EESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
■♦ (Before H. M'Culloch, Esq., E.M.). Tuesday, 18th Febkttaey. John Turner was sentenced to a week's imprisonment with hard labor for being drunk and usiriK obscene language in Dee-street on Monday evening. J. Hatch was charged by the police with a breacli of the Protection of Animals Act, 1872, which forbids the killing of Baals except during the months of June, July, August, and September, nndtT a penalty aot exceeding £20 for each seal so killed. Mr Hatch is the owner of the sealing schomef Nancy, which sailed from this port in November, and returned on lOlh Februa-y with about 400 seal-skins. Mr Hatch admitted responsibility, but pleaded that tho Act had not arrived in town when the Nuncy sailed, and that he was not acquainted with its provisions. liis Worship said that every citizen was presumed to know the law, but as the Act did not appear to have reached Invercargill till some time after the sailing of the Nancy, he would inflict a mitigated penalty of £1, and £1 6s 61 cost?. Offences of a like kind in future would be more severely punished.
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Southland Times, Issue 1705, 21 February 1873, Page 2
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188EESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Southland Times, Issue 1705, 21 February 1873, Page 2
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