MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

"I sprained my foot, and my wife is away for a fortnight's holiday, and I got too much drink," said Charl<M Hill, when charged with drunkenness at the Magiatratoi Court thi* moniin-:, befoie Mr. W. R. Haselden, S..M. He added that his wife wax coming home this afternoon, and »he could nut get into the house unless he wan there. This was Hill's second offence, and tho Magistrate took a lenient view of th« matter and discharged the accused. Wm Suckling, charged with being a rocuo and vagabond, pleaded guilty. He hud no fundf, he said, but he would w.ilk bark to the country. Mr. Hafteldcn cautioned him and let him go. Richard Evan*, for a third offenco against the laws of sobriety, was fined 15s, with the alternative of three davit' imprisonment. Frank Pettengell pleaded not guilty to a charge of having cruelly ill-treated a horse by working it while it was suffering from a sore wither. Mr. Jackson appeared for the defendant, and asked for s remand until Friday. The application waa granted on the understanding that the horse will be submitted for bis Wornhip's inspection on Monday. A first offending inebriate was discharged. At tho Mount Cook Police Court this morninjr, before Mr. J. Coogan, J.P. , William Ptonner, Denin Maho^icy, John Francis Sheriff, and George Craig, for drunkenness weie all convicted and discharged.