POVERTY BAY.
Robert Charles Brown was committed for trial on the 18th on a charge of assaulting a. Chinaman, who had been laid up for a month through an injury to his head, alleged to have been caused by a stone thrown when the Chinaman came out of his bouse at night to expostulate w ith stonethrowers.
Constable John Thomas Trwin ■was on the 21st fined £1 and oosts (£9), in default i seven days' imprisonment, for using undue ■violence in removing from c. hotel a ] drunken man. The magistrate character-^ ised defendant's action in strong termt ■•"j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 25
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98POVERTY BAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 25
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