INSOBRIETY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 19

INSOBRIETY.

: Three offenders made,their first appearanco oft charges /of .drunkenness, and ; \vero convicted and 1 discharged.' ; - ' : , ■ ' . Mary: Doyle,, who. did= not appear,: was con* victcd of having'been,'found drunk in Buller Street;on December 22, and was fined 55., with the. option- of '21 hours',, imprisonment.-.', ' -Thero was no appearance of . Albert Jones in answer, to a-'chargo of having been, found drunk in.Molesworth Street on December' 22. ITo was convicted 'and fined '10s., in default 48 h"lll'S. .: :' '

.' Michael Byrno was '.'convicted.. and" fined - 10s., nr .in .default: 4S hours' imnrisonfaent, for having been drunk in Taran'afi Place on Dceuniber 22. • . . .lTairy Dunn, who had been once previously convicted:for -drunkenness, was to .navc; appeared to .'answer.:.to .a 'second- offence. SubInspector . Norwood" explained that Dunn had fiilleh into, the harbour the previous evening, and had subsequently to bo taken to tho hospital, whew.ho...was .now recovering from tho e/l'eets nf his iiumr-t'sion. <, ; A remand till. Docci'.ilwr.: 30 ' was .therefore - asked : for and IV'-anted." .■: :.-'

( IDLE AND DISORDERLY PERSONS. -T.ii.ree inontlis'. imprisonment was the . senthiice imposed-upon John Burkn, wlio, with one devious, conviction .lis an; idle' and. disorderly -'fi:-i-.s:'in, mid two' : (irevious convictions. tor Jlninlamniis;?, pleaded, guilty : to . a ; chargo , of. Jjains ail idle- aiiil disorderly person; and: [of :-Xdving -Hcßged'.'from-: passers-'by on . 'Lambton. cjuay 'on :Dcceml.ier 22. ' ' ' . : ; , ; ; .Tano Scliarre, . elmri'cil-with importuning 1 and with beiai; au iille and disorderly person without sufficient lawful means of support, was convicted .and ordcrcd to come up for:, scntenco when called iipon, on condition that she rciuainh.t iii the. Sijlyiitioii Army Iloino for three aioutlis.V' : :

OTTMt C VSDS A-iyoiiiiK woman iinmc(l;'Mnry 'An(leraon : applied to have licr. arrears .of maintenance remitted. riHis Worship-granted a remission of arrears oxbept . aii amount ot 255. ... Jftmw Nicnolls, was reDiandod: till. December 30, for; observation.• Sub-Ihspector Norwbod Slated that Nicholls was: found on ■ the Petone wharf with'a rope.and a heavy stone in his possession,'and .had- threatened' to drown.' himself.'.