MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15138, 30 November 1914, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL.

(Before Mr H. W. Biehop, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. One first offender, an old man, was Snod 5s for drunkenness, iv default i— hours' imprisonment. BREACH OF THE PEACE. John Lachoro pleaded "guilty under provocation" to a brcneh of tho peace in the street. He had been watching a fijiht, and ono of the combatants ran away. x\t tho invitation of the other lie .stepped into tiio breach and received a blow on tho eye. The Magistrate said ho would deal leniently with him, and made the tine os, in default 2-1 hours' imprisonment. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. . Philip Hereford was ordered to pay Georgo Henry £2 17 ; s forthwith, in dofault 4S hours' imprisonment. Francis J. S. Slirimpton w_-s ordered to pay J. M-Claichie and Co.. Ltd., LI 2_ 7d forthwith in default--24 hours' imprisonment. Jame_ Tullo.k was ordered to pay R. Macrcady £9 Ss forthwith in de-fx-iilt 9 days' imprisonment. G. T. BumoU-erg was ordered to nay £3 os to tho Chrir.t.hu-ch Gas Co., in default three d.-i-s' iinnri'-on'rno-Ht No order was made in the caso Rink T;—is, Ltd. v. John Young, claim £107 _■_ fc'd. A WHALING CASE. (S.E. "AT TO "THE PRESS *"* KAIKOURA., November 23. I Judgment was given last night for ! defendants in the whale case. Tlie decision w.s h:i£cil on the oviilonco of the Queen Charlotte Sound whalers that tho custom in tho .Sounds and Coik Strait waters was that fastening to .. whale by means of a harpoon or killing it out-right constituted ownership. INDIGENT ASSAULT. (PHESS ASSOCIATION* TELEG'tAM.) PALMEUSTON N.. November 2S. Alfred Leonard Cobbe, aged sixteen, found gui.ty at. thc Supreme Court ot" indecent a—ault on a child aged eight, was sentenced to live years" detention ia a reformatory.