MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

'Before Mr, W. G. Riddell, S.M., at .the Magistrate's Court this morning, Jessie Hay was charged with importuning. She pleaded not guilty, and was convicted and discharged on condition -that she remained in the Salvation Army -iHome for six months, Thomas Barry Twos fined 10s for drunkenness, and for ;th» same offence John Howard was similarly mulcted. John Quinn and John •iioorc were fined 10s and 5s respectively foj 1 ' inebriety, and were further ordered ,;tft pay 20s each for committing a breach f*>{ the peace. In default of payment •rtdey will go to gaol for seven days, Harry Spencer was sent to Rotoroa Inobriatee' Home, for one year, Frederick 'Chick, changed with being helplessly '-tirunk was remanded for a week for - taedical treatment. Michael ( Scullion, .-■who stole two plates of sniiKJ from the brawler Energy, was fined 40s, with the option of going to gaol for seven days. George Edward Odlin, builder, of , Brooklyn, sued Alexander M'Kenzie, -■fisherman, of Paremata, for £2 10s, alleged to be due for the pur••(•haee and cartage of a tank from Brookilyii to Paremata. Mr. J. C. Peacock ''appeared for plaintiff, and Mf. J. J. >M Grath for defendant. There -was a total claim for £7 7s 7d, but £5 15s 7d iWae paid into Court. Judgment was . given for this latter amount, and plaintiff jVfts ordered to pay defendant's costs, Mr. Keir, J.P., presided over a sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court this morning t Charged with drunkenness, Robert Tait and Annie Getty were fined iIOb each, with the option of two days' 'detention. For a similar offence James "Palmer* and Thomas Maloney were convicted and discharged, nnd Norman ■M'Phee was mulcted in the sum of 40s, irt defatdfc fourteen days' imprisonment.