MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5024, 23 July 1903, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. (Before Messrs Thomas Cwan and John Danks, J.P.’sJ Daniel Mahoney and George Pope were each fined sa, in default twentyfour hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness. John Griffiths, who was Convicted for drunkenness on Tuesday, and arrested again soon afterwards, was fined £l, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. John Quill was fined ss, with 7s costs for having left a horse and vehicle unattended in Donald McLean street on 6th inst. ’ Tho first information under the new city by-law frameu with the object of suppressing expectorating on tho footpaths was laid against a young man named Jas. Burgess. Tho police stated that tho defendant stood with his back against a shop in Lambton quay, smoking a cigar and expectorating on tho footpath. Tlie chairman of the Bench said he hoped this case would act as a deterrent. Tho Bench convicted and discharged the defendant with a caution. For having ridden bicycles after sunset without lights.' Chas. A. Richardson and Warwick Wilson were each fined ss, with 7s costs, and E. T. Gould, Alex. McDiarmid, Harold F. Johnston and Harry Colledge were each fined 10s, with 7s costs. Henry Wright, for whom Mr Von Haast appeared, took proceedings against J. F. W. Mills and T. J. Korr, under tho city, by-laws, for having permitted to be at largo in Mein street, Newtown, on tho morning of 4th inst. Mr Skorrott appoareef for, tho defondant Mills and Mr Kirkcaldie for Ken-. Henry Wright deposed that a man who had been seen driving Kerr’s vehicles took a horso out of a paddock on tho Town Bolt, and allowed it to wander in tho street, .where it nibbled witness’s hedge. About twenty minutes afterwards the man caught the horso, tied it to tho back of an express, and drove away. Kerr’s horses were a source of annoyance to witness and tho residents of Mein street. They were causing a depreciation in tho valno of property in tho neighbourhood and witness and a number of others had instructed Mr Bell to tako proceedings against tho defendant in the Supremo Court-. Mr Von Haast submitted'that Mills had been seen directing operations about Kerr’s yard. He was formerly an owner of the stables and tho onus of proof was now thrown on him to prove that he was not the owner of the stahlcs. Mr Skorrott said it would bo monstrous it tho Court were to bo used as a more engine for private malice and private persecution. Vhb Corporation bad its officers and it was proper to bring such complaints under their notice. This nrosccuticu,

by a private person who evidently had Hie lootings .ot iho utmost animosity against ti.u del umlauts, Simula not tie oacouragea. It iiuci neither been proved that Jxorr was tho owner oi tlio horso, nor that -Uiils hud anything to do with tlio business. Kerr was lined Mills was dismissed.