MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

' POLICE GASES, (Boforo Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) ' INDECENT LANGUAGE. . . Jesse Underwood was charged . (1) with insobriety,-and..(2)with having used indecent language m Lanibtori Quay. Accused pleaded guilty,.'to'-, tho first charge;--, and not" guilty to 'the \-second I .'A. conviction and fine of .20s;, 'in -default seven-days' imprisonment, was imposed '"on the first. charge, and ou • the second-,'acctised'Was sentenced to twenty-one days'. 'imptebrimerit.' A young man named John Good was convicted and fined £3 and cbsts 135., in default twenty:briQ-'days' .imprisonment, for'having used indecent language. • INSUFFICIENT MEANS.. Thomas',Darling appeared on remand on a charge of being an_idlo and disorderly per- ' son within'the meaning of the.'Police Ounces Act,"1884,-.'jri that he had insufficient lawful means',of'support. Accused pleaded guilty. Subrliispectpr Phair stated that Darling, who- had not been out from Scotland very 'longj-,camo,.fo tho police station on September; lo : , and gave himself up, saying he had no .means , and no home. - Accused said-he was' I ,willing'. ,; to work, but could get nothing 'to do. '■ • . < . His Worship entered a conviction and discharge, urging accused to try and get . something to do. ' ' ' 'MISCELLANEOUS.', \ John Summers, remanded from last week on a charge, pf having been found in. a state of helpless drunkenness in.'Jorvois Quay",'was convicted and ■ ordered to pay the ' amount of expenses';incurred, 17s. ;6d.', -in-default forty-eight.;liours' imprisonment. r One first offender was fined 10s.,- two' others were fined' 65.,-and,.another wasconvicted !',and discharged.; -'J'i. . - '' v -.'' • Jonri'ißutler appeared on remand on a charge of having," on Scpt«mbor : T7, at Wellington, " unlawfully .assaulte'd',.Anton Larsen.': On the application ofi'the police, a further-remand until'.September.3o was granted. Mr. P. Jackson appeared for defendant.'.- 'Bail was 'allowed in : the -sum of two sureties' of .£2o*each. '■ ! ■ BY-LAW CASES. Frederick Dumble 'was convicted and fined 20s.j_and- costs 7s.'for-leaving a vehicle standing'in; the street'without'pfpper^ontrbl.^ A' cohvietion aftd fine of 20s.- and costs 7s.', ,n default;,seven days';"imprisonment, 'was ' ntered-.against.,^\ r m. .'Miles,charged with having" a vehicle, standing -in the street for > loligen titn'e than necessary for loading or nloading.-,-. ■ • Reginald : Welsby iy!as convicted :and fined s. ; arid/costs :75., in'.'default seven days' im- . ris6rimbrit, ' for' : leaving a vehicle; without hbrses "attached thereto,, standing in a'public street:';;'^?'•' . ,'. A of allowing a waste pipe to become; defective so: as to cause an offensive Bmell. was preferred against" Jehn Miller, who was'cphvicted, and. fined 10s. arid costs 7s. For'allowing horses and cattle to wander, fines:were imposed l as follow:—Wm. J. Jack-sonj.'-lOs. and - costs--7s. -on 'each of two charges and Burke, 10s. and costs 75.; ;Gebtee';Bell, ss. and costs 75.; and convictedCand':ordered to pay costs 7s. on each of three other charges; George Nash; ss. and costs!u7s r r. John F.' Mills; os. and costs 7s. John'Borthwick. arid Chas, Smith were each ecnyibt€&'arid;ordered to pay costs 7s. Spencer ■'arid Sapsfcrd. pork butchers, charged with failing to .close their shop, at 8_ p.ni//;aß;.jreqmrcd. by, statute, were.' convicted. and /ordered, to pay ccsts 95.-' At;-Mbunt Cbbic Pblice Cburt yesterday, before Mr.':Ti ; S: Lambbrt/J.P., Thbmas Troy, an bid; offender, ■ pleaded'guilty, to 'drunkenri ness, v and was fined 10s./ with - the alternative;, of i forty-eight;; hours' ..'imprisonment. James Washington,' with a long.: record, pleaded guilty r to* insobriety, and was convicted and discharged on condition that he left the, city-yesterday to'work he had got in the'country. • Eobert M'Carthy pleaded guilty to inebriety, and was mulcted in tho Bum.of.ss.j:,with-the usual alternatire.'--