MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 75, 25 September 1912, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■»/' lb° Mogisti'dtd'a Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Jlkldt.ll, S.M., Annie Winifred Dunn, tot drunkenness, was fined 10s, in default ordered to undergo fcwehty■PY v? utH imprisonment. Frederick John Way was remanded until to-morrow in Order that enquiries might be made to see whether he could be taken in at the °fei'° P*? 1111 * 16 ', Hastings, charged with theft of tobacco from Chow Chook, was remanded until to-morrow. A voufch named Ralph Balcombe pleaded miiky to a charge of breaking into Mj<3 shop of Arthur Walling, tobacconist, of Manners-street, find stealing therefrom tho sum of £9 IDs 6d and two tins of cigarettes. Balcombo was opmmitted to the Supreme Court for sentence. Frederick White and Joseph Ilcaimiiigs ■wore crtnrged with Btoaling a watch, v/iiuetl at £2 6b, from the person of William Smithmias. His Worship held that a prims, fade case had been made out, and both accused were committed foi; trial to the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in £20 in eaoh ease. At the Mount Cook Police Court to-day, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., Everland Butler was declared an habifiualdrunkftrd, and was fined 40*. the alternative being fixed at one month's imprisonment. Ono first offender who wa« on bail and who did noli appimt, was fined 10.«, in default foffcy^eight hour*' detention. Two first offender* were convicted and discharged.