THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18369, 30 April 1925, Page 3

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. WEDNESDAY. • (Before Mr W. Meldrum, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS.

Two male first offenders were each convicted and fined ss, in default 24 hours in gaol. For the third time within six months Josiah White, a middle-aged man, pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and ho was convicted and-fined £l, in default three days in Paparua Prison. REMANDED. On a charge of raving failed to provide his wife, leobella Ann Watson, with ade■quate- maintenance, Robert -Howard Watson, a young mail, was remanded to appear at Ta Kuiti on Wednesday. DISTURBANCE AT THEATRE.

, "He attacked a number of -women in the queue outeide the theatre last night and used abusive language," said an attendant at the Theatre Royal when giving, evidence against Donald Mathieson, an elderly man (Mr J. B. BatcheJor),, who admitted charges of drunkenness in Cathedral square amd obscene language in Gloucester street on Leniency was asked for by Mr Batchelor. He said that Mathieson could Temcmber nothing of the matter. He had come out from gaol on the day he was arrested, and he now wanted to go to a Bister's place in Oamaru. > His Worship convicted and fined Mathieson £l, in default three days in gaol on the drunkenness icharge, and on the other charge he was convicted and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.

TWO CHARGES. Drunkenness and procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order were admitted bv William Henry Flower Newell, who said that he was a returned Victorian soldier. On the charge 1 of drunkenness he was convicted and fined 10s* in default 24 hours in gaol, and on the second he was convicted and fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. DRUNKEN DRIVER.

For having been found drunk, while in charge of a horse and cart in Addington, Wilham Henry Conway, who did not appsar, was convicted and fined 20s. On a further charge of having broken the terms of a prohibition order, he was convicted and W *• FOUND AT NIGHT.

A plea of guilty was given bv John McDonald, of middle age, who was charged with having been found by night in the yard of the Christchurch Gas Company-He was-convicted and fined 20s, in default three days in gaol. BROKEN ORDERS.

"She's the mother of * family of ten children, who are all in the State * charge said Senior-Sergeant F. Lewin, Applin, a'middle-aged woman, pleaded guilty to a charge of having P* o *™* hquor „if r ing the currency of a P'ohibit.on order. Applin was convicted and fined 20s, in ae fault three days in gaol. . , George Henry Keats was convicted *nd fined 63 for a similar offence. Percy Mitchell was convicted and nnea 5s and costs for having been found on the premises of the Shades Hotel when he w£ prohibited. On a further 'charge oj having procured liquor from the Shades Hotel 7 he was convicted and ordered to pay costs. _ , UNREGISTERED SHOTGUN. For having been found in l*"""™ ? an unregistered shotgun, J °^J^wi who pleaded guilty, wa. convicted and nnea 10s and costs. „,„-r.n ON LICENSED PREMISES. For having been .found on the licensed premises oflne Excelsior Hotel after hours Andrew Gibb and William Gough were each Evicted 8 -and Howard Poison and W„g each convicted and fined se wr | been found on the licensed premises ot w Club Hotel after hours. LICENSEE CHARGED. hearin? ftA-Se. *■ Worshi P dismi£Sed at the Excels**: Hotel after hours.

WOMAN ASSAULTED. Chaired with having aasaulted hi* wife, been eiven, the Magistrate beHClack guilty and fined him 90. and eg.. It was stated that the parties had been and that Clack Ldtrespaeeed on his wife's property m Addington.

CROSSING CASES. On a charge of having crossed over the Colombo street railway crossing when the line was not Oar, J. Kingsland was convicted and fined 20s and costs. Godwin Percival Genn for failing to keep a vigilant look-out at Sawyer's Armsroad railway crossing was convicted and ordered to pay costs. OPEN ON HOLIDAY. Sarah Bovce, for failing to ciose ft ehop on February 21st (a half-holiday), was convicted and fined £1 and costs.

SHOOTING OUT OF SEASON. A plea of guilty was .given by Fred Garland, a young man, who was charged with having killed four grey dncka on April 10th at the Selwyn river in the close season. The case was described as a serious one from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society's point ojE view. Garland was convicted and fined £i and costs. IN OTHER PLACES.

ALLEGED "CONFIDENCE TRICK" (PRESS /SSOCIA.TIOH TELEGEAM.) PALMERSTON NORTH. April 29. A young man, named Dinholm Gillespie, was charged in the Police Court with, stealing £73 from Stanley Gibson, and was remanded until Friday. It is alleged that accused is on* of a party which is said to have worked a confidence trick on the Esplanade in February, and later disappeared to Australia. Accused was sent back to the Dominion from the Commonwealth, and was arrested on the arrival of the Ulimaroa at Wellington.