MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Ten first offending inebriates came before Mr. D. G- A. Cooper, S.M., at today's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Four who were found drunk yesterday were fined 5s each, two had their bail of 10s estreated, and the others were convicted and discharged. Alfred Suther, for a third offence, was fined 40s, in default seven days in gaol, while Michael Keating was fined 20s, and Isaac Meyers, John Henderson, and Andrew Anderson 10s each. John Joseph Smith was convicted and discharg-etl for drnnltenness, and for committing a grossly indecent act he was fined £2, in default seven days in custody. ~ On remand, Alfred Fress was charged with being found in a helplessly drunk state at Upper Hutt a week ago. He was ordered to pay 17s 6d for his maintenance while in gaol, in default ordered to spend three more days in custody. For using obscene language, Archibald M'Phee and James Skilling were each fined £3, -n-ith the alternative of one month's hard labour. The former was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. A youth named Robert Francis Kelly, seventeen years of age, pleaded guilty to the theft of money (31s) from Sylvia Gassie. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Ellen Armitage, an elderly woman, .pleaded guilty through Mr. H. F. O'Leary to the use of obscene language. She was also convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A charge of being found on the Caledonian Hotel at a time when the premises were directed to be closed was preferred against Timothy O'Leary. O'Leary pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, with 7s costs, in default ordered to spend three days in gaol. 1 For breaking the terms of her prohibition order, Ellen Hawthorne was fined 20s, with costs (7s), in default three days In gaol.

The Bluff correspondent of the Lyttflton Times states that Mr. Adam Adamson, of Mason's Bay, on the west 'coast of Stewart Island, returned to Bluff on Tuesday night for the first time for twelve months, and brought over 2030z of ambergris, which he had picked up on the beach. The value is an unknown quantity at present, as there has been no demand since the war. Ambergris is principally used in tile manufacture of scents and champagne, and the bottom has dropped out of both of these markets. Before the war Mr. Adamson was receiving £2 16s per ounce, but the market has at times run up to about £8 per ounce, according to the supply.