MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10527, 4 December 1916, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

BA I.M F.RSTON- ■MOXDA V. (IVlVue Mr J. W- Poynlon. S.M.) IXSOBRIETV. Three first offenders were convicted and fined 10s each. BREAKING A WINDOW. ,!;:s. Mitchell, stableman, pleaded not guilty to wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at £4 13s 4d, the properly e.l f Middleton. . . f Serge, ll.'inv said that, on the night ol October 23 defendant was in Main street West. Two other gentlemen were standing in the street, and delendatn approached them ill a lighting altitude and hit out at vlioni. They stepped aside, and defendant''s list went, through the window. Arthur Williams, one of the men defendant attempted to assault, gave evidence in support of the Sergeant’s siatemcnt, but said lie could not identify delendanf as the man. , , . , , In reply io the Bench, deter,.lant aid he was not sure w hen her he was I here or not at tin* time ot the occurrence. Tin* case was dismissed. DLST CUBING A MEETING, Two youths named Harold Nelson and Percy Voyce were charged with di.-tnrbing a congregation assembled for public worship. '’Both pleaded guilty. Sergeant. Henry prosecuted, and said the facts were that (he Plymouth Brethren were, holding a meeting in the Square last .Monday evening. 'There were a number of people standing round, and among them were the defendants, who continually encored and clapped after each speaker had spoken, thereby disturbing the meeting. A good deal of this son of filing had been going on of late, and the defendants should be made an example of. . In convicting and discharging the defendants. Ills Worship said it was a wrong tiling to disturb people in tin’s way. It the defendants did not like the meting they should keep away. BY-LAW CASES. David Thompson, who left a horse and cart unattended in a public .street, was convicted and fined 5s and costs. Rasmus P. Jensen, who left a motor car in Broad street without a light attached, was lined IDs and 2s costs. Claude Allen pleaded guilty to riding a motor bicycle round a corner at- a speed exceeding a walking pace, and was fined 10s, with 2s costs. 0. Lawric, who pleaded not; guilty, was convicted and discharged for having no 1 lights attached to hi- vehicle when in a public place.