The Nelson Evining Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 155, 28 June 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evining Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1873.

The Rev. W. Cannell will preach in the Wealeyan Church; to-morrow, morning and evening. All Saints' Chukch.~-A parish eonveisazione in connection with ['-this Church is advertised to be held on Monday evening next at the Masonic HalK Short papers on Chuieh matters will be read, and there will be vocal and instrumental music at intervals -'through /the i' evening.-..' Goteunment Works. —Several ten? dera were received at the Superintendent's /office, ibis; morning^/or the construction of a gas-bo;ldeY, and for the erection of a I bridge over the Maitai. Reasons existed for not coming to a decision at once, and t he tenders will pot be available for publication uni.il Monday. I " Hte DiRUiSK ?—-Whet;hßr or not a manVwaa; really intoxicated at agiven timej judges, magistrates, lawyers,; and constables have frequently been puzzled to f decide. An infallible rule, however, has been, laid down by a Lyttellpn policeman. A man is not:'* real drunk" until he falls xlpwn; ■■■'-:. ■ c " M.r?" W. }■ H; PilHet, Resident Magisjirate at Akaroa, was recently charged! v^ith r'being ; drunk and .disorderly, a charge!, ; : which, it is only fair ;to say, was disraissed. In the courß.e:of the trial, the : foUo^ing evidence, was given, the witness .evidently being a man to whose opinion much weight /should be attached :r— "Wijlujra/Eares— l am a constable of; -po.lict» stationed i at Lyttelton.- I remember seeing the defendant Mr Pilliet, in Lyttelton, abputfiye o'clock on the afternoon of the 23rd May.* I had a conversation with him. I took, ootige pf his appearance and ftondition. . I have had a good many years' experience of the conduct and appearance of drunken persons. , I th'iuk..l know, from my experience, when - a man is drunk and when he is nofc drunk. RJr Pilliet was not drunk but the worse for liquor. I should say he was heavy under the influence of liquor. JJe was nut what I <;.ajl r.p-al- druuk. I thiok a man wfto falls down is real driink. I judued Mr Pilliet was heavy under the influence of liquor because he was excited, and while walking on the footpath be turned round pnceor twice and staggered, haying to steady * .-himself with an umbrella. He staggered on the steps of the Empire Hotel. When be came dyer to me and d«i»anded my name I got the smell of -the drink on him." Although he did not fall down, the question of the fitness of .Mr ' .Pilliet for the position of Resident Magistrate may fairly be raised upon the evidence of the Lyttelton policeman.