MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15210, 22 January 1910, Page 7

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, January 21. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) 1 Drunkenness. —One first offender for drunkenness, who pleaded not guilty, was finod 10s and costs, in default ■ forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, and : another was convicted and discharged, j Prohibition Orders Broken.— -John : Albert was convicted and discharged | for drunkenness and on a charge of Jg having obtained liquor during the currency of a prohibition order ho was ordered to pay 30s 6d medical expenses, in default seven days’ imprisonment.— Harry Smith was fined 20s and costs, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for a similar offence. ’P Remanded. — Howe 'Malone, was remanded until the k wing day on a lld charge of having bem. drunk while in ’or charge of a horse and cart, so, ’Footpath Cycling. —Sydney Bench, ; no Henry Maindonald, Henry Atkinson and Alfred Bayliss were each fined 7s ier and costs for having ridden bicycles on “ footpaths, and Dorothy Piper, aged Q d sixteen years, for a similar breach of re, the by-laws, was convicted and dis!r ‘ charged. , No Light at Night.— George J'nzzell, | S. C. Stubberfield, Frank A. Chidgey i (Mr Taylor), Andrew Leslie, David | Stock and Eugene Frawley were each fined 10s and “costs for having ridden bicycles without lights attached at It night. Frawley was fined a further 10s ” and costs for having given the arrest--10 ing constable a- false name.—James _ Amos, who had also failed to use a lamp, was fined 5s and costs, and Archibald Braid was cautioned and discharged, o' Railway Regulations.— E. S. Lut.troll (Mr Cassidy) admitted having driven a motor-car over the Lincoln Road railway crossing when a train was j’ approaching within half a mile. Mr ’ Cassidy said that defendant had mis-

taken the crossing-keepers signal. He was fined 10s and costs. A Wandering Horse. —For having allowed his liorso to wander Alfred Buxton was fined os and costs. Treasurer’s Misappropriations. Ernest John Heale (Mr Cassidy) admitted having misappropriated £6B 14s Bthe property of the Star of Linwood Oddfellows’ lx>dge, and bo was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The evidence led by the police disclosed the fact that Heale had been' treasurer to the lodge and had not paid over certain sunm to other lodges. Bail was allowed, the accused in £75 and one surety of £75 or two of £37 10s.