MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 21, 25 July 1910, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Three first-offending inebriates who made no appearance iorfeited their bail, 10s each. Another had to be remanded till the Ist August for curative treatment, and a fifth was convicted and discharged. For procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, Ernest Knight Davis was tined 40s, with a seven days' alternative ; on a count of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged. A melee in Willis-street shortly after 9 o'clock on Saturday night resulted in the appearance of two young men, one of whom, Robert Rollo, was charged (1) with • drunkenness, (2) with using obscene language, and (3) with refusing to quit the Grand Hotel when requested to do so. According to the police, Rollo was very quarrelsome, and had to be ejected by two constables/ at the same time he used obscene language both in and out of the hotel. On the first count he was convicted and discharged ; for the obscene language a penalty of £5 was imposed, default being 21 days' imprisonment; and for his refusal to quit the hotel he was in a penalty of 20s, with a seven days' alternative. Arising out of the same disturbance waa a charge against William M'Leod that he incited Rollo to resist the -police. His Worship remarked that the detective may have made a mistake, and the information was dismissed. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for defendant. Chow Ivee, for allowing his chimney to be on fire, was fined ss, and ordered to pay costs 7b, the alternative being 24 hours in gaol. For allowing his horse to wander, George Walter Dickenson was ordered to pay court costs 7s. William M'Guire admitted having 6tolen s>ix kits, valued at 6s, the property of faome person unknown. Defendant •»vas apprehended' last Thursday with the kits stuffed under his coat ; he was in company with a convicted thief. Mr. C. K. Dix, on behalf of accused, said that M'Guire had come to town from a flaxmill, and had spent his cheque largely i:i drink. He remembered nothing about the theft. A conviction was entered, and M'Guire was ordered to' come up for sentence when called upon, provided he went to work to-day. Stanley James was ordered to pay 10s a week towards maintenance of his wilo ; 5s a week for maintenance of his child Harriett Elizabeth Montgomery was granted summary separation from her husband, Edmund Montgomery, theatrical manager, on the ground of want of maintenance together with custody of two chiklien, and defendant was ordered to pay 30=. a .veek towards maintenance of iht. three. Solicitors' fee £2 2s, and cost;* 4s were alloyed. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared on behalf of complainant. James Joseph Curran was convicted of disobeying an order to pay 28s a. week for maintenance of his wife and children, and s&ntenced to one month's imprisonment, thd- warrant to be. suspended so long as 10s a w<?ok is paid. Edward O. M'Guire was adjudged the putative father of an illegitimate child, and ordered to pay 10s a week towards its I maintenance.