MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16602, 14 July 1914, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, Judy 13. (Before Mr 11. W.' Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness. Four first offenders, one a woman, were each fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, on a charge of drunkenness.—M.ark Bayliss, a second offender, was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.—John Cochrane, charged with drunkenness and with procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, denied the charge of drunkenness but admitted procuring two shillings’worth of dry gin, because lie bad heartburn. After hearing the police evidence the Magistrate inflicted a line of 20s, in default one month’s imprisonment, on the charge pf a breach of the order,' and entered a conviction on the charge of drunkenness. Vagrancy.— John Fleming, alias Finlay, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, in that lie had insufficient lawful means of support. Accused pleaded guilty, and said he had .lust come out of gaol, after serving fourteen days. Mr Bishop said accused had done a lot more than fourteen days in his •time, and sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, adding that it was shameful that an able-bodied man should beg in the streets. Diuxk and Complications. —John Pearson was charged with drunkenness and with assaulting Reginald Mackie, aged fifteen, in Fitzgerald Avenue on Saturday. Die accused refused to plead until he knew the verdict of Dr Irving, who had been called to the watchhouse at his request on arrest. Sub-Inspector M'Kinnon said the doctor came two and a quarter hours after accused’s arrest. Accused was not then drunk, but the doctor said ho looked, as if he had been drinking. Accused said he would plead guilty to the charge. The Sublaspector proceeded to give particulars of the charge of assault. The accused had blamed Mackie for interfering with oysters in his cart. Mackie denied tho accusation, but accused struck him violently in the face. Accused, in reply to this charge, said that_ ho only pushed tho boy. The Magistrate, after referring to accused’s record, sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Civil Cases. —Tn each of the following cases • judgment with costs was entered for the plaintiff by default!—G. B. Ritohio v. John W. Wilson. £4B Is 3d; W. Strange and Co., Ltd. v. Andrew Caldwell, £4 4s 6d; W. A. Blaekmoro v. M’Leod Bros, £l9 17s lOd; A. G. Talbot v. Matthew Hamilton. £1 Gs; Christchurch Gas Company, Ltd. v. A. W. Beaumont, £3 17s 2d; C. E. Andrews v. Albert E. Blackler, £2 15s; Alexander C. Wilson v. Joseph Henry Elstob. £1 12s 3d.; Large and Allen v. William Patrick, 7s 6d; W. Strange and Co., Ltd. v. George Dore, £3 2s, 6d; Saville and Company v. M. Goss, £2 10s; same v. William Fallocn, £3 6s; John William DoJlan v. Harold Bowen, £1 Bs. RANCIORA. Monday, Jilt 13. (Before Mr E. R. Good, J.P., and Mr C. I. Jennings. J'.P.) Drunkenness.—A first offender, who was removed from a train on Saturday morning helplessly drunk, and who had been locked up for forty-eight hours, was convicted and discharged: Absconder — A Burnham absconder was recommitted to Burnham. On a charge of having stolen a bicycle, valued at £5, from W. Bunting, Wcodend, he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.