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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 74, 31 March 1904, Page 4

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Hp KmreSPAY. MARCH MO. BflMtot Mr R. L. Stanford, S.JI.) fe-gmtJKKEN'NESS AND OBSCENE I?' " LANGUAGE. Kg Horn, an elderly man, l@h|ieded guilty to a charge of using BgjMitcepe language, but slated he was BSponk and provoked. Worship said this obscene lanjapguage was becoming too common in fethe streets, and it must be put gtl down. He sentenced accused to Ir seven days' imprisonment with hard | labour. f>W- B. Glover pleaded guilty to being SJ-- drunk in a railway carriage on £.» ' Mr Quilliam (Messrs Govett and " Quilliam) appeared for the accused, and asked the Bench to treat Uie case leniently, a» it was a tirst oi- « fence. Fined 10a and costs. The same accused was lined 40s . and costs for using obscene lun-:---guage, and a case of assault ' against him was withdrawu, as this tgas part of the same affair. V BOYS IN MISCHIEF. • Sydney Ross, a lad of 13 years. . Albert May, and Walter Smith, nged years, were charged with having set fire to an outbuildiflg, the properly of H. M. Skeet, at Fitzroy. Detective Quirke and .1. Reynolds gave evidence as to the offence. Two of the boys. Slay and Smith, - admitted the offence, stating that Ross was there also. " Sergeant Haddrell said the boy J Boss was beyond his parents' con- '• j trol, and applied to have him committed to the Burnham Industrial School. Mr A. Ross, the father, would not consent, as the boy's conduct was improving. h His Worship committed Iloss to 1 the school, to be brought up in the fi. Church of EnglancPfaith, the lather to pay five shillings per w«ek towards his support. Mr Malone, as amicus curiae, pointed out that Ross had not been asked to give his version of the affair. The Magistrate said tlie poliee gave the boy a bad name, and he • ■ could not alter his decision if Koss h .'made a statement. His Worship convicted and discharged the other & youths, -warning their parents to •• look after them or they might have ti» be sent to an Industrial school. -* The evidence of Mr Walter Chatterton, in a civil action Simpson v. s Chattcrton, for .the recovery of 15s for two cases of bananas supplied, was taken. This case will be heard : in Auckland. • The Court rose.