MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1911, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

To-day's sittihg of the Magistrate's Hourfc was presided over by My. W. G. Uiddell, S.M. Mary .foyoe, charged witk dfunkenness, and with a broach of a prohibition ordor, was 'ordered to be placed in tho Paketoa Homo for a pcriocl of OV9 year. •John Shannon and William Stevens vi ere convicted and discharged for drunkoiitiOM, and were each lined JB3 fov a breach ot a prohibition order. The alter, native was twenty-ono days' imprisonment. 1 Patrick Dnly was convicted ond disohiwged for drunkeimcM, and mulcted in i ft penalty of £2, with the option of sevt-u i days' detention, for 11 breach of a prohibi- ] tion orde>\ _ A Hrs'-cP.'cndifitf inebriate \va« convictc'l a-nd disukai'gcci. Geofg» Johnson appenrsd before Mr, ! 'George L^who^. J.P., a fc (ho Mount Cook rolire t.out't ihw morning on a charge of umnkennes!:. nml wns fined 10s, tho op! ion bring fm-ty-oight hours' detention. One lifsb oftender, >m bail, who failed to appear, wa-j also linod 10?, with a siniilac 'ttllornatavd. Another Jhst offender was .convicted itnd 'lischarged.

The Navy League Conference decided to-dd.y, at the instance oi Mr. R. Dar« lwh. seconded by the Rev. £. EliotClnffiboTs, tv urge upon the New Zealand doverninftflt the dftsirableness of increasing the number of naval cadetships for New Zealand boys tenable at siho,,£pyal Naj^^gUege at ..Osboiae.