MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before' Dr. A. Jl'Arthur, S.M.) ! Isaac Myers,, for whom Mr. H. F. O'Loarv appeared, pleaded guilty to a ihargo'or having assaultetV James Bov?ridge on Tlnirsday." The.affair was tlio result of some .'"words which had beenexchanged in tho bar of an hotel, coun? :sel stating that his client was under, ■|he impression that Beveridgo liad 111•sulted hiDi. A-fiuo of 20s. \yas imposed, ?;with witncsses', expenses 18s., tho default bemg seven (Jays' -imprisonment. . it). Shaw, charged with soliciting business as a Carrier 011 Lambton Railway Station, was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs, lis., aud witnesses expenses 10s., in default seven- days .imprisonment. ... ' . . .' Ernest Brock, a .bluejacket, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and to a furthor. charge of indecency. He was handed' over t-o tho Naval authorities for punishment. . - ' . • William Hammington pleaded not' guilty to a-.charge; of indecency, in Museum Street, but after the', evidence, -tho'.Magistrate convicted ac : . : .(;usetl, arid imposed a.sentence of'throo mouths' imprisonment.' ■~-•. '■ ' '• An adjournment till January 13 was granted 111 the case against Alfred Nelson, charged with obtaining £2 7s. 3d., moneys if the Wellington Harbour Board, by means of false pretences. : For leayiuf a vehicle unattended for more' than-five minutes, Androw Keid was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs, 75., in default forty-eight hours imprisonment. David' Elliott, for allowing a horse to wander, was'finerl 55., with costs is., 111 default two days' imprisonment. Alexander Hill pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping his shop in Manners ', Street open for Sunday trading,, and .was fined 205., 'with costs 75., in default sqven days' imprisonment. For ri breach of 'a prohibition order, Michael Connolly was fined 405., and costs 75., in default fourteen days' imprisonment, Jesper Arnold Moran„ for a, similar offence, was fined 205., with tho alternative of seven days' imprisonment. • George William Jackson, against whom there wero 65 previous convictions, pleaded, guilty to a chargo of drunkenness, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. John M'Kio, for drunkenness,' was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, and Charles Enticott, for a similar offence, was fined 405., in default fourteen days' imprisonment. Charles Joseph ' Little, who had been found in a state of helpless drunkenness, was remanded for a week for medical '.treatment... A first-offend-ing inebriate, who did not appear, was ordered to forfeit his bail of 10s., or undergo forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Another first offender was fined ss.,'with the alternative of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and threo other first offenders were convicted and discharged.