CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6495, 6 December 1882, Page 4

CITY POLICE COURT.

■■.-' .'■ - ■ TDESDAYJgfJTH D«OEMBEB.;i:v3. ;i?.f: v :> ..,.;' . (Before B. Hi 'CarpW; ; Es<j.,"K.M.);: \ : ;f -.", DBDNK^NESs.^ThreeV.'p^rsoni?werel dealt '; with for this.pffeice. ,' J :"",-'■'■ .'*.","":-':.,"v!..1.-. Obscene Likd.uSijilTrEllen. Barry,- f or* nsing „;' dbscene language iTOtKinlffiohearmjg'6l "per- *' sons passing in Stafford street,, was, fined Mb, . or' seven days' imprisonment.' -There^were':^7 : previous convictions againat the accuseds ' -•' "'■ ; The Lioensinq AoT.j-E,bene^erjKJbgsf(Jr^ was charged. ; .'^b^-^a)illWi^.^'t^e7Uw./!Kov..'. 'rem^ri-atthyp^^d^Hojjel^^(>l4^e^'.%?^^'<' William'Tpcigppd -'dur^^rbhibJ^'^oiiMj-T".." Mr Macdonald,'appeared for^the'a&usea^?. William Toogobd state^'that oni t&ejdat&men-; .' tioned he vren|for,beer to tlio hbtel,between' 8 and 9 p.m.", and 'afterwards' returned Mid '■■- obtained more ahsMy" beer, as. it was given him hj- .the,»ceused/»a compensation';'for l_a. ijtiart' wniph He had.'-ppr:. chased 'some^fayk'jfayjoy&yyj&dyjtbii&ijjtaii'. thick.—Under^these,cpcums^c^»Vla?pectbr.. Weldon said tiiat the police wo\ild,npt proceed with the ease if His Wcrship could not consider the liquor, as having^beeti'soli-iMr'CiiSjw^ .'mid'tna.t'w.farvbe^id' : &t^&^tb«" l e*ni^t£e?;' disclosed r anpffence,"and' the" ,C«e <,was*;."xlii} C missed." ' ~ "'■'■'-"■■ -■-■■<•'■—■'"•■ ■>■■■■<*-■ "4;;;;':;!;;;-.r- o- ---•' 'The Stotem , oifr i :RAt;rt!B.^JaHie»p-H.- t:P.: v Braid was charged W^h^ayin^li^lajpfunjr^isY, posed of a Korse i t9\6he'J*mt3.Vßr6jvil,l>y.j» Z game of chance,' In/.yhich^the4£aid; f tio«eommj, - thrown for as a prize by. tne use of^diceirrMf : Maedotiald, on behalf of tfie'def endant,_ pleaded ■ guilty,' but stated that the latter was ignorant, that he was- cominittuig W;breach.6f "the law,'. As this was .the" first instance iin IwhichTthe", police had taken'notice of such, raffles, he sub-. , mitted that a low penalty Ihouldbe inflictediS-. Inspector Weldon said (that tKe'defjendMit^wno was a respectable settler," conducted jbhV.rame," quite openly, ahd.he believed unwittinglyV^The'r charge had been brought.merely io;intim»te.,'tp.'the publio that they'were .ppohibited>^y>,^ie. law from disposing'of; the& goods'by'gainei of' chance.—His Worship,I;tinder these' cifcum-"* stances, imposed-d'fifte of _6s and'costs.'-r^ln a similar chargeagainsyWilliamßraidi of disr'posing of a ham under' the same circumstances, alike fine was imposed.. ,' ■,"'•.'"■■ " ->-.:..: