LOWER HUTT COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 8

LOWER HUTT COURT.

At the Lower fl'utt Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., and Messrs. Cudby and Wilkin, J.P.'s, a school--boy named Lance Hagen was' charged with inlfully_sotting fire to gorse adjacent to the Kiver Conrd s protective works. .■ liagon pleaded guilty, and after being admonished by the Magistrate, v.-as discharged. The Borough inspector (Mr. Mills) prosecuted m several by-law cases. One in which Robert Lazarus was charged with f'aiious cycling was defended. It was contended that tfie rato of speed at which the defendant was travelling was exaggerated. '.The Bench upheld' the contention, and dismissed the case against! Lazarus. A similar charge against A. Lees was withdrawn. For various by-law offences—cycling without lights, and allowing horses to wander, etc.—the-follow-' ing persons were each fined' 55., and costs 75., and other small amountsJ. V. Dylco, Robert ' Lazarus, A. ; Lees, J. Heggie, W Greenough. 6. Howard, B. A. Hansen, A Rumgay, A. Ross, J. B. Wood, J. T. Horno, H- 1- Barley, G. Ridge,' G. Robertson, T. Ridge, H. ICiugan, T. Young, F. Gadsby, A. I 1 ltzmorris.' Thomas Maxwell Jl'lntosh, who has been twice-iinprisonod for'tho samo offence, was charged with failing to contribute towards the maintenance of his wife, tho arrears now being £44 Bs. The case was' adjourned until April 4. ■ , Two ketone cases were taken. Hugh M'D. Adams, for drunkenness, was fined os., with tho alternative of twelve hours' imprisonment.' ■ i _ J. House, who was arrested on Tuesday by Constablo.Murphy on a.warrant issued twolvo months ago,-, charging him with using obscene language, was remanded until Fridav, on bail. ' , Judgment was given for plaintiffs . in tho following civil casesC.-M. Hector r. Joseph Benge i£3 35., costs 10s. 6d.; Hutt Borough Council v. James J. Stevenson, £2 12s. Id. costs, 125.;. Hutt Borough Council v. James Jackson Stevenson, £2 18s. 2d., costs 12s. In the judgment, summons case B. Burnley v. To To Puni, £4, no order was made. Severai civil cases were adjourned.