MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Twp first-offe.nding inebriates were dealt with in the usual manner. Kathleon Stanley waa convicted and discharged for drunkenness, fined £1 for a breach of her prohibition prder, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond , Bruce M'Landers was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for drunkenness, and fined £0 for a breach of his probibitiqn order. For drunkenness and a breach of his prohibition order, Ernest Albert Lovell was penalised in the; sum of £1. Theft of two sums of money— 3ob and £113 7a-rfrom Albert Goooh, at Kftbirnie, 0.1 the 20th and 24th of January, was admitted by Thomas Gordon, described as a oarter, who cara,e to the Dominion as a stowaway on an intercolonial steamer some timo ago. Gordon was boarding with Gooch, and took the money from a box. _ He was sentenced 10 ono month's imprisonment. ihomaß H. Bransgrovo w&b sentenced to twonty-ono days' imprisonment for disobedience of a maintenance order. ATdert James Bryne was ako sentenced to ono month's imprisonment for disobedience of a maintenance order. The order, however, ie to ba suspended if the arrears arc paid within a month. Denis VaugTian O'Donnell was ordered to contribute 5s per week towards the maintenance qt his illegitimate child, Mary Theresa Barker applied for a separation from her husband, Joseph T. Barker. Aftor hearing evidence, however, life Worship refused to make an order. James Mack, charged with indecency at Lyall Bay yesterday, was remanded until tho sth inst. Bail was allowed him in the sum of £25. At the Mount Cook Police Court this morning tho following persona appeared beforo Me. Horace Baker, J.P., on obarges of drunkenness, and wer,e, dealt with as follows:— Henry Diokinaon was fined 2Q«, the option being seven days' imprjspninent ; and Norman M'Phee, William Plymouth Brown, William Hogg, and one first offender wore each fined ss, the alternative being twenty-four ligurt detention.