MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16664, 24 September 1914, Page 10

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and fined Charles Mack 40s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, on his fourth charge of drunkenness. James Ostler was remanded for a week on a charge that he had received £6 :1s Sd from Elizabeth Carson and others, and had fraudulently omitted to pay the same to his employer, - Frank Needham. He was admitted to bail in his own recognisance of £SO arid another of £SO. John Somerville, who was described as one of a trio who bad broken and entered tho boot-shop of J. N. Du Feu and Co., was remanded for a week on a charge of breaking and entering. Reginald Palmer, a very small boy, just out of the juvenile class, was fined 3s without costs for footpath cycling at New Brighton. George Aldridge, for a similar offence, was fined 7s and cost.

Ernest Adcock, a taxi-driver, pleaded not guilty to a charge of excessive speed round the corner of Colombo and Gloucester Streets, while tho theatre crowd was coming out. Tho Magistrate decided to convict him without penalty. Sidney O. Thompson pleaded not guilty to a charge that, on August 21, at New Brighton, he had cruelly illtreatcd a bay horse by working it with an inflamed and galled wither. After hearing evidence tho case was dismissed.

John Kelly was proceeded against by the Springs County Council under the Public Works Act for failing to grub gorso and broom on his land. The case was adjourned for two months to give defendant a chance to clear the land. _ ,

Walter Henry Cooper was proceeded against by tho Drainage Board for connecting the washhouse of a. house in Barbadoes Street with the sower without obtaining tho permission of tho Drainage Board. Defendant pleaded guilty,- and was fined 20s and costs.

LYTTELTON.

Captain R. Ilatchwell, J.P., and Mr W. 'C. Cleary, J.P., presided at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when James Tho man Patrick Quirk was charged with having tho previous evening assaulted John William Burlond, a sergeant in the Expeditionary Force. After hearing a- number of witnesses, whose statements wero. conflicting, the Bench dismissed the. case.