wires. The title to the ! land showed that plaintiff’s rights ! extended to the middle of the ' ■ river, and that there was no j . I right of way along li.e river . I banks as defendants appeared to j tl ink. The way t rough f I private property was a short cut I which saved the men in question ; 1 ! about three minutes’ walk. His : Worship explained tin* p o * n. ] and having satisfied the det onj dants that they had no right on ! the ground, their promise to dts--1 continue the trespass was taken I for granted, and tho case disi mliicud