MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 147, 18 December 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

The Bench at the Magistrate's Court was occupied by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., to-day. Two first, offending; inebriates were dealt with--in the usual manner. Robert Collier was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, arid was ordered to pay a fine of £1; or go to gaol for seventy-two hours for having broken his. prohibition order. William Conrick, an elderly man,, who admitted: similar offen-ces,-was dealt ivith in a-like manner Jeremiah M'Carthy was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and was orderedto replace a mirror he'had smashed ,in.the Britannia Hotel by a cash payment of £3,, or to go to gaol for fourteen days. ' ■ A young man named Robert James Hazel wood, who pleaded guilty some days ago 1 to a charge of having stolen a dozen silk handkerchiefs valued at £1 18s, the property of Butterworth Bros., was brought before the Court for sentence this ■ morning. Chief Detective Boddam said that inquiries showed that the lad's ■ parents'were very respectable people, but recently he had gone to live at Lyall Bay .away from-home, and had there picked up with bad companions, one of whom had been penalised in the sum of £5 for having received the stolen handkerchiefs. Everitt was admitted to probation for two years, and was ordered to make good the^value; of the handkerchiefs, which ha** not. been recovered. George Purdom was remanded to appear at Christchurch on Monday next on a charge of haying stolen, about six feet of leather belting and part of a set of harness of a total value of £7 Bs, the property of John Brightling, of Sydenham.