POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 9 February 1906, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M.) The Inebriates.—Two first offenders, were fined 5/ and cab hire, in default 24 hours. In one case a prohibition order was also issued. Breaking Prohibition.—Mary McDonald, a prohibited person, was accused of being found in the Caledonian Hotel on February. 7. John Hall, porter at the hotel, said he found accused was sitting in a room of the hotel the worse for liqnor and he assisted her out, No liquor was served her in the hotel. Constable Scott gave evidence as to the arrest. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of £2 and costs 6/, in default one months imprisonment. Obscenity.—Walter Clark, a trimmer on the Ayrshire, was charged with using obscene language last night in Queenstreet. His Worship fined the man £2, in default 14 days. A Chinese Deserter.—Wong Nun, remanded from yesterday upon a charge of deserting from His Majesty's cable ship Iris, again appeared, when j\lr Mays, for the prosecution, asked for a remand for a month, in which time the Iris was expected back in port. Mr Mays said that there were four others involved in absconding from the ship, and he asked for this remand in order to avoid charging them under the charge of landing without paying the poll tax. His Worship accordingly granted the desired remand, much, to the disgust of the disappointed Celestial, who retired from the Court showing much comictl perturbation at the prospect of spending a month of retirement in His Majesty's gaol, awaiting the arrival of his ship. Up for Sentence.—Arthur H. Binsted, remanded for sentence on conviction for the theft of some £15 in October last, the property of Frederick James Andrews, was, upon an unfavourable port from the probation officer, sentenced to 4 months imprisonment with hard labour. ■ Lights Out and No Fare Sheet.— George Frederick Rosser, convicted of driving a hansom cab in Karangahaperoad after dark on January 31, without lights, was fined 10/ and costs 7/. For failing to have a proper taßle of fares exhibited inside his cab, he was fined 5/ and costs 7/. By-Law Infringements.—Charles Glasson, for failing 'to put a light over a hole he had excavated in Karangahaperoad, was fined 10/ and costs 12/. Frank Goller, the driver of an express cart, for waiting on the Queen-street wharf on the arrival of the Talune, February Ist last, thereby infringing a bylaw of the Auckland Harbour Board, was fined 10/ and 7/ costs. Vagrancy. —Norah Williams pleaded not guilty to a charge of being an incorrigible rogue, with insufficient lawful means of support. Evidence was given by the adjutant of the Salvation Army Home to the effect that accused often went to the Home, but seldom stayed long enough to become in any way rehabilitated. His Worship remarked that her visits to the Salvation Army Home seemed to be simply to escape from the police. Her record was a terrible one so far as regards drunkenness and vagrancy, two terms of 12 months each having already tfeen served by her. He would inflict another term of 12 months' imprisonment. By-law Cases.—Herbert Audain, for allowing a horse to stand on the footpath of Elizabeth-street, was fined 10/ and 7/ costs. Samuel Fergus, for riding a horse on the Victoria- Wharf, Devonport, was fined 5/ and costs (£1 8/). For allowing a horse to wander in Jervois-road, William Conway -was penalised 10/ and costs (9/), while for riding a horse across the footpath in Ham-ilton-road Walter Smith was similarly fined, with coats 7/.