MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1912, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

To-day's sitting of the Magistrates Court was presided over by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. Rose Fraeer, charged with theft of a metal watch valued at 265, was remanded uirtil Monday. Bail was fixed in th& sum of £10. In connection with this case, Fredk. Yansen was charged with having received tho stolen article. He pleaded not guilty, and was remanded until tomorrow. LuoyWeston and Annio Smith, for importuning and loitering, were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment. They refused to enter tho Salvation Army Home. Wm. Mack and Annie Maude Sales were fined 10s , for drunkenness, and a penalty of 20s was imposed on Geo, Harris for a similar offence. < Fredk. Watte, for fighting on the (juoen's Wharf last evening, was penalised in the sum of £2. A deserter from H.M.S. Encounter, Geo. Thomas, was remanded. He was ordered to remain in custody until the naval authorities are communicated with. Robert Smith, who was arrested yesterday at Blenheim, pleaded guilty to a charge of having obtained £2 from Frederick Dobson by moans of false pro tcncoß. In asking for a remand, Chief' Detective Broberg stated that other charges would be preferred against acicused. A remand until Wednesday next wars granted. Charles Acheson, who rode a motor cycle at too fast a paco round tho corner of Willte-atroet, was fined 20s, with costs 7s For leaving a vehiol© .in Taranakistreet, Samuel Bennett was ordered to pay costs (76). David Androws and Phillip H. Goss, who failed to fence an excavation on tho old Ohnriu-road, Johnsonville, were conviotsd, und ordered to pay court costs, 113. In tho caso in which Honry Marshall was charged with failing to tako the oath of allegiance undor the Defence Act, it was statud by Sub-Inspector Shoehan that defendant, had now registered. Tho information was withdrawn. Wm, Henry Ellis and Emily Alice Yause were made the subjects of prohibition orderu. Albert G\ Beu, for precting a scaffolding without notifying the Inspector of Scaffolding, was fined 10s, with costs 7s. ]fc was sis ted by Mr. Kennudy, who appeared for defendant, that defendant had no idea I hat _it was necessary to give notice to the inspector, Chung Wall and Co. and Hop T*,i and Co., for employing assistants after houre, wero iiued 20s and 4Cte respectively. Hop Tui and Co. had previously been convicted for a Bimilat' offence. Michael M'Crath was charged with having left a vohicle in Taranaki-streot. ,H& pleaded not guilty, stating that the vehicle was brought to him for repairs, and that it was impossible to shift it into* hia shop until the axle had cooled. The , inform? tion was dismissed, Mr. J. J.M'Grath appeared for defendant.