MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15041, 8 July 1909, Page 5

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, Jilt 7

(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) Drunkenness. —Two first offenders were each fined ss, in default twentyfour hours' imprisonment. Mary Baines was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness., and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge of procuring liquor while the subject of a prohibition order.

Obsome Language and Imtortdning. —Amelia Cook (Mr Leathern) pleaded not guilty to charges of having used obscene language and importuning. The. defendant, against whom there were nine convictions since 1883, vigorously protested her innocence. His "Worship convicted the defendant,, and sentenced her to imprisonment for one month for importuning, and f or' two months on the charge of having used obscene language, the sentences to run concurrently.

Wilful Damage.—Harold Hayes and Francis V. M'Keown were charged with having destroyed a picket fence, value £1 ssj the property of the New Zealand Government. Hayes pleaded guilty and M'Keown not guilty. Evidence in support of the charge was given by Constable Hammond and the Inspector of Public "Works. Hayes stated that he alone pulled tho fenco down, and that M'Keown had nothing to do with it. Tho charge against M'Keown was dismissed, and Hayes was convicted and ordered to pay £l, the estimated value of tho fence destroyed. bV-law Cases. —James M'Fall, -Tocoph Wardoll, John W. Valentine,

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Charles Ayling and Elsie Owen were charged with having ridden bicycles on footways and pleaded in defence that' the roads were in a very bad condition and impassable for bicycles. His Worship entered a conviction in each case, remarking that this was not to be accepted as a precedent for riding on tho footpaths. -- Cecil Bonnington (Mr Hunt), for having ridden a motor-cycle on a footpath, was fined 10s and costs, and Edward M'lntyre, convicted of a similu.r offence, was fined 5s and costs. For having left a horee and trap unattended in Oxford Terrace, Lewis H. Wilson was fined 10s and costs.—Robert Hart, was charged with having on June 20, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 0.30 p.m., driven two drays through the. city, which, owing to their loading, were unable to travel at a faster pace than five miles per hour. He admitted the offence, and pleaded ignorance of the by-law. Sub-inspector M'Grath said that tho case had been brought in order to warn people that it was an offence to take heavy traffic through the city streets. His Worship convicted and discharged the defendant.

Truanctv—Joseph Ayers was fined 4s on each of two charges, and Alexander Black was fined a similar amount, on one charge of having failed to send children to school.