MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 47, 25 August 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E.-Page, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when police and maintenance cases were under consideration. .

For insobriety, five first offenders were fined 10a, the amount of the bail'allowed them. '

An elderly .man named Michael Collins, was convicted and ■ discharged for drunkenness, and was fined. ss, with 7s costs, for having broken his prohibition order.

Alfred Magson, a ship's fireman, plead-, •ed guilty to charges of drunkenness and having committeed an indecent act. He was convicted and discharged on the first charge and fined £5, in default seven days in gaol, on the second.

Michael M'Cabe arid .John Kare, who had engaged in a brief set-to in Torystreet, were placed in the dock together. Kare, an Indian, alleged that M'Cabe had grossly insulted him by referring in most objectionable terms to his colour. M'Cabe denied this allegation, and said that Kare had picked.a (juarrel-without provocation, and that he (M'Cabe) had merely acted in self-defence. Both defendants were convicted, M'Cabe being fined £3, and Kare merely convicted and. discharged.

Abraham Walley Mahomed Salaman, who had disregarded the provisions 'of a maintenance order made against him, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as the arrears, £3 7s 6d, are paid off at the rate of 7s 6d per week and the current payments kept up.

. George Smith Gaskill is to pay off £6 Is arrears at the rate of Ss per week and to keep up the current payments under the original order' or go to gaol for a month. ■ ( „ Arthur Thompson Turon. Cooper, whose arrears in respect of a maintenance order amounted to £25, and. Matthew O'Neill, whose arrears amounted to £15, must, either pay off the arrears at the rate of 10s per week, and also keep up their current payments, or go to gaol for a month. Miriam Elizabeth Jones sought to obtain maintenance from her husband, Arthur Wellesley Jones, from whom she has been living apart from some years. In 1917 the Court made an order that the husband should contribute 2s 6d per week towards the support of each of four children, but no order was then made in respect of the wife, who for a period of twelve years had resided with her children- with" her father at Pahautanui. Mr. H. F. O'Learjj fov the defendant, said that the Court had refused to make an order in respect of the wife in 1917 on the ground that the wife had been guilt/ of desertion. Three of the children were now over age; defendant, however, was willing to divert the whole of tbe 10s to the benefii of the fourth child, for whom he was still liable for maintenance. The Magistrate declined to make an order,in respect to the maintenance of the wife, but granted a sesond application for a variation of the order for payments towards the support of the children, and. ordered that Jones should pay 12s 6d per week in place of 10s towards the support of the child not yet 16 years of age. (Proceeding.)

A sitting of the Court was held at Mount Cook Police Station before Mr. R. D. Hanlon, J.P. Frederick Unwin was fined'l7s 6d or three days' imprisonment for helpless drunkenness. ■

The directors of the Oamaru Woollen Factory Company have decided to recommend the shareholders to accept the offer of Messrs. Macky, Logan, and Caldwell, of Auckland and Wellington, for the purchase of the company's business as a going concern. It is understood that the offer is 15s per share cash with two preferential shares in the firm of Macky, Logan, and Caldwell,.bearing 6 per cent, cumulative interest, and that a meeting of shareholders will be held at an early date to consider the proposition. A boy named Jack Howe, seven arid a half years of age, whose parents reside at Armidale-street, Petone, was reported to the police.as missing on Simday. It appears that the boy made his way on to the ferry boat at the Fetone wharf on Sunday afternoon, and was carried to Wellington, where he was recognised by a, young man who took charge of^him and returned him to his home. Ey permission of the Admiral of the Fleet (Viscount Jellicoe). Captain Leggett, and officers of H.M.S. New Zealand, tho ship's orchestra will give a concert in the V.M.C.A., Willis-street, to-night at eight o'clock. A very attractive programme has been arranged. There is no charge for admission, arid the entertainment is open to tho public. i Messrs.' Williams' and Co., Ltd., will sell in the Auction Arcade, to-morrow at 2 p.m., furniture, piano, sowing machine, etc. . ■ Mr. tT. Manuel Kitto addressed a larsre audienco in the New Century Hall on Sunday night. His subject was, "Mars and its Inhabitants: What is Their. Religion?''