MAGISTERIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2670, 27 November 1909, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26. (Before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. John Rocliford, laborer, was fined 5s and 2s costs for drunkenness with the alternative of, 24 -hours imprisonment. A BY-LAW CAiSE.^ William Brown, bullock driver, who was represented by Mr T. A. Coleman, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Borough by-laws in having driven a dray onto the footpath in Bright Street on November 19tn. A fine of 10s and 7s costs was imposed. ASSAULT. Harry Hudson, a Te Arai farm hand, was milking cows on the morning of the 18th instant, when he saw John Leckie. a fellow employee, standing outside the .shed doing nothing. He called out to the other to help him, and on hip employer, Air Gibson, coming up, complained that Leckie was not doing his share of the work. Leckie protested, and an altercation ensued which resulted in his knocking Hudson out with a paling he was carrying at the time. The result was a prosecution for assault, in which Air L. T. Burnard represented tlie informant Hudson. Leckie pleaded “guilty under provocation.” Harry Hudson, in the witness box, said that Leckie approached him during the argument, and . he put out his hands to defend himself. His Worship: You put your fists up ? Witness: No. I generally put JiuJitsu on them. Air Gibson, farmer, who witnessed the affair, stated that both men got very excited and “talked fight, it looked as if Hudson was about to make a spring at Leckie when the latter .struck him. . The accused stated that the informant threatened to stand him on Ins head. He only struck him as he sprang at him. r His Worship fined the accused £3 and £2 12sr costs, £1 out of the fine to he paid to the informant, or 7 days’. Leckie elected to take it out in gaol. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Martin Englebretson was charged with having used oJbscone language in a public road at Te Karaka oil November'l3th. The accused pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. Sergt. Hutton said that the affair occurred late on a Saturday night,, when the accused was arguing with a group of other men. A line of £2 and 9s costs was inflicted.

During the discussion on mental or spiritual o healing at the Anglican Conference at Alasterton, it was stated that there was often a very undesirable and irksome antagonism on the part of medical men to the sick visitation of the clergyman, as though the minister visited the sick on alU.Uccasions to prepare them to die—while the opposite was the case, for m reality the minister sought to prepare the patient to live. Although there are many exceptions, as a rule there wa« not enough confidence and co-operation shown between the two great professions represented by. the clergyman and the doctor, whereas both alike shoulq mutually share the responsibility. Feebleness in old age is greatly overcome by Stearns’ Wine of pod Liver Extract. It gives new life to old tissues and helps and invigorates the whole system. • ■