MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17529, 12 July 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. Mr T. A. J 3. Bailey, S.M., presided at yesterday’s sitting of the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. •John Kelly, an elderly man, was charged with drunkenness, _ and also with breaches of his prohibition order. He pleaded guilty to the charges, although ho added that he knew nothing about the circumstances. He was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and fined £1 each for the other offences

Herbert David Jamieson, a- young man, was charged with drunkenness, and also with assaulting Agnes Datson. He pleaded guilty, but said that he knew nothing ghaut it. He had some teeth out, and took some brandy and port wine, and remembered nothing more He would like a prohibition order issued against him. Sub-In-spector Mullanv said that the accused came home drunk and assaulted _ his landlady, and when the police arrived two men were holding him down. The accused said that ho had been discharged from camp, but had been called up in the recent, ballot. He could not remember even being taken to the police station. Accused was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for the assault, and fined os for drunkenness.

Ernest Alexander Best, charged with failing to notify his change of address, as required by section 40 of the Military Service Act, pleaded guilty. Sub Inspector Mullanv said that the defendant moved from Sehvyn Street to Tuatn Street. He was a married man with three children. Accused said he did not think tiro notification of his change of address was urgent, and he had overlooked it. Mr Bailey ordered him to come tip for sentence when called upon. Convicted of riding bicycles on public footpaths, Norman Crowe, John Paten, Albert Lane. George Man toll. Andrew M’Entee, Henry Jennings, John Gallagher and Bernard Hnrnmersley were each lined 7s and costs. On a similar charge George Watts, John Moore, Valentine Fulford and Henry Broad were each convicted and discharged. ” Convicted of cycling after sunset without lights, the following were each fined 10s with costs :—Jantes Carter. William Sproston. Alfred Ross, AVnliam James Legge, Alexander M’Lean and George Witts. For a similar offence. Claude Lewis was convicted and discharged’. John Keith Oven, for driving over a street intersection in the city at an excessive speed, was fined 10s with costs.

LYTTELTON. Mr W. T. Lester, J.P., and Mr L. A. Stringer, J.P., presided at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Antonio Bozanti was charged with stealing coal valued at about two shillings, the property of the New Zealand Government. Constable Joyce stated that ho saw accused on the Lyttelton railway station in possession of, a bag of coal. Accused admitted to witness having taken the coal from tho railway yards without authority. Paul Eugene Bean, stationmaster at Lyttelton, stated that repeated warnings had been issued to workers through their respective unions that nothing must be taken away from the railway yards, or the wharf, even if the. article were of no practical value. Accused was fiued £l. in default seven days’ imnrLonment. Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., Cecil Stanley Barker was charged that on Jnne 25, being a person in lawful custody in Lyttelton Prison, he attempted to escape from the gaol. It was stated that accused _ had been caught, in the act of climbing the gaol wall. He was sentenced to seven days on bread and water, and ordered to forfeit, eight good conduct marks.

AMBER, LEY. Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., presided at tho Amberley Magistrate’s Court yesterday. James \V. Nixon was charged with exceeding the speed limit, at Waikari on June" 7. Defendant was not present. Evidence was given bv H. H. Holland, D. Loucey and Constable Packer. The information was dismissed, the Magistrate, stating that there was no evidence of identification or the car’s number. William Henry Marshall * (Mr Van Ascii) was charged with failing to comply with a maintenance order to support his wife. Counsel asked for either a variation or tho cancellation of the order, as defendant could not maintain tho order. Sergeant, Mackay, for the prosecution, stated that the arrears were £l7 16s Sd, arising out of a weekly order of 10s. Defendant in evidence stated that he was a casual worker and had paid £lO in support; of his wife before the order accumulated, and at present had some £l2 due to him. The Magistrate in giving judgment stated that, defendant had not tried to comply with the order and sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, the warrant to be suspended if defendant) paid off the arrears and complied with the order of 10s weekly. John Honeybono was charged with having cattle at large at Waikari and was fined 10s and costs. On a sccohd charge he was convicted and ordered to pay costs, W. H. Rhodes, for a similar offence, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. In the case G. A. Hare (Mr Van Asch) v. J. E. Watson, Mr Van A sell asked for an adjournment, as the matter had been practically settled with the exception of costs. An adjournment was granted until August S.