Magistrates Court.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 14 July 1885, Page 2

Magistrates Court.

This Dat. (Before Mr. H. S. Wardeli, DBtJNKINNBSS. James Simpson, one of the err Coptic, who had only jaatbeen gaol, was fined 5a and 2b Gd w

been drunk. Honora Setter, an old offender, pleaded Not Guilty to having been drunk iv her husband's house,' Taraualn-street, yesterday. Sho was discharged. A CATAPULTIBT. Henry Whitaker, a tiny boy, was charged with uaing a catapult, the atone from whioh struck a lady at Oriental Bay on Thursday lost, A witness named Hears stated that he uaw tho defendant diaohargo a stone at a lady in a carriage. Defendant said that the affair was the reßult of an aocident, and as he expressed regret at his conduct, the Bench discharged him, with a fine of Is. VIBX BAISIB. Edward Brown, a deaperado whose height prevented hia looking over the prisoner's dock, waa charged with setting fire to gorae on the Adelaide-road. Constable Stewart proved the offence. Ine Bench remarked that owners of propeity who permitted gorse to grow upon their land offered an inducement to boys to fire it. Ihe young fire raiser was discharged with an admonition from tho Benoh to attend to hta aoholaatio duties more regularly. TJNLIC-NBBD JEHUS. James Sutherland pleaded Guilty to having toted us oonduotor to a hackney carnage. Defendant aaid that he did not know that a license was required for a conductor of a haoknoy carriage. John Walters, a driver in the employ of Mr. SomerviHe, was oharged with driving a hackney carriage on 4th instant whioh waa not licensed. A. G. Johnson Btatid that he saw the defendant on the day of the Costume Footba'l Matoh driving a tour-horse van and plying for hire to the Nowtown Park. The dofendant waa a licensed driver, but the carriage he was driving waa not Hoensed. He had taken tho present proceedinga on acoount of cabmen having complained that Mr. BomerviUepliod certain vehioles for hire withont possessing licenses for thorn. He desired to mention that the informations boforethe Court wore not laid at the instigation of the tramway authoritios. Tho defendant Walters was a man of good character and an oiperfc diiver, and therefore he aaked hia Worship not to endorse j his license. Mr. SomerviHe explained that he had put on tho Empire 'Bus on the day in question for the benefit of tho publio, and thero was not a licensed conduotor of a tram or 'bus in the oity. The boy Suthorland > worked in his blacksmith's shop, and both he and Walters had acted under his instructions. The Benoh iuflioted a fine of 20a and 7a costs in Sutherland's case, and 40s in the cue of Walters.