MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11253, 19 April 1902, Page 4

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Messrs W. Ballinger and W. Barnetfc; J.P.s, presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS. For drunkenness a first offender was fined the -usual penalty, and Patrick Ryan 10s nod costs. * ■*" BY-LAW OASES. For riding bicycle , * on the footpath Ada Julius, Maggie Smith, Claude Mason, and Wm. Hamilton were each lined 10s and costs. John Barrett was fined 5s and coste for alLowing two horses to wander at large. "SQUARED IT UP." John Gravr, charged with wilfully damaging a cab window, valued at 255, explained that he had "squared it up." Understanding that reparation had been made, tne Bench fined the accused 5s and coats. ALLEGED THEFTS. On a charge of stealing a lady's gold watch at Lyttelton John David JRnndall Mr Donnelly) was remanded for a week. Frank Robertson was remanded to Welingtonon a charge-of stealing a£s camera belonging to T. P. Lyons. John Nelson and John Smith were each fined ss, and costs, for petty thefts of onions from Mr E. Smiths paddock at White's bridge. ( • Three small boys, two of whom pleaded "Guilty," were charged with entering the vinery of John Ebert, in Lower High street,and stealing grapes and doing damage to the extent of IDs. The Bench cautioned the lads, and dismissed the case. , ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF A , DOG. An eleven-year-old youth was charged with cruelly ill-treating a dog at Bromley. . He was stated , to have tied the.canine by a short rope to the back of a moving cart, with the result,that, as one of the witnesses explained it ? "the dog was ploughing the , ' hair, it was -ung clean in the hair." Only , at interval of several yards, according to evidence for the prosecution, did its aiind legs touch, the ground. Mr Malley appeared for the accused, anH stated that the boy had been taking the to its owner, and was of opinion that he had given it plenty of rope. When he noticed that it was panting he took it into the cart. Its owner deposed that the dog had 1 not suffered from the treatment accorded to it. The Justices dismissed, the case. CASE DISMISSED. Frederick Williams (Mr Donnelly) -was charged with cruelly beating a horse on March/29th. The Bench decided that the thrashing given to the animal, which had refused to work, "vrae not a serious one, ■ and dismissed the case. A RESERVED DECISION. Mr H; W. Bishop's reserved judgment was read in the case of Fowler Ferguson -Ogilvie v the Sliaw, Savill, and Albion Company, for a ci.aim of £100. The amount represented damages oau&ed to defendant through his falling from a ladder on board the Delphic. The fall had caused him $.0 be incapacitated for fifteen weeks, and it was alleged that the mishap was due to negligence in the placing of tlie ladder. , Mr Johnston appeared for the! plaintiff, and Mr Harper the defendant. Judgment • was given for the plaintiff for £45 andcosts.