POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13147, 9 April 1906, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

APPLICATION fop maintenance ORDEP DISMISSED. At tlio Police Court on Saturday morning Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., gavo his reserved 1 decision in tho case in which Jano F'orence Mad dock applied to have a maintenance oltier issued against her husband, Chas. W m. Maddock. Mr. Kettle said it. was not a -asc where f. r > Court should compel the husband to maintain his wife. The complainant got tired of her married life, ;«r I returned to her mother, who encouraged her to do so. Her husband wanted her to go back to him, and had done all he could tr make her contented with her lot. 11 c had never failed to support her, and it was her duty to return to him. Tho application was dismissed. MISCELLANEOUS. \ nolourei! man named Daniels pleaded m.'ihv to being found on the licensed prei,,,.,.; „f the Delta Hotel, Ngariiawalna duiin>' ihe currency of a. prohibition order. The defendant informed the magistrate that In entered the premises to look tor a man wlk Inn' l his watch, which ho (the man) pr0,.i0.-ed ~io.-ed piirehasint; for £2. Daniels was convicted and discharged, and ordered to come u|- foi /.entenee when called upon. A Chinaman named Wong Nan, charged with .mlawfully deserting H.M.c.s. Iris on February 5, was ordered to bo put on board the fteamo. again. John Cartwright Hill pleaded guilty to committing an indecent act in Victoriastreet on Friday night, and was sentenced to seven (lavs' imprisonment. (ioorgo Roberts and l'rank Hill, who were, charged with drunkenness, and remanded to. medical • treatment, wers convicted and discharged op paying costs. Three first offenders wero each fined ss, and costs ?.s £>d, for drunkenness. A prohibition order was issued againsi one of them for 12 months.