1644
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

(2.) Where the person accused has an interest in the property so damaged or destroyed the existence of such interest, if partial, shall not prevent his act from amounting to an offence under this clause; and, if total, shall not prevent his act from amounting to such offence if done with intent to defraud.

(3.) Every person who commits an offence against this clause shall be liable to three years’ imprisonment if the damage done or intended to be done by him amounts to ten pounds or more, and shall in other cases be liable to six months’ imprisonment.

174. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who uses any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned.

175. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who is guilty of any disorderly conduct in any public place to the annoyance of persons there present.

176. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who furiously or negligently rides or drives any animal or vehicle in a public place.

177. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who permits any horse, sheep, pig, goat, or cattle to wander or be at large in any public place or to trespass upon any land.

178. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who without lawful justification obstructs any public place, or creates any source of danger therein, or otherwise commits any public nuisance therein.

179. Every one is liable to imprisonment for one month or to a fine of ten pounds who is found drunk in any public place.

180. Any common prostitute who loiters and importunes passengers or other persons in any public place for the purpose of prostitution is liable to imprisonment for one month or to a fine of five pounds.

181. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who without lawful justification places any poison in any place so as to be a source of danger to human beings or to animals.

182. Every one is liable to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of fifty pounds who throws any offensive matter into or otherwise pollutes any river, watercourse, well, cistern, or other place whence the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants is obtained.

183. Every one is liable to imprisonment for one month or to a fine of twenty pounds who sells, or exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell, any food or drink which he knows or might by the exercise of reasonable care have known to be unwholesome.

184. Every one is liable to a fine of ten pounds who permits any premises in his occupation or belonging to him to be in an insanitary or offensive condition to the danger or annoyance of the public or of his neighbours.

185. Every one is liable to a fine of five pounds who wilfully trespasses on land in the occupation of any other person.

186. (1.) Every one is liable to imprisonment for one month or to a fine of ten pounds who cruelly beats, overdrives, overloads, abuses, tortures, or otherwise ill-treats any animal, or who, being the owner or having the charge of any animal, omits to supply it with proper and sufficient food, water, or shelter.

(2.) In this clause the term “animal” means any beast or bird of any species whatever.

187. Every one is liable to a fine of one hundred pounds who uses in connection with his trade or business any name, design, device, or other representation indicating or calculated to lead other persons to believe contrary to the fact that such trade or business is that of an incorporated company, and in any prosecution for an offence against this clause the burden of proving that such incorporated company exists and that the trade or business so carried on is the trade or business of that company shall be upon the accused.

188. Every one who conspires with any other person to commit any offence punishable by imprisonment is liable to imprisonment for one-half of the longest term to which a person committing the said offence may be sentenced.