SLY GROG IN ASHBURTON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8786, 13 April 1907, Page 2

SLY GROG IN ASHBURTON.

Heivy Fines and Imprisonment. , Demonstration by Mob. Per Press Association. Ashburton, April 12. At the Magistrate’s Court, Mr Day, S.M., presiding, ten slygrog selling oases were heard. Frederick B. Eobinson, with One previous conviction, was sentenced to five weeks’ imprisonment on each of two charges, the sentences to be concurrent. Andrew Alexander was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Samuel Alexander, with three previous convictions, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Eobert Paterson was fined .£SO and ciSsts. Andrew Sutherland, Thomas Sutherland, Ellen Young and Mrs Arthur Madden, pleaded guilty and were each fined £lO and costs. Julia Hyland, with one previous conviction, on altering her plea from not guilty to guilty, was fined £4O and costs. Thomas ■Williams, with one conviction, was sentenced to five weeks’ imprisonment on one charge and convicted on two others. When the express train, conveying the sentenced men to Lyttelton jail, was leaving the station a demonstration was made by a mob, and one man was arrested for behaviour, likely to provoke a breach of the peace. Other arrests are pending.