FINED FOR SEDITION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 963, 13 March 1917, Page 10

FINED FOR SEDITION.

PUBLICAN IH TSOuBLE. Press Association. ■ GEEYMOUTH, March 13. Ma -ice Fitzgerald, a hotelkcreper, was to-day convicted and fined "£25, with £lO costs," on a charge of sedition. The disloyal statements were made in a hotel bar-parlour. Mr Hutchison, S.M., in giving judgment, said that he considered the' case as serious, although it was not comparable with some noted cases in the Dominion, where imprisonment had been ordered. In fixing the penalty, he bory in mind that the conviction might possibly involve other consequences for the defendant.