MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12729, 12 April 1904, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

MONDAY, April 11. (Before Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M.) Prank Freter was convicted of assaulting Frederick Prewett at Clive, and with having used indecent language on the same occasion. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Murray, Roberts and Co. were charged with having on December 23rd, 1903, imported 60 kegs of blasting powder into the colony without furnishing the Inspector of Explosives in Wellington, the port of arrival, with the prescribed importation notice. Mr P. 8. McLean, who appeared for the defendants, said the offence had been committed in ignorance. The Napier branch of the defendants’ business had not previously received a direct shipment of explosives, the importations having been always obtained through the head office in Wellington. The local manager had been unaware of the regulation, the notice sent by the department drawing attention to it having been sent to the Wellington office and not forwarded on to the Napier office. Mr Cornford said he had been instructed by the department to have full publicity given to the case in order to prevent further breaches of the Act. His Worship said there was no reason to suppose that the breach was a wilful one, and under all the circumstances a small penalty would be sufficient. The defendants would be fined £2. with costs £1 Bs.

John Young was convicted of being the owner of a dangerous dog, and ordered to pay 9s costs. James Samuel Chappel, a cabman, was fined ss, with costs 7s, for having refused a fare while plying for hire.

Leonard Charles Simpson admitted having supplied liquor to a Maori woman, and was fined £2, with costs 9s. Mary McCarthy was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for stealing various articles, the property of Maud Christian.

Four young men were charged with being disorderly while drunk at Clive, and were cautioned.

Campbell Wylie, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, was charged with (1) selling liquor to James Burt, a person already in a state of intoxication, and (2) with permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises. The defendant pleaded not guilty on each charge, and Mr Cresswell appeared on his behalf. Inspector Macdonell conducted the prosecution, and, in opening, said the case had arisen out of one of alleged theft in. the defendant’s hotel. The case was not finished when the court rose for the day. Four boys named William Edward Fitzgerald, Charles George Knock, Ernest George Wiig. and John Campbell were charged with stealing a quantity of fruit from the shed oi a Chinaman. Wiig and Campbell were discharged with a caution. Knock was discharged on his father’s undertaking to punish him, and Fitzgerald was remanded till this morning for the attendance of his parents.