POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 23 March 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

iHcfore Mr. J. W. Poynton. P.M.' A TEN MINUTES' CHASE. Tiie caretaker of the Magistrate's Court was standing in Queen 'Street last night, waiting tor a tram, when William Olliver (20) came along, mumbled something, swore volubly and ptriu-k the inoffensive Oovprnmeni -rrvant in the fact, breaking hi* pipe. This done, Olliver took to his heels and ran, with the caretaker in hot pursuit. The chase lasted ten minutes nnd Ollivrr tiicn found himself in custody. "1 had a few whi-kies anil they went to my head, sir,' , was Ollivor's excuse this morning. "You shouldn't take uhi-kw You've been previously committed for assault. Fourteen days!" said t!ie magistrate DESTROY THE DEAR DOGGIE. An old gentleman was talking to a friend on a street corner the other afternoon when a frisky fox '.errier fussed up and bit his log. This didn't meet the old gentleman's idea of humour at all, and he promptly laid an information against the owner, Tjouis Adams, a wharf labourer. "'You'll have to get rid of it, you know; your dog can't race round biting people. f;o to the chemist and he will give you a dose for the dog. Fined £2 ami ordered to pay expenses. 23/Y' said the magistrate. HE DIDN'T DRINK. "When a constable walked into a hotel bar the other morniu<; at 7 o'clock lie found "Walter Unrkness leaning on the counter with a half-empty bottle in hi* hand. Harkness said he "didn't drink." and had walked in ''.just for a waik." This was a bit too tall for the Magistrate, who fined him 40/ for being there before legal hours.

MI SCELLANEOTJS. Because he did not register under the Aliens Aot within the stipulated time, Wong Xaiti was fined 10/ and ordered to pay All Chop 10/, interpreter's fee.

Reginald Lewis Short and John Scott wore pacli mulcted in tlie sum of 10/, with costs 0/. for having been in possession of unreg'i-terod firearms:.

iJeorpe Forrest Hale 130) was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended so lonjj us ho paiJ i/d nor work ofT arrears amounting to £00, and maintained current payments in respect of >'> maintenance order.

•Tames Brown, a statutory second otTondinsr inebriate, was lined 40/. in default three days.

.Tolin Sissotis Carrett, ■' pawnbroker, was charged with failini to make an entry in proper form ill the book kept for entering details of nledces. After honrinc the evidence his Worship dismissed Hie I'liariTP, instructing defendant to he more careful.

Robert Rei<! "n* dischar-ed on a obargp nf liavine been found in possession of a revolver. His Worship said he hoped defendant would not give any trouble in future.