POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15449, 5 November 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

Convicted of insobriety, in the Police Court yesterday, one first offender was fined 5s by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M. Another first offending inebriate, who was not present to answer the charge, was fined the amount of his bail—£l.

The use of threatening behaviour in Customs Street resulted' in Thomas Kelly being fined £1, or three 'days' imprisonment in default. Tho disturbance, said the sub-inspector, was caused by an ordinary street fight.

John Parker, who had been previously convicted of assaulting and resisting a police constable, was brought up for sentence. He was ordered to pay 52: expenses, and to enter into a bond that lie will keep the peace for the next 12 mcnths.

Because lie drove his horse round tie corner of Pitt Street and Karangahapa Road at more than a walking pace, ana not as near to the left hand side as practicable, Henry Cooper, who pleaded that he was fresh from the country and did not know the city by-laws, wa& ordered to pay 7s costs.

A remand for another eight days, His Worship intimating that this would be the last adjournment, unless very special reasons wero advanced, was granted in the case of John Bowler and Herbert. Garfield Currie, who wero charged with breaking and entering the house of C. E. Major at Kawau Island during the month of June last.

Alleged to have stolen a gold watch and chain valued at £45 from the person of John Henry Cartwright, a man named William Frederick Clark was remanded until Friday next. William Albert Maxwell was fined £2 for entering an hotel during the currency of his prohibition order. He was given three weeks in which to pay the money, the alternative being fixed at a week's imprisonment.

Arrested on a charge of having failed to provide his wife with adequate maintenance, Charles James Stevens was remanded for a week, bail being allowed in one surety of £50.