MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13890, 26 October 1905, Page 5

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, October 25. (Before Mr V.. G. Day. S.M.) ■ Drunkenness.—William Warner and Mary Joyce were each fined £5, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. Remanded.—Arthur Woolston, alias Sloan, aged twenty, appeared on three charges of falsa pretences, to which he pleaded guilty. They were: Obtaining from Mary Leach Bowman one suit of clothes and other articles, valued at £6, by falsely representing that he was authorised to obtain credit for the articles; obtaining ono week’s board and lodging, valued at 18s, from Alary Ann Carpenter, and £2 from William Thomas Hoads, on the representation that he had £35 in the Dunedin Savings Bank, and that ho was canployed by , Messrs Jameson and Son, builders. Chief-Detective Cbrystal stated that accused was a recent arrival from England, and had just come to Christchurch from Dunedin. He was remanded till Friday pending a report from Dunedin concerning him.. Cruelty to Horses.—William Inkster pleaded guilty to -having _ cruelly illtreated a horse by working it while suffering from shoulder sores. He explained that the horse had been supplied to him by his employers, Messrs Pitcaithly and Go. Ho was fined £2 and costs.—Walter Allan pleaded not guilty to a similar charge. He alleged that the sores had been caused while driving into town from Kaiapoi. He had had to drive the horse back to Kaiapoi. He was fined £2 and costs. By-law Cases. —Charles Gross (Mr Cassidy) pleaded not 'guilty to charges of having driven on the wrong side of the street and at other than a walking pace across the intersection of Colombo and Armagh Streets. From the evidence it appeared that although Cross had driven over the crossing at a canter he had done so to avert an accident, being blocked between another cart and an approaching tramcar. The defendant said that be was driving north towards Cook and Ross’s corner with a restive mare in a rather heavy gig. He could not pull the horse up as the humming of the electric wires ha’d frightened it. Both informations were dismissed. —Henry Lough arid George M’Cor mac - were each fined 5s and costs for allowing horses to wander on Canal Reserve.—Joseph Mnrphy , was fined 10s and costs for .driving at other than a walking pace across the intersection of High, "Hereford and Colombo ■■Streets.—Lionel Knight, • Elsie Knight and Robert M’Millan were each fined 5s and costs for broaches of the’ bicycle by-laws.—James Ooxhead was fined £l' and costs for driving for hire without being licensed by the City Council-. ' . , Costly Advertisement.—John Wilson was fined 10s and costs on two ohargoof having displayed goods for sale on the public footpath in front of his shop, thereby causing obstruction. Committed for Trial.—John Burnr (Mr Cassidy) was committed for trial on a charge of having committed n grossly ifideoent act .at his shop at the corner of Crescent and School Roads, St Albans.

LYTTELTON. Wednesday, October 25. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness. —Farquhar M'Donald, who had been arrested for drunkenness on Norwich Quay on Tuo&day ; was fined ] Ob, with forty-eight hours’ imprisonment in default of payment. Case Adjourned.—Francis Mapple, on remand, was charged with having, on Saturday last, assaulted William John Putnam. The case was adjourned to November 1, on the application of counsel concerned. Civil Oases.—Judgment was given for the plaintiffs by default in the following cases:—W. Hjldyard v. J. R. Clow, claim £5 3s; Ann Jams Vidulich v, John Vance, claim 10s 4d.