BREACH OF THE RAILWAY. BY-NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2626, 13 July 1904, Page 16

BREACH OF THE RAILWAY. BY-NEWS.

! At -the City Police CourL on Thursday last F.dwaid M-Gmty pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having, on May 24, sent as commercial travelIcis' luggage iiom Dunedin to Otautau, on tlie New Zealand Government railways, certain goods — to wit, two packages, whereas the saicl packages contained goods other than goods the bona fide propeity or the samples, of the said Edward M'Ginty, intended for exhibition, o'lly, contra ly to the by-laws of the New Zealai'd Government railways.— Mr J. F. M. Fiaser appeared for the Railway Department, and stated that the defendant was charged! under by-law 21 of the New Zealand Government lailways. The defendant was a commercial tia\eller. repiesenting a Christchurch. firm, and was the holder of a .£SO ticket. He was entitled to a special concession in the shape of half rates under regulation 27. these lates lefeiring to luggage earned with passengeis. On May 2"S the defendant picsented himself at the J)ur>cdm Railway Stat'on and' booked two packages — one a basket ard theother a wrapped package. It was pointed oitfc thai the wrapped package could not be carried xtnder section 21, and the defendant x>aid excess rates. The basket left Dunedin by the express, and was received at Otautau, and. it turneel cut that the basket contained goods &o'.d for delivery. The defendant did not travel by tiaun to Otautau, but left for Christchuvch the same mormrg. — The defendant stated that on the morning in question he booked the goods for Otautau, but missed the train himself, and later on went to Chrisfchuich. There was not o.ie traveller in 99 who knew he was not entitled to carry goods. He wired to the blr-tioii master ft Olaatau asking him to hand over the goods, which showed that the act had not been committed with any gwltv mtentun.—His "Worship slid it seemed the defendant had taken a voiy mean advantage of a very liberal allowance made by the Government! and conduct such as that was apt io tell in another due:tion by causing the de- : pnitment to take avay the pu\ileges that had been granted. He thought the pie=ont was as b.id a case as oi c could have, and thei" w-a«i no mitigation for such an offence. The defendant wouM be fined £10. with costs (£1 8s).

Amerlein economi-ts state that in 1860 only about 12 per coat of the population lived in the cities. Ten years lat&r t\\& census '-howpc! that tho porcentasre of iirbaa population had rUci to nearly 21 per eont. S'nco then it had steadily grown, until id 1900 more than 33 of every 100 Americans were living in cities.

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