MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8794, 25 July 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

SOME BY-LAW CASES. Yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. For insobriety, Kate Brady, with four previous convictions, was sent to gaol for one month, and a prohibition order was issued against her for twelve months. ■ ‘ ; For breaches of the vehicular bylaws, fines of 6s, with court costs 7s, were Imposed upon the.following.persons: —Arthur Alexander, Edwin Barnes, Fred Foster,, Henry Grell, Charles Daniel .Hargreaves, John Kelly, Bert Pettman,, .Archie .Still, Leonard Walter Tattle, and Frank Wilson; default .in each case was fixed at forty-eight hours’ detention. . : Maude Turnbull, for ; allowing a horse to wander in Tory .street, was fined. 6s, with court costs 7s. For failing to send his child to school, Henry Evans was fined ss, with court costs 7s. - ■ • Joseph Mitchell pleaded not. ghilty to t a charge of negligently driving a dray in Courtenay place. After hearing the evidence, His Worsh.p'entercd a conviction, fining defendant ss, with costs 7s. '!} Maurice Hosier, for allowing three nows to wander at island Bay, . was fined ss, and -costs 7s. A similar penalty was imposed on a further charge of allowing a hors© to be at large. •Tames Carrol was lined £2, with court costs 9s, and solicitor's fee 10s tid, for working a horse in on unfit condition. The defence was that tho horse was suffering, not from open sores, as alleged for the prosecution, but merely froth “heat boils.” Mr H. L. Griffiths .prosecuted .for the Society for the-Prevention of Orueltj to hnimals; and Mr W. Perry. detended.