The Salvation Army.
(UNITED WtKSS ASSOCIATION.) Blenheim, April 28. At the Supreme Court, the Salvation Army procession case, Fildes v. Teasdale, came before the Court on appeal from the decision of the Eesident Magistrate dismissing the information on the ground that there was^ no evidence of obstruction, iMr Justice Richmond:' held that no question of law was involved, and that obstruction; was purely a matter of de«*ree. It did not appear from the evidence that the traffic m Market-place was obstruct, ed, and the Court could not hold that there was obstruction because a person ' could not strike a bee line from one place to another. His Honor admitted that these meetings m public places on Sunday afternoons might be annoying and injurious to the appellant, whose remedy might be by indictment for a nuisance. The Army must recollect that massing people together m that way, although" by professing Christains for religious purposes, might be a serious annoyance to individuals and the public * but m the present, case, as thp Resident Magistrate had found there was no evidence of obstruction, and as no point of law was involved, the appeal must be dismissed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 126, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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193The Salvation Army. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 126, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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