THE SALVATION ARMY AND SKELETON ARMY AT TIMARU

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6817, 22 September 1883, Page 5

THE SALVATION ARMY AND SKELETON ARMY AT TIMARU

[by telegraph.—press,,association/} , -.-. -J..,-' TiMAßr},' ,) Captain Smith, of tho/Salvation-;.Army,'- i was fined 10a to-day for.: obstiuctingl-,the '• street, by causing a crowd to Collect," ini' ' formation being laid under : clause ;U,' sub- ; section 26, of the Canterbury Police Ordi- 1 nance, 1859. Formal notice of appeals'to 1 the Supreme Court was given in tho pre- j sence of tlie magistrate inflicting penalty, 1 who addressed defendant as follows :—" We < do not wish that the ordinary proceedings 1 of your processions should beinterfered with, but there must Uβ some limit to the conduct I of these processions. You have a right to ■ pass along the streets With a hand and ; banners, but it Will be well to bear in mind that while yoti may consider you arp doing everything that is right and proper, you may be causing annoyance to a great number of people in to»7n. I think I might ask you to use some discretion, and endeavour not to raise a feeling of opposition against you,. The Beiich in this case inflicted the penalty' because they have to administer" the law3s '] they find it." A second information .was '; withdrawn. Several members of the Skele : ' , ton Army were charged with'the same offence ', as Smith, and a conviction was agreed to'bii the same terms, one of tnein being fined io'3 and costs. f '