MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 57, 4 September 1914, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

— o Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the jMagistrate's Court, and dnco again inebriates figured largely in the list. May M'Manus admitted a charge of drunkenness and was fired £2, in default fourteen days, in gaol. Mary Hunter pleaded not guilty to a. similar charge, but the <ovicleo.ee went against her, and she was fined £l, in default three days' imprisonment. James M'Michael and Charles Fowler were both fined 10s, and Richard Crooks was mulcted in a penalty of £1/-' Six first offenders were leniently dealt with, and one other, who was obviously still suffering from the effects of dTink, wafe remanded until to-morrow. When. Phillip Hosking was arrested yesterday for drunkenness, he stTenuoubly resisted the constable, and for this was fined £1, or in the alternative, ordered to spend three days in gaol. Walter Henry Smith was charged with being drunk while in charge of a vehicle in Lambton-quay. He was convicted and fined £1, in default three days in gaol. A<n articled seamen on the Mokoia named John Hands was arrested yester,day, the allegation being that he stole 'a rug, the propei'ty of the Union Steam Ship Company. He appeared before the Court, and on the application of Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, remand for one week was granted. John Barnes was charged with a breach of his probationary license. Inspector Hendry said accused had just arrived from Palmerston North, and he had no particulars to place before th© Court. A remand was accordingly granted until to-morrow. For drunkenness Daniel Donnelly was fined 10s, in default 48 hours in gaol, and on a charge of theft of £2 from Yftlliam Thomas Waters he was remanded until to-morrow. James Prockter, for driving a motor-car at night without a tail light attached vvas fined Is, with costs 7s. James Contts Crawford was fined ss, - with costs, for leaving a motor-car unattended for a period longer than five minutes. For driving a motor-car on the Hunterstreet stand when there were already th© requisite number of cars awaiting hire, Arthur E. Fitzgerald was fined ss, with costs 7s. • A short sitting of the Petone Police Court was held this morning, before Messrs. J. Wakeham and J. Piper, J.P.'s. Two first-offending inebriates w-ere convicted and discharged. Cbarle9 King, for depositing a load of sand on Britaamiarstreot, -without a permit, was fined ss, with costs 7s.