THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 12982, 19 June 1908, Page 5

THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

CITY POLTCE COURT. {Before H. Y. Widdoweon, Esq., S.M.) Drunkenness. David Henderson, charged with being drank on June 18, and who had been previously convicted within the last six months, was fined 10s or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Arthur William Valentine, who had been remanded for medical treatment, agreed to take out a prohibition order against himself, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs (£1 2s 6d). He had been previously sentenced to three months for attempted suicide. Maintenance.—James Henry Wilson, of Roslyn, a married man, summoned to appear at Christ-church on a change of failure to pay arrears (425) for the maintenance of his sister at Sunnyside Mental Hospital, made application "to have his •vidence token.—-Defendant said that when he got the notice to pay,2s 6d a week he was not in a position to pay. He wa.s ible to do it when he was single, but since he had been married he had found it impossible to do it. He was a journeyman plasterer, earning £3 6s a week, but his average weekly wage would be from £2 5s to £2 10s._ He had a house valued at £425, on which there was a mortgage of £3OO at 5 per cent. For the last seven months he had done nothing at plastering, having been engaged as a canvasser for Dimond and Hart, photo enlargers.—Having gone into details concerning defendant's expenses, Hi 6 Worship said he could not say what would be the decision of the magistrate at, Christchurch, but it seemed that defendant had ample margin to pay the arrears.