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(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON,, December 21. As a sequel to the inquest on Saturday Robert Charles Collins was to-day charged with unlawfully assaulting and claying John Ferguson.
A remand was granted to tli3 29th D?c^mbei
NEW IPLYMOUTH, December 21. A .local milkman was fined £2 and ccsts for suWyirig milk containing less than the regulation proportion of solids.
WELLINGTON, December 21. John Cecil, a foreigner, to-day pleaded guilty to using obscene language on Thorndon Quay, on sth December. Station Sorgfant Darby cad that, the ca.To was'so bad that people crossed the Quay to get beyond earshot. "As-bad a pare -as I- ever heard," exclaimed Dr'MbAftliur, S.M., after hearing tho evidence, "there is no excufo at all; it|is no case for a fine. You will be sritfbnced to three months' imprisonment."
DUNEDIN, December 21Iti the Police' Court this afternoon, Robert Forbes pleaded not guilty to a ■charge that, bring mast3r of the steamer Gowanburn, ho did permit a Chinaman to land without fulfilling the requirements of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908. Defendant was fined £5 Is with eosfe (£3 10s). A second charge was withdrawn. If this Chinesa is not recaptured the Company will bo responsible fo^llie payment of the poll tax. Ho left'itho ship at Lyttelton.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 22 December 1908, Page 5
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207COURTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 22 December 1908, Page 5
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