"Sing, Sweet Bird."
While a young lady was singing " Sing, sweet bird at an Auckland concert last week, John Quinn, her brother, lost his temper badly because one Cashed, a sharebroker, standing at the back of the hall, began humming the air. Quinn went up aim l . ,-i U Cashel, called him a—cad, and assaulted him. It was admitted that the parties were wholly unacquameed, and the defence was that Cashel spoke disparagingly concerning Miss Quinn. In giving his decision Mr Northcroft, S.M., said he did not believe that Mr Cashel used the words as to Miss Quinn, nor that Mr Quinn heard such words ; but the latter heard the " humming," and that annoyed him. He did not want to mar defendant's life, or he would send him to Mount Eden, for even if the words had been used, was a public hall the proper place to act as he had done ? Defendant was fined £7, with £2 12s costs, or, in c'. :.s':it of payment, two months' im-pri-xjiiment, and he was also bound eve r ij keep the peace for 12 months ir. two sureties of £25 and himself of *25.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 4
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192"Sing, Sweet Bird." Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 4
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