NOT IDENTICAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES.
Sir, —I noticed in your issue of Saturday last that a man, with a name similar to my own, was charged with being drunk and incapable. As the Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons are now becoming numerous among us, I would suggest that the Bench should put formal questions about age and occupation ? The press could then give the report thus : " John Blank, 45, labourer, was charged, &c.," this, I believe, is the practice with the English newspapers. It has the additional advantages, that it fixes on the proper person the odium attached to his offence, and also distinctly points out, whom it does not refer to.
Yours, &c., JOHN HUGHES, Bookseller. Cashel street, June 14.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1414, 17 June 1865, Page 5
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124NOT IDENTICAL. Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1414, 17 June 1865, Page 5
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