MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day, and dealt with police, bylaw, and licensing eases.

Two first-offending inebriates were fined 10s, in default 24 hours in gaol. Michael Coleman, for a second offence of drunkenness, was fined 20s, in default a week in the cells, and Jesse Underwood. also a second offender within the meaning of the Act, was, at his own request, prohibited for twelve months, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Walter Watson pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a threatening manner, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned, but explained that he had been grossly insulted by the man whom he struck. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

Ernest Cunningham arid Henry Pratley were each fined 10s, with costs 7s, for driving without lights. Michael Fitzgerald, who did not appear to answer a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the Tew Zealander Hotel after hours, was fined 20s. with costs 7s.

For riding a bicycle without lights on the Hutt-road after sunset, 5f ichael Joseph Cleary was fined 10s, with' costs 7s.

i A similar fine was imposed in the case fof Lars Rupert Hallgren, who had driven a motor-car without a tail light.

Henry Harris wa-s also fined 10s, .with costs 17s 6d. for driving without lights.

For driving at an excessive speed through the city, Donald Dobson was penalised in the sum of £2, with costs 25s 6d, in default 48 hours in gaol.

Frederick G. King, who had found the csyclo track along the Hutt-road more suited for motor-cycling than the' road itself, was fined ss.

James Diggs, in explanation of a charge of driving on the wrong side of the Courtenay-place plantation and tram sheds, said he had no knowledge of the existence' of the bylaw. He was fined 10s with costs 7s, in defa.ult a week in the cells. ■

Joseph Henning and C. M. M'Kenzie were each fined £2, with costs 17s 6d, in default seven_ days in gaol, for driving motor-cars without lights in the city.

•John Dreyfcldt some little time ago refused to move in from a tramway platform when requested to do so by the conductor, and his refusal and the conductor's insistence led to a tussle, during which the silver in the ticketbag was distributed generously about the car, but all but 3s or 4s was recovered. This morning Droyfeldt was convicted, and ordered to pay costs' amounting to £1 13s 6d on the charge of refusing to move in when requested to do so, and for the assault on the conductor, Philip L. Rosser, was fined £3, in default fourteen days in gaol. Robert Hall, the occupier of a dwelling in Rugby-street where a chimney recently caught fire^ was fined 2s 6d, and ordered to pay costs amounting to 17s 6d. James Proctor must pay a fine of £2 and costs 17s 6d, or go to gaol for seven days, following his conviction on a charge of having left a motor-car unattended in Lambton-quay. Gilbert H. Price, a tobacconist, who had failed to close his premises, as required by the Act, at 7 p.m., was fined £3, with Court costs 7s. Patrick Cavanagh, who has many times previously been convicted on charges of allowing stock to wander on the "long paddock," explained the occurrences which led to. two further charges, by stating that he had not been able to obtain labour to attend to the stock. On one charge he was fined 10s, with 17s 6d costs, in default a week in the cells, and on the second count was given the option of paying a fine of £3 or going to gaol for a

(Proceeding.)