MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS Mr. L. 0. ]{ejd, S.-M., presided at tht Jliimstratc s Lourt .yesterday. Jillcii Uoti, SO years ot age, was charged with UuepiiiK a house ot ill-i'auio in ilartiu Street, within tlio meaning of tlie War Kegukitioiis. und Eva tireli, ilyra Donaldson, and Nora Nugent were charged with assisting in the management of the ulace. The whole four were convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment each. Jb'or insobriety Louisa I'iwnoy was fined 10s., in default three days' imprisonment, and Minnie Nelson was fined i!os., with tilt! option ot! seven days' imprisonment, l-'ive first olfenders were convicted and discharged. Thomas Mee was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and on a charge of beins an idle and disorderly person, in that he possessed insufficient lawful means of support, he was ordered to come up lor sentence when called upon. William Gooch, .Gtorge Isaacs and Thomas Eielly, convicted of using threatening behaviour in Cambridge Terrace, whereby a breach of the peace was committed, wevo each fined 10s. and costs, and also expenses of witnesses. For committing a breach of his prohibition order William Alfred Phillips was fined 10s., and ordered to pay costs 7s. MOTORISTS IN COURT. John Bnrker. for driving a motor-car without a registered mark or brand beins visible, was ordered to pay 7s. costs. For leaving a, motor-car unattended in Lambton Quay, Howard Nattras was fined 10s., and ordered to pay costs 7s. William Henry Salter, for driving a motor-car past a standing tram-car while passengers- were about to alight, was fined 205., and ordered to pay costs totalling £1 15s. < For having insufficient light on their vehicles Fred. Beard, Louis Brouzh, and James Wilson were each fined 10s. and costs 75., and for a similar offence Arthur Horner was ordered to pay 7s. costs. WANDERING STOCK. For allowing stock to wander Chas. \V. iiayJid was fined ss. and costs Hs.; James Bradshaw was fined 2s. lid. and costs 75.; Norman Ellice, Ernest Hadley and W. liandell were each ordered to pav 7s. costs; C. Harris and W. Stacc were each ordered to nay Bs. 9d. costs; N. Shannon was fined 10s. and costs 7s. BY-L'AW CASES. Thomas Phillips Williams, who failed to appuur, was charged with omitting to Day H train fare -when called upon to do so by ii tram conductor. Ho was convicted and lined ss. 'and ordered to pay expenses lls., in default suven days' inipriiounient. For failing to notify an accident, to the Inspector of Scaffolding Richard William Marliu was ordered to jwy 9s. costs and expenses of witness ss. ' ,TERRITORIALS .IN TROUBLE. For failing, to attend drill Arthur Hughes and Montague Frauds Rowlands wero each lined ss. and costs 75., in default; three days' military detention. Charles Marsh was lined 10s. and costs 75., with the alternative of seven days' military detention. OTHER. CASKS.

. Juhn IJ. Childs. for whom Air. H. li , . O'Leary . appeared. w:oceedcd isainst Wiillor Tail, represented by Mr. J. J. Jl'Urath, for assauLt i>»d sliced for sureties to keep the peiice. The p;irl:irs are sowing machine vendors, and u personal disniiLo culminated in the aseault. .After hearing the evidence tho Magistrate fined defendant 405.. but declined to order him to find sureties to keep tho pence. An fiction was brought by Ai-lhnr Shaef, for whom Mr. ,T, ,f. H'Orath appeared, ngainst Isabel Davey nnd Gladys Diivfy, represented bv j\fr. E. jl. Beachey, a claim for .fci 10s. «nd possession of tenement. Tho ease lasted ail tho afternoon and aat 5 p.m. was adjourned to Tuesday to enable defendant's'counsel lo Taise a non-suit point.