MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2582, 2 October 1915, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. For having - ridden a motor bicycle which did not bear a registration number, J. W. M. Harrison was fined 65., with 7s. costs. , Gideon Lamb was charged with having impeded the passage of a tramcar, through having driven a motor-car along in front of it in Cuba Street. Lamb, who was. defended by Mr. P. H. Putnam, denied any intention to impede the tramcar, and'the Magistrate gave him the benefit of the doubt, and found in his favour. ' Frederick Rankin was fined 5b., with oosts 75., for failure to stop a motor'uicycle when ordered by a police constable to. do so. / Walter Lancey Cole was fined 55., with 7s. costs, for having obstructed a footway. ... For having permitted, two horses to wander on The Parade at Island Bay, Jolm.Odliri and Co. were ordered to pay costs, 7s. Joseph Donnelly • proceeded against Geo. Keenan on .a charge of the use of obscene ■ language. The. defendant was fined £3. For failure to attend military drill, Robert, Henry Houghton was fined 10s., with costs 75.,'. and was allowed three weeks in which to "pay the amount; _ Ann Jane Xeggett was oharged with, having sold milk without being licensed to do so. She stated that she had only sold a little spare milk which she had bought for her household use, and was not 'aware at' the time that,-she was breaking the .law. . Tho 'Court decided, not to inflict a fine, but'warned defendant against repetition of the oifeiice. Frederick Miller and Margaret; Carlyle were each fined £1 for insobriety. Young How, a Chinese, was fined £3 and costs, on a-charge of having cruelly ill-treated a horse'. . ■ ■ ' On charges of the theft of a. watch (£2 10s.), .a chain (£3), and £3 in money,' belonging to Herbert' Charles Foster, Geo. Albert M'Nicholl was remanded till October 8. Henry Wadloy was fined £1, with expenses 165., for having assaulted- Edwaid Scott, the Corporation's collector, of dog license foes.