Befbro J. H. Home, Esq., J.P., and H. Morrow, E?q., J.P.) DRUNKARDS. JOIIII Murphy was fined 20?. and the costs or S hours' hard labour, for bciog druak and Lisorderly. UUYINO soldiers' clothes. Mary Burke was brought up charged with laving bought of a soldier one pair of soldier's >antaloons, value Ds. 2d. The prisoner pleaded guilty, but said in deenee that she was ignorant that the pantaloons vere different from any other. The presiding Justices ordered the articles to je exhibited, and the well-known red stripe uijnmg from waist to toe most unmistakably betrayed to whom the property belonged. Pined £3, and £1 7s. Gd., being treble the raluo of the pantaloons. This concluded the business.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 901, 3 October 1866, Page 5
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