MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided

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MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided

at tc-day's sitting of the Magistrate s Court. One person, on the occasion of his first laps© into insobriety, 1 was convicted and discharged. A charge of failure to maintain his child was admitted by Alexander Aitcheson, who had been arrested at Timaru. The arrears amounted to £25 4s, and it was reported that nothing j whatever had been paid on the order, j Defendant asserted that he was unable to .pay anything, owing to ill-health. He was sentenced to one month's imprifon- , ment- ■ A middle-aged man named David Alexander M'Kay denied having failed I to provide adequate means of maintonI ance for his wile and four children. The i evidence showed that defendant formerly earned £3 3s as a ganger on the railway line at Kaiwarra, and then left for Napier ostensibly to look for work. He was ordered to pay 15s a week towards the support of his wife and os for each of the four children, also £2 2s solicitor's fee. Mt. P. W. Jackson appeared for complainant. This morning's sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court was presided ovsr by Mr. Thomas Bland, J.P., when George Watkins was fined 10s, with an option of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and Albert Anderson, for being drunk and disorderly, was ordered to pay 40s, the alternative being fixed at seven days' detention.