MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 149, 25 June 1915, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Charged before Mr. t>. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, this morning, with having escaped from the Salvation Army Home, May Wills pleadea guilty. She had been sent there a« a condition of her sentence by the Supreme Court, and as the Migistrata had no jurisdiction to deal with her, she wa« remanded for a week. . A first-offending inebriate was con* victed and discharged. James Hertry Murray, convicted of having refused to leave licensed premises when he was in a drunken condition, wag fined 20s 5' in. default three days' imprisonment. Charles Daniels and Walter Baldwin, charged with having left their cabs un» attended, were each fined sb, with costs (7s). Arthur Alexander was fined ss, with 7s costs, for having driven a motor-car after sunset without a tail light. Harold Belworthy pleaded guilty to having ridden at more than four mile» an hour across Manners-street and Cubastreet. He collided with a motor cycle, 1 but no damage was done. He was fined 10s, with 7s costs." For having left his motor-car unattended, Charles Barrington was fined Ss, with 7s coats. A similar penalty ' was imposed, on Frederick Fredorico for having left his baker's cart in the street without a light after sunset, and on George .Julian for a like offence in regard to a motor* car. A charge, of having stolen eighteen fowls and a leg of pork was preferred against Frank Alfred Barton and John Millanta. The property alleged to have been stolen belonged to Nicholas Bertanes, restaurant Keeper, Courtenayplace. The day after the fowls wero missed the accused Millanta offered to sell five pairs of fowls and a leg of pork to Mr. Bertanes, who accepted tha offer. When the fowls were delivered Millanta was faced with a policeman. The hearing of the case was adjourned till to-morrow morning, to enable the ac» cused to call evidence. Thomas Stevens did not appear to answer a charge of having behaved in c violent and offensive manner in a rai> way carriage at Lambton Station, 'i. warrant was issued for his arrest. LaUr in the day Mr. Diekson. appeared pr defendant, and asked for an adjou'nment of the case for a week. Inspe<tor Hendrey said his witnesses had beer in attendance, and he claimed a full Ay's expenses for them. The adjournment was granted) the question of expnses will stand over. For having used an unlicensed otpress for the carriage of goods, Edwin Shaw was fined 20s, with 7s costs. Fines of 5s in each ease were flposed. on. Emil Johanson, Frederick JoMs, and Thomas Waters for having allowd stock to wander. Maurice Baker denied a oarge of having ridden a bicycle across he intersection of Cuba»street and Mannere* street at more than four mileian hour. He was convicted and orderd to pay Court costs, 7r. Victor Smith was charged *ith having left his motor-car unattende* on Lamb-ton-quay. "There have- befl a lot of complaints about this sort of thing," said his Worship. Under the circum* stances, however, which showed the existence of a practice recoAuod among employers and drivers, thecase was dismissed.

A Press Association nessage from Duhedin states : —The Vestry of St. John's, Invercai'gill, 1» accepted tho nomination of the "V». Archdeacon Richards, Vicar of La'roncc, for iho vacant charge, in BU<ession to Arch* deacon Packe, removi to _ Gisborne. Archdeacon Richards, who is on furlough in England, is «ng communicated with regarding tl appointment. The late boat to'E't-bourne and Day's Bay to-night leaves A« Ferry Wharf at 9.30 p.m. instead 0fW.16 p.m. This is to be tho fixed tim on Friday ©vonings for the future, to n** the s»w conditions brought about by general Saturday clo&iag.