MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4595, 25 February 1902, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24. (Before Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M.) Three first-offenders were convicted /or drunkenness. A young man named William Collins pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in Lambton quay on Sunday night, and was convicted and ordered to pay 21s for medical attendance. John Lennox, a prohibited person, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, and was fined 40s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. Martha Munn took action against her husband, Thomas Munn, for intending to desert her. Defendant made no appearance. In answer to Mr Dalziel, plaintiff stated she had been ill-treated by her husband. He had stated that he would provoke her until she left him, had used threatening language, and had now packed his goods with the intention of leaving her. Defendant was ordered to pay 12s 6d a week, and to find security in the sum of £SO for due payment thereof. In Christopher Whyte v. Walter Whyte, an application was made by defendant to cancel or suspend an order made under the Destitute Persons Act. An order suspending payment was granted so long as complainant lived with defendant. Arrears to date were also cancelled. To provide for the maintenance of his wife, John Benjamin Alston was ordered to pay 13s a week, and solicitor’s fee 21s. Three neglected children, John, Arthur and Mary Ann O’Leary, residing with a habitual drunkard, came before the Court. The boys were committed to the Nelson Industrial School and the girl to St. Joseph’s Orphanage.