CHRISTCHURCH MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
[by telegraph.] Christchubch, Tuesday. At; the Magistrate's Court to-day six bookmakers were fined £2 and costs each for being illegally on the Plumpton Park racecourse on March 4th. Charles Fryer was charged with being in possession of an illicit still on March 13th. He pleaded guilty. Accused said he was a financial agent worth .£3OO or JB4OO. He had met a man who said he had a patent washing machine, and accused agreed to find the money to place it on the market. He ha.d taken the so-called washing machine in a cart, intending to carry it to a house at Eiccarton, where it was to be set up. The Collector of Customs found the still in the cart, and arrested the accused The Magistrate said the case was not one for the minimum fine, and inflicted a penalty of ,£IOO. C, Gr. Wall was charged with having sold and distributed indecent matter contained in medical advertisements in the Town and Country Journal, and in the Referee. A letter from the proprietor of the former paper was read in Court, stating that a special edition was being sent to New Zealand on account of the restrictive laws regarding objectionable advertisements. The nominal fine of .£2O and costs was inflicted in each case.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11173, 15 March 1899, Page 3
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215CHRISTCHURCH MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11173, 15 March 1899, Page 3
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