LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 10

LYTTELTON NEWS.

c MAGISTRATE'S COURT. >[-r.-r; W. C. C'.oary and F. K::if;W=. .I.l'. s, presided at the Magistrate's Court y<--tciv!ny. ilor.'r Ho"..icn. eluvf etewaru ::i tao Cit" of r.ri'to;. .'h;irperi Bido Balian. en Arabiar. boy in the vps-w!, with os»ault. Conni'iiriani- cave cv : c?r.oo tl:ni. on Ssil-v.nl-iv ni'.ornoon. ,io:t"dTn« s;i«;tl v.iU»^ : * fnr -o:;io .-cup n'.it-??. Wiuw* rotused tJ. 5..;j,,.'.,- tho piV.te-., I'.ryj the dofetidajit push«>i tn»*jilat->s a.-i;l.\ a , , '.he esr-.j time mutlerir.T in ar. :r.3::?;:nj limnKcf. ' Wtnose r*>monstrßicd with tpo fl<M*r,jAr.t. ar.vl emac&ed hi- faeo. Drfowi-in: t1:on rusbed at wi> r,c.=s, .T-v.i him fo* sft«*n mimiVf. at ilv> t-.-.a t'i wjiich :iu:o :ho cook s?pariWu ihsni. Aiviwi Mid 'v- sot tr.j Wo ikhtins. puu fc' t iarat«d '.hew Tho rhif. yt?war..i "li? had 'nou-rli to.' mooch and 'v.".!v and ih ,v :i nn>?-")i." T!v» u;f?udnnt *aid ho had aekM thochi.-i Ftowiird f'T '.he pliitos, and w«.s toid tha» .-!•> h;:ci "f:x aireatlv." Ho asked a^ain, v.v.A \'t:c ciii?: Wi J . "Go- owl. you b'aclc . <i<":'i talk :.-> me," at the sarr.o time nittws •in tlu- J boo. Dof-?udu.r.t pci-niitU-d that lie th:r. foug!:t with comjiiniiinnt. In iii = :n;esine tli* cn.«e. tho Bench Ss.\l thtit- the coaiplainan; hnd not rcc'ived any provoi-aiior. to warrant his etrilcßg defendant in tho ice*, and defendant "°"-« not hav? been much of a man if hi had .not retaliated.