MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 December 1910, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Dr. A. Ji'Avtliur, S.JI.) | t?ATUEDAY'S LIST. | Tltors was only a brief sittius of the ■£ llarjistmto's Court at !l a.m. en Saisir- s day, the' wlio'.e of ti-.o enses Leing ilis- w pose;! of in a i'aiv miuutcj. David Bros- § tnu3 pk>:n!cd Kuilly lo n char;;?, cf llicft > of a k'.L' anil .C;i IDs. in inonc.y, total s; valtio X\, th.o ]i:-(jprr;-y of Mavilia Ilomiby. 'i'lioio v.sro twcnly- J live previous convictions ai:,'i:!.-t aeciifcd. j ami lie w:is sonlonratl {;> three moiillis' f iintiHsaninoiit. v Tlie innr.ey and h::z. $ wliicli liacl be?n rocovprod, were ordered $ to lie iciiorcd to the owner. j Charl.'s kelson, v.'lto Intel been discover- j cd driii'.k while in chavso of n liovso and 5 cart in Victoria Straat. was convicted 5 and ordered to pay G~. t-iabliiiß fee. ; .Tamos ?.r.\(ichaol jileaded piillly to n ; cltart;o of drunkenness, and to a further ; cliarge of procitriit't liquov (hiring the s cuirtncy of 11 prohibition order. For the ; brcr.clt of the order he was fined !os., in J default fourteen days' imprisonment, and J 0:1 t'lio charge of drunkenness ho was con- 5 vietod and dischaiKed. Mary Wilson, i charged with drunk-enuess and With • breach of a prohibition order, was.con- : victcd, and ordered to come up for sen- s ter.ee when called on. James M'Eacliern, : for drunkenness, was cojivictcd and tlis- j charged,' and. five first offenders were simi- i larly dealt with. i CASES HEAH-D TESTEEDAT. j (Before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.) Monday's cases at tho Jlagistrate's - Court wcro quickly disposed of. "With the exception of two vagrants, tho of- j fendc-rs wore all charged with insobriety, j Stephen Golding, alias Grant, ami James i Doylo, wlto were jointly charged with [ being idle and disorderly persons, | pleaded not guilty. Detective Cassclls ! stated (hat they liad arrived from | Christchurch about a v.vek 'ago, and had j done no work since. On Saturday last \ fhey had been begging alms in Lasubton [ Quay. When arrested one of tho men | had a very small sum cf money, and t tho other had nothing. Both had pre- j viocsly been convicted on .vagrancy 1 charges, and tho magistrate , sentenced each to three months' imprisonment. Violet I'aton, a young woman, ■ with drunkenness, had a long list of | previous convictions against her. J!r. i Arnold, Visiting Justice, stated that he had been in communication with the ' woman's, mother, who had sent sufficient money to pay her daughter's fare homo to tho Auckland district. Accused was convicted and ordered to 'conic up for sentence when called on, on , condition that siio left for homo by tho mid-day train. * ■, Thomas Eastman, for drunkenness, was '. fined JOs., in default seven days' imprisonment. Jane Walsh, who 'did not appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, was lined 10s., with'tho alternative of 2i hours' imprisonment. Two ftrstolfending inebriates wcro remanded for seven days for. curative treatment. Three other first offenders wcro convicted and discharged, and another, who did not appear, was ordered to forfeit his bail of 10s., or undergo J8 hours' imprisonment.