DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1890, Page 5

DUNEDIN.

There was a large crowd about the wharf yesterday afternoon, the occasion being a mock trial and the burning of an effigy of a wharf labourer who had joined the Beautiful Star.

The man had been on the Harbour Board dredge, and was an hon. member of the Wharf Labourers' Union, bub had shipped as a seaman on the Star.

An effigy of him was prepared and paraded down to the wharf abreast of the steamer, where the mock trial took place. After the man had been called up from the hold to witness the proceedings, the effigy, which was stuffed with crackers and gunpowder, was then set fire to.

Two men were arrested yesterday afternoon for alleged assault on two non-Union-ists on Saturday night. The men's names are George Ryan and Thos. Dillon, and they will be brought up ab the Court to* day, when ib is probable a private information will be laid against them.

At the City Court, before Mr Carew, R.M., George Ryan and Thomas Dillon were chaiged with maltreating a man reburning from non-Unidn work on the Te Kapo on Saturday.

After the evidence, counsel withdrew the plea of "Not guilty," urging in extenuation that the men were under the influence of liquor, and the offence not beiDg in itself serious, JRyan was fined £5, or 14 days, cumulative on each charge, viz., threatening behaviour and assault; and Dillon £1 in each case, or three days.

Among those discharged ab Hillside is Robertson, one of the oldest railway hands in the district.