THE COURTS.

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THE COURTS.

i —. MAGISTERIAL. * SATUIJIJAY. (Before Mi' Ji. ,D. Mosley, S.M.) FIXED FOK FIGHTING. Two men, John McDougal Arneil, aged 31 and William Henry Taylor, aged 31, pleaded guilty to charges of fighting. Arneil pleaded not yuilty to a breach of his prohibition order. Each of the men was fined £2 and costs for fighting, and Arneil was convicted and discharged upon the second charge against Li m. SIX MONTHS GAOL. Samuel l'obert Prisk, a tinsmith, aged 57, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of being a, rogue and a vagabond. Senior-Sergeant J. Fox said that accused had come to the watchhouse and askecj to be locked up He was then covered with grass seed and reeking of methylated spirits WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. 'Josephine Everett, aged 51, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and being an incorrigible rogue. She was sentenced to six months' goal with hard labour on the latter count and fined 10s and costs, in default 21 hours' imprisonment upon the former. The Maeistiate said that the accused had a long "list." A GKNEKAL BRAWL George Charles Waterman, alias Coleman, ii'-'od 06, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and of behaving in a threatenin" manner in Fitzgerald avenue on Febru- ' ary 12th. To a charge of theft of £l, the property of William Malison, on February ICth, lie pleaded not guilty. On the cliaige of drunkenness he wa3 fined 10s, in default 21 hours' imprisonment, and for behaving in a disorderly manner was fined £5 and costs, in default one month's imprisonment. For theft he was ordered to rei.ay the money or go to gaol for seven days Benjamin John O'Connell pleiided not * r uilty to a charge of drunkenness and also to a charge of using insulting language. He was convicted and fined 10s, in default 21 hours' imprisonment on the first count and £3. in default one month's imprisonment on the second. Senior-Sergeant J. Fox said that the men appeared as the result of a complaint received late on Friday night. As a result two sergeanta and two constables -visited a

house in Fitzgerald avenue. One of the sergeants described the occurrence as a general brawl which had disturbed the whole nc.ghbourhod. Waterman had brandished an open razor and threatened to cut the throats of two other men, the SeniorSergeant added. A third man, »i statutory first offender I for drunkennt-srj, was fined 10s, in default 21 hours' imprisonment. YOUNG WOMAN AKKESTKD. Arrested in a shtfp on Friday," Ilia Mary \tilson, aged 20, appeared charged with stealing a fur coat valued at £22 Is, the property of J. Ballantyne and Co., Ltd. Chief-Detective J. Carroll aßked for a remand to February 18th. The remand was granted. RANGIORA. (Before Mr C. I. Jennings, J.P.j KEMANDED.Thaddcus Edward Doody was charged with the theft at Rangiora cf a suitcase and contents, valued at £2O, and a Salvation .Army Band uniform, valued at ££, the property of Messrs Stanton Bros., Ltd.. Dunedin. 'Accused was remanded until Wednesday, bail being allowed in the sum of £SO and one eurety. of JBSV.