MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. AY. G. Kiddell, S.M.) AN OPIUM-SMOKER. Loo Yong, a Chinese, residing in llaining Street, was charged with (I) smoking opium, and (2) having opium in hid ]>;>»- M-ssion in form suitable for smoking. Sergeant liutlodge stated that at 10.35 p.m. on ]''ridfiy, May JB, ho and Constable M'Kelvie sucetded in Rainiiiß adini^'ion. to the house. No. ■](! Haining Street. They found the accused on the floor and in (lie act of smoking opium. The opium-smoking pirapliernalia (produced in Court) were found alongside of him. Acciifpd pleaded guilty Io the first charge, but not guilty' to Iho second. He was convicted on caeh rhnrgo, and penalties amounting to ,£l3 with costs Its. and interpreter's fec» .CI li. wero impo=cd. THEFT OF FOWLS. ' Samuel Michael was charged with stealing two fowls, valued at Gs., tho proparty of P. O'Callaghau, and was remr.nded until Hay 3. OTHER CASES. ; Four first-offending inebriates were convicted and discharged. AVilliam Brady was fined 405., with (he option of seven days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and made, the subject of a prohibition order. I!. 11. Balding was also fined 40s. for a breach of a prohibition order; in default secpn days' imprisonment. Hβ was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. JUVENILE COURT. In the. Juvenile Court a lad, 15J years of age, was ordered to come up for' se>;tsneo when called upon, for tho, theft oi twenty tram-tickets, the property of the Wellington City Corporation. The lad's father undertook to pay tho value of tho tickets., MOUNT COOK POLICE COURT. At the Mount Cook Polico Court on Saturday, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J'.1 , ., Ihonias Moore, alias Murphy, pleaded guilty to a charge, of having been drunk, and also of fighting and disorderly conduct in Abel Smith Street. There wero ten similar previous convictions recorded against him. He was fined £3, in the alternative of fourteen davs' imprisonment. May Jl'Gownn pleaded guilty to insobriety in Tory Street, mid was fined 55., in.default twenty-four hours' detention. Edward Jackson pleaded guilty to drunkenness, fnis being his third recent conviction. A fine of i!os., or forty-eight hours' imprisonment, was imposed. Thrc3 first offenders for drunkenness were convicted and discharged.