"POLICE COURT
DRUNKENNESS.John Smith, Edmund Hyde, Joseph Chaplin, Anthony Cowan, John Tunis and William Moyes were punished for this offence in the usual manner."
NOTE: In New Zealand the Vagrant Act (1866) used the term “habitual drunk” to describe people who had been abusing alcohol for more than three months and had three court appearances related to alcohol. Anthony Cowan/Corvan eventually had this label attached to him. The following comment was also printed in the DSC in 1867:
"There were fourteen drunkards brought before his Worship yesterday morning, and it would seem that, notwithstanding the scarcity of money, it can be found to get drunk upon. It is said that Wednesday being the day on which pensions are paid had something to do with the increase."
-Daily Southern Cross, July 5, 1867.
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