" Gentlemen ot the jury,” said a blundering counsel, in a suit about a lot of hogs, ” there were just thirty-six hogs in that drove; please to remember that fact—thirty-six hogs—just three times as many as there are in the jury box, gentlemen.” That counsel did not gain his case. At tho Police Court on Thursday D. McKenzie was charged with unlawfully conveying seven sheep in such a manner as to subject such sheep to unneceseary suffering. After hearing the evidence the Bench considered that as the prisoner had beenlocked up for tho night previous he had received sufficient punishment, and would therefore only fine him la] and; J’s OMtSi
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 283, 6 April 1889, Page 2
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109Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 283, 6 April 1889, Page 2
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