MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 134, 3 December 1915, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Ten first-offending inebriates appeared before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. They were dealt with in the usual manner. .- Waino Ducktig was fined £3 with 8s costs, or one month's imprisonment in default, for having used obscene language in Lambton-q\iay last night. \ Guy Cooper was convicted of having used obscene language in Haining-street, and was ordered to pay 20s, with. 7s costs', or to go to gaol for three days. James Mason pleaded guilty to having supplied liquor to a soldier at a place other than the premises on which it was sold. He did not know he was breaking the law, he s:ud. He was fined £2 with 'rusts (13s). Alexander Macdonald, charged with having used obscene language in Torystreet, was fined 20s, with 7s costs, in default- three days' imprisonment. John M'Kinnon pleaded guilty to a breach of his prohibition order by entering a hotel. Be was fined £l, with 7s costs. Ellen Parsonage pleaded guilty to a charge of having sold firearms to a youth. She was fined ss, with 15s COSUi. xVlfred Hoy pleaded not guilty to a. charge of having used threatening behaviour in Cuba-street, whereby a breach of, the peace was occasioned. Edward Rogers, who was concerned in the fray, had pleaded guilty. Hoy declared that the other man was the aggressor. His Worship dismissed the information against Hoy, and fined Rogcre 10s, with 7s costs. For having allowed stock to wander, George Nash was fined ss, with 7s costs. For a similar offence, p. Bevis was convicted and discharged. J. M. Porter was charged with a breach of the Shops and Offices Act by employing an assistant afte? hours without having obtained the consent of the inspector. Mr. T. N'eave appeared for defendant. He stated that one of defendant's assistants enlisted and went into camp, his other assistant was given leave to get married, and the assistant employed to carry on temporarily came back at night to finish some work; and was well paid for it. Under the circumstances, his Worship merely entered * conviction. Isaac Sykes, for whom Mr. W. Perry appeared, pleaded guilty to having left his motor-car standing' without a taillight. He was convicted and ordered to pay 7s costs. William Jackson Almond, charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he had insufficient lawful means of support, was described by the police as a- loafer with a bad record. He was sent to gaol for three months. A' charge of being a rogue and vagabond wa« preferred against William Thomas, alias R. W. Thomas. He was given an even worse character, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. John Cochrane, Henry M'Lau"hlan. and Samuel Smith, for whom Mr. J. .L M'Grath appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge, of having been found' on" the Shamrock Hotel shortly after 8 o'clock on Sunday morning. The defence was that the men were working from an early hour in the morning at adjacentstables decorating their vehicles for Labour Day, and that they had, ns previously arranged, gone to' the hot-el for breakfast. That was the only reason for their being on the premises' His WorI ship dismissed the case.

For having failed to carry a tail-light on his motor-car, Charles Physick was fined ss, with 7s costs.

When you apply liniments and lotions Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, and Lumbago do not leave you. They simply loosen their hold for a time. To get rid o£ those dread diseases you must drive the uric acid from the Hood. Bheumo does it—that's why it cures. 2s 6d and 4s 6d per bottle.—Advt.