MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17936, 1 November 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH. Mr S. E). M'Carthy, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. William Frederick Stone was charged with having been drank and with having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. The accused pleaded guilty to both charges. SubInspector Mullany said that tbo accused had- been fined £5 at Lyttelton on the previous day for a breach of his order, and later in the day had been arrested in Christchurch on a ohargo of drunkenness. The accused asked for a chance, and promised that the offence would not occur again. The Magistrate decided to give aocused one more chance. He would bo convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, but any further breaches of the order would bo visited by n heavy penalty.

Charles William Wells, n lad just over sixteen years of age, was charged that on October 13, at Timaru, he stole a bicvclo valued at £6, the property of William G. Hawkey, and also that on October 17, at Christchurch, he stolo a bicycle valued at £'o, the property of Ada Sapsford. Accused pleaded guilty to both charges. Chief-Detective MTlveney said that the accused had been an inmate of the Weraroa Training Farm and had .been let out on license to stay with his grandmother at Timaru. After stealing, the bicycle at Timaru, the accused ro'do to Ashburton, where he disposed of the machine. Later ho came to Christchurch and stolo the second bicycle. He had been working in Christchurch for about a week oe a messenger boy. The accused was convicted and ordered to be sent back to the- Woraroa Training Farm. Judgment for the plaintiff by default, with costs, was given in each of the following cases: George Tayler and Co. r. James Douglas, £1 12s ; Christchurch Operative Bootmakers' Society v. F. Flovd, 18s 6d; William Clarke v. Daniel M'Clintock, £2 16s;, N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. Maurice O'Callaghan, £8 9s lOd; National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., v. S. Dickson Wilson. £l9l Os lOd; Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd., v. 0. W, Doncaster, £62 18s lid; same v. Clement B. Sorbin. £l6 15s. Jamesr Arthur Grange was ordered to pay forthwith to Loudrroy and Tulley a debt of 15s 6d, in default four days' imprisonment-