MAGISTRATE'S COURT

North Otago Times, 13 January 1906, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

v'V:v:yv. : ;'• ~Yetitcrday.^t:.'■'. ■.,':.-' : ' •:%;' : -. ■ ([DctoreiMijot:KcdUclf,-rS;M:j • -v : :-. 'A -.first. 'offender■'.'.was .charged ■' witlr drunkoniicss •• oh: ■ tho" previous'' da')',- and having ;])lead.cd .Ruilty, was discharged! • : h: Michael Mlaughlin,; 'a person [against ■ | whom' a prohibition order is in force, was [charged.with• entering'licensed premises, the, .Criterion; Hotel, during-'tho currency iof tho order. Ho pleaded -guilty,/and was fined.£2, atul costsl4s. . '■■':■'■'.■ '—Bylaw Cases.—. Alexander Lnwson was charged with riding a bicycle in-Oamaru on tljo 3th' inst. without a light. ; Sergeant King said this was the first information under the new bylaws, and he did.not ask for a heavy penalty, hut in the,future he would press for substantial fines. ,

Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was fined 5s and costs 7s.'

The Magistrate, said the penalty was only a light one, which would be increased if the olfenee was repealed Alfred Clark, Hugh Glass, • Robert Young, Sydney Smith, John Bishop, John Main, and Charles Orr were' all similarly charged, pleaded guilty, and were fined similar amounts';- Isaac Underwood was charged with tho same ofienco on the information of the Inspector of Nuisances, ami lie was also fined 5s and 7s costs,

_' Andrew Scoullar was charged on the information of the Inspector of Nuisances, with leaving blocks of stone on the street in Aln street without a light. The Inspector asked for only a light penalty. Defendant -pleaded-guilty and was fined as and 7s costs. Michael Doche.rty was charged with a ' similar offence, ■ and pleaded guilty, and was fined the same amount. Walter Hossack was charged with leaving a wheelbarrow on a footpath in Thames street at night. He also plead ; guilty. The Inspector said there was other.impedimenta on the street. The otee was a ,vorse one than the others. Ihc Magistrate remarked on the extraordinary vitality of a wheelbarrow at light, Which had a capacity for running after one in a quite remarkable manner. A line of 10s was inflicted and 7s costs -Thcft.■Eito»rd j. Uciil was charged with the theft.of the sum of 4s, the properly of the .Australasian Temperance and iTcneral Mutual Life Society, which amount the accused had received from one H G. Glass. The same accused was similarly charged in respect of a sum of 3s paid by one - Cairns, the sum of Ss paidjy Annie Damlic; and the sum of m paid.by one - Bailev. The last case was taken first, and 'the accused pleaded guilty, .Sergeant King said the accused had been receiving money for the Society named, and had failed to account for amounts totalling m to the Ist January. On the discovery of the offence the accused was interviewed, and was told »« 1 ?? ,d havc to fiml tllc money. Alter that he came to Oamaru again and collected some more money, which he had-not accounted for, The Society had not wished to press the matter harshly. George H. Watson, the manager for the Society, gave evidence as to the facts, after which the accused was remanded till Tuesday for the Probation Officer's report: