Trouble over a Glasa of Water At H. M. Police Court on, Tuesday morning, before Mr. G. W. King, Herbert Hart, unemployed, was charged with having beaten a Chinese at the Hanbury Institute about 8 a.m. on the 24th instant.
The complainant, a dining room boy, said that at: breakfast time on Monday a foreigner came into the, Institute from outside snd asked for an iced drink.. Witness, told him that the ice had not yet arrived. Then the accused swore at him and hit him three tight blows with his fist. Witness was not hurt. The guests sebacated them.
Cross-examined—The foreigner did not himself get a bottle of water from the kitchen. Witness did not try to kick accused.
John Mooney said he was in the hall of the Institute at 8 a.m. on Monday and saw the complainant being pushed out of the dining-room by the accused, who was striking him. Accused followed the boy aS far as the kitchen. Witness told him to stop and leave it to the manager.
A Chinese steward said that he was in the kitchen from six o'clock onwards. He saw the accused chase the complainant and hit him three or four blows. No foreigner came to the kitchen for a bottle of water.
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