MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2851, 20 June 1896, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning Margaret Robinson and Hannah McCarthy were sentenced by Mr J. C. Martin, S.M., to throe months' imprisonment with hard labour for habitual drunkenness. A youth named W. Williams was charged with having travelled on the train from Te Aro to Wellington without having paid his fare. # He was remanded for a week to allow enquiries to bo made into a statement made by the defendant that a non-transforable ticket for the Welling-ton-Hutt section which was in his possession was given to him by another lad. An order made against William Caston for the support of his children, who are in the Industrial School, was cancelled, owing to the man’s ill-health. William Thomas was charged with drunkenness, but was dismissed, and for assaulting Constable Eccles be was convicted and discharged. Honora Bassett, for using obscene language, was sent to gaol for It days. Alex. Smith, licensee of the Cricketers' Arras Hotel, Tory street, was charged with selling a pint of beer to William Thomas, the latter not being a bona fide lodger or traveller, and also with serving the man when the latter was drunk. After evidence was hoard, both charges dismissed. Margaret Sutherland was admitted to three months' probation on a charge of the theft of a watch and chain valued at .£3, the property of Louis Christeson. A lad named Percy Pickering was fined 5s and 7s costs for riding a bicycle on the footpath at Kaiwarra. At Mount Cook Police Station Elizabeth Barnes was fined 10s, or in default 43 hours imprisonment, for drunkenness.