MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 154, 27 December 1912, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

♦ William Teevis was before Messrs. Danks and Lambert, Justices of the Peace, at- the 1 Magistrate's Court to-day, and fined 10s for insobriety. Philip Angel, for obscene language, was fined £1 with the option of going to gaol for seven days. J*mes Boyd, who deserted from the R.M.S. Ruapehu in this month just two years ago, was sent to gaol for one month.' Boyd had been a quartermaster on, the vessel, .and his desertion caused great inconvenience. It was explained that he had joined the Otaki, and received £25. for the trip Home, travelling as a seaman under an assumed name. At the Mount Cook Police Court toI day, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., I the following cases of insobriety Were dealt with:— George Hastings, who appeared' for, the seventy-fourth time, pleaded hard for another chance, but having several recent convictions, he was fined 40s, or fourteen days' imprisonment. Thomas North, with twenty previous convictions, was fined Ss or 24 hours' detention. Thomas Smith, who had been bailed out, did not appear, and was fined the amount of his bail (10s), with ( the option of 48 hours' detention. Albert Edward Downs and a first offender were admonished, xonvicted, and discharged. | At the Petone Police Court this morn•rtg, before Messrs. M'ftwan and Soiithgate, J.p.'s, Peter Gutteril was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. On a charge of using obscene 'language he was convicted and fined 10s with the alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment.