DUNEDIN NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1888, Page 2

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(BY telegraph.—-own correspondent.)

Dunedin, this day. A QUEER CASE.

At the City Police Court John Burke, who created a diversion at the Volunteer Parade on Thursday was charged with drunkenness. Prisoner, who pleaded guilty, said that it was owing to his having only got out of prison on the previous day, and it being Queen's Birthday he felt compelled to drink her health. Unfortunately, however, some friends of his overstepped the bounds of hospitality and got him locked up. He had made engagements for leaving here by steamer, and under the circumstances he would ask the Bench to exercise their prerogative of Her Most Gracious Majesty and show him their merciful clemency. The Bench stopped the accused in the midst of an eloquent harangue and sentenced him to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. Upon this, the prisoner smote his forehead with his open hand, and turning his eyes upwards, exclaimed with a theatrical air, "God save Ireland." RITUALISM. The vestry of St. John's, Roslyn, having made certain representations bo bhe incumbent with respect to certain ritualistic observances, and having held several meetings without any satisfactory result, seven of the nine vestrymen and two churchwardens have resigned their seats and presented a petition for a parish meeting to consider the whole question.