A young man named Joseph Butter was brought bofore Messrs. J. M. Dargaville and Frederick Norton, J.P.'e, charged with hivving been drunk on the 23rd int., on tho Mangawhare racecourse, on the occasion of the sports, and with using obscene langiwgo within the hearing of two ladies, being a breach ot the Police Offences Act, ISS4, section 24. He pleaded guilty to the first offence, but denied knowledge of the latter, which was proved by. Constable N. Scott and a witness, ami the Bench, considering the abominable nature of the language ÜBed, and which it determined to punish on every similar occasion, sentenced tho accused to fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour. The {prisoner stated that he had never been brought before any Court previously, and but for having been drunk would "sooner have drowned himself" than niiido uso of the expressions attributed to him.—[Dargavillo Correspondent.], So dolioious ! Such a luxury ! Qnite a treat! Yet 8o cheap.! .Artliuc Nathan's Teas. , 71
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8585, 5 June 1891, Page 5
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