DISORDERLY HOUSES. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, 27th August.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1894, Page 2

DISORDERLY HOUSES. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, 27th August.

Dealing in the Snpreme Court with tho case of Mary Keeshan, charged with keeping a disorderly house, her eounsol said it was the first oase under tho Criminal Code Act. The Crowu Prosecutor said tho house was not a noisy one of its kind, tho girls who had been kept there were not of the lowest class, and the man who frequented tho place were by no means of the lowest class. Mr. Justice Williams— Why has this particular house been singled out? Tho Crown Prosocutor— Some saintly people live in the neighbourhood. His Honour Baid there had been a sort of tacit toleration of these houses so long as they were not a nuisanoo to the neighbourhood. It was only last year the Legislature, in set terms, declared the keeping of these houses an offence. From the Code it was olearly the intention of the Legislature to suppress these houses. Whether that was politic or practicable was no affair of his. Thero were very good reasons, however, why the acoused Bhould not suffer severe punishment. He would, therefore, inflict 11 days' imprisonment, with the remark that if similar oases were brought before him the imprisonment would be heavier, beoauso the Legislature had olearly expressed its intention, and it was hiß duty to give effeot to it.