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MONDAY, JULY 5. Messrs. F. W. Riacli and John Warren J.P.’s presided over a sitting of the Polico Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS. One first offender, who pleaded guilty to being drunk on Saturday, was fined 10s with costs 2s, in default 24 hours imprisonment, and William Sparks, a second offender was convicted and fined £1 with 2s costs, in default 4 days’ imprisonment. STOWAWAYS. John Nelson and Charles Anderson Rump were charged with travelling on the'".s.s. Tarawera, from Auckland, on Sunday, July 4th, without having paid their fares. Both pleaded guilty. Detective ltawle said nothing was known against the men, but it was usual, just before a race meeting, for a certain class of individuals to flow into the town, and if they could not pay their fares they came as stowaways. . Nelson said he came to Gisborne to get work, and Rump said he understood his fare was paid by a friend before he got on the boat. Both accused were fined £2 in default 14 days’ imprisonment. The Bench refused to allow time in which to pay the fine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2546, 6 July 1909, Page 4
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181MAGISTERIAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2546, 6 July 1909, Page 4
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