MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2787, 3 June 1916, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SOLICITORS Tilt;ST ACCOUNT,

r Sfr-'D. G. A. .Cooper, S.M., presided at ; yesterday's . sitting .of the Alasistrate's Court. The Crown Law* Office, for whom ilr. V. A: Meredith appeared, proceeded against Kobert Cook, a solicitor, represented by ill'. F. E. Petherick, for failing to have his trust- account audited for tlie year ended March 31, 1915. For the ■ defendant' Mr. Petherick urged that the onus was on the Crown Law Office to prove that Mr. Cook had a trust account. Mr. Meredith pointed out that the law mads it ..obligatory lor every solicitor to have his trust account audited or to send lu a certificate that he had no tr.ust account. His Worship entered a conviction, and imposed a fine of i!; 2, with 7s. costs. For. allowing a dog to attack a-milk-man named Percy Clark, Mrs. Emily Thomas (for-whom Mr. J. J. M'Gratli uppeared) was ordered'to pay 7s. costs, iiud witness' expenses, ' (is.' As Mr. M'Gratli stated the dog had been destroy, ed, a second charge of being the owner ot u dangerous dog was withdrawn. ■ William Henry Fozlia was fined os. and 7s. costs, or in default 2i hours'-imprison, rnent, for trading on Sunday. . As there was' no appearance of John Uedmond O'Donoghue, a prohibited person, to answer a charge of' being on licensed premises, an order was niado for I his arrest;.

Ed. Yanko was charged with leaving a motor-car unattended in Tonks Grove, itnd also with having his registered number obscured was fined os. and' costs 75., or 2-1 houra' imprisonment, on each case. ' For boarding a tramcar while in motion, William Jonah Harris, a respect-able-looking man, was fined os. and 7s. costs. .- , , - ■'•..•'"■

Because the drainage on.her'property was defective, ,Mrs. E. Swindale was lined .£1 and 7s. costs. For allowing cows to wander on', the. Queen's Drive and Hungerford Bead, Charles Graham, was fined Ss., 4s.' wit. uess' expenses, and 'Js. Court costs.

"When he was fined before, Your Worship, for not attending drill, lie became more regular, but has since lapsed into uon-atteudaucu again." Such was tho officer's description of tho conduct ot Charles Marsh, and His Worship, having cautioned tho youth, lined him 10s., and 7s. costs, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

l''or insobriety, William Joseph O'Beilly was fiaed 10s., ur 48 hours' imprisonment; William Bray, 10s., or 48 hours; James ■Burns, 20s. or three days; Clarence Healy, it" soldier, was ordered to bo handed over to the military authorities; Sanzi JosSpn und Joseph Ryan were each fined 10s., .in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Four Orsfc offenders wero convicted and discharged. William Kemp, for whom Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared, pleaded guilty to deserting the steamer Turakina. Mr. P. W. Jackson pleaded for lenicncy, and said the accusal was willing to pay tlio costs he had incurred. The Court agreed, and having convicted Kemp, ordered him to pay J22 17s. expenses incurred, and to como up for sentence when called upon. An old ago pensioner, named Martin Coogan, who had been remanded to fee what could be done for him, was again before the Court on the charge of being a roguo and a vagabond. Inspector Hendrey intimated that tJio Benevolent Trus. teos would take him back, and His Worship convicted and discharged accused on condition that he re-entered the Oliiro Homo at once. George Albert Ritson, who was represents b.v Mr. O'Leary, was charged with

assaulting a youth named Edward Stan-, den. From the statement of the police it appeared that Staudoii, who. is a Territorial, was in uniform, and met Ritson in a public bar. Ho asked Hitson why ha was uoc in uniform and at the front, which llitson regarded as an insult. Ha struck Stttniien and knocked him down. The defendant stated that Standen hit him first, and being in uniform' he thougnt him a lull-grown mail. His Worship dismissed the case. Sunday trailing and obstructing tho police was .tlie charge preierred. against William Collins, who with his wife, Jean Ooliius, keeps a shop at the corner of Taranaki Street ana Courtenay Place. The obstruction of the police consisted in Collins asking two women not to give their uamea to Constable Black.- Mr. O'Lcary appeared for accused. After hearing the evidence of the police, His Worship fined the defendant and his wifo os. and 7s. costs each for Sunday trading, and convicted William Collins of obstructing tho police, imposing a fine of 10s. and Vs.- costs, Denis Gerondis, for allowing offensive matter to accumulate in his 1 backyard, was convicted and discharged. Bert. Potman, a motor driver, for whom Mr. O'Leary appeared, pleaded not guilty to -driving "his car negligently on the Queen's X)rive, causing a collision with a milk cart on May 15. Mr. O'Shea prosecuted ou behalf of the City Council. • Walter Kestieaux, with whose milk-cart Petman collided, said a shaft of his cart was broken.. There was much conflicting evidence as to whether the parties were on tho right side of the roati,- and as to showing .of lights. His Worship found that Petman was on the wrong side of the road, and fined him J!2, with costs 135., solicitor's fee ,£1 Is., and witnesses' expenses, £2 Bs. Daniel 1 Chapman, for driving his ear at a dangerous • pace ■ round tho corner from Manners Street/into Willis Street, was convicted and fined -10s.