MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1910, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

» At 3 a.m. to-day a man named Charles William Nicholson was passing the General Post Office wheeling a hand-cart. A policeman, who saw him, was suspicious, and he enquired as to the contents of the vehicle. The man said it contained nothing, but the officer found it to be laden with scrap-iron. He arrested Nicholson, who appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., charged with stealing the metal, valued at about £l. Accused admitted the offence. Sub-In-spector Norwood stated that the scrapiron belonged to the Railways Department. It had been taken from near the Davis-street crossing, where a further quantity had been heaped, evidently preparatory to being carted away. He asked for a remand, as about £3 worth of copper had been previously missed. Accused was remanded for sentence till Monday. When James Ford appeared on charges of intemperance and of being a prohibited person found in possession of liquor, it was stated that last month he had cut his throat with a "razor during a drunken frenzy. He was treated at the hospital at a cost to the State of £20. Later, he was brought before the court. A prohibition order was taken out, and he was admitted to probation. "And this is tho result," commented Sub-In-spector Norwood. For drunkenness, accused was convicted and discharged, and for the second offence he was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Michael Riley admitted being helplessly drunk at Otaki a week ago. He had been remanded to Wellington for treatment. It was mentioned that his tariff during sojourn at the gaol was 2s 6d a day. Accused was convicted and ordered to pay 17s 6d expenses. Of three first-offending inebriates, two were convicted and discharged, and the third — out on bail — was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A young woman • was charged with having bbtained a pair of boots from Henry Miller, at the Lower Hutt, by false pretences. It was stated by the police, that accused was a first offender. She obtained the boots in the name of a bank manager's wife, and wap : willing now to pay for them. * She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that she paid for the goods within a week.

At a meeting of Cabinet this morning tenders were accepted for the supply of New Zealand-made furniture for the new Government house. The names of the tendering firms have not been disclosed, but it is understood that some of them are from Wellington. The Wellington Harbour Ferries, Ltd., will run excursions to Day's Boy to-mor-row.