MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE. CIVIL AND BY-LAW CASH’S; COOK WHO MISSED HIS SHIF. Police coses at tho Magistrate’* Court were dealt with by Mr E. Passe, S.M., yesterday. “I have pleaded guilty, and there ia_ no need to waste time,”’ said Isadora" Jacobus, who appeared on Vis eecond offence of drunkenness and heard several old convictions- read to the bench. , A fine ef 10s was imposed, in default 48 hours in custody. NEGRO COOK IN TROUBJJE. ' Eddie French, 'a negro cook f rom the West Indies, answered a charge of desertion at Auckland from the s.s. Trelyon with an American accent and a plausible tale. He was also charged under the Im l igrants Restriction Act, with landing in the Dominion without permission. French said he accidentally missed his ship »t Auckland and came down here on the asHimption that ih_s wae tho beet place to secure employment on a vessel. f - _ \ For the department Mr E. T. W. MeLaurin said that defendant was liable ,Lo deportation or a fine of £IOO. . It was decided to hold accused in custody until to-morrow when he will be placed on the Marama, ami join the TVayon at Sydney. FIGHT IN CITY HOTEL. Talking about strikes in a legal sente leu to material blows in the bar of . a city hotel on Monday, and * result Joseph Daly and Harold I/iln, two seafaring men, were each fined £L Default was fixed at three days’ toprisomnent. CHARGE OF THEFT. A remand until thie moraine wan granted in the case of Francis Michael Gleeson, who was charged with the theft of SI, the'property of Jean Annett. Accused is represented by Mr R. R. Scott. iROKifTBY^LAWS OFFENDEEBS - PUNISHED. Mr; C. R. Orr-Walker presided the session of the court when offenders against the by-laws were dealt with. " For exceeding the speed limit on various parte of the Hutt Toad, the following fines were inflicted, costs being added in each case;—Alfred Brown, £3 10s: Vernon Oarmodp, £3 10s; Andrew Walter Fudge, £2; Julius Lutz, £2; John E. Morgan, £3: Frank Proctor, £3 10s; William Atkinson, £2' 10s; George W. Brian t. £2-Robert Corn all, £3; Ernest Andrew Clark, £2 ; Olive Bertrand Cottrell. £4\ Herbert Doherty. £1: Arthur Geauga, £8 Ids; James Joseph McCartney, £2; George Miles. £3 IQs. - ’ * For insufficient lighting of venaclee, the following-’' fines were imposed;— Francis Sydney Maclean. 10s; Manfice Monk. ISs; Harry Douglas Nattrase. Mfc . - For cutting corners or driving a* more than a walking pace *t interoeetions, the following were fined, wrUi costa; —Pleasence Bridger, £3 10s; William Richard Kenner, £4; Charles Fulton' Pattie. £3. For .failing to sound warnings when approsiching '.intersecting streets,_Kdmund Herbert 1 Strickland and William Taylor were each, fined £1 with - costa-. Thomas Frank Foley was fined £1 Ss with 7s costs, for leaving a car without having taken- precautions against its starting. _ Ernest Walker, for driving a car over tho prohibited area place, was ordered to pay c °™ amouxttins to 7p. 11. * For obstruction of the entrance ** » private hotel,. lan Dudley Holmm and Margaret Crawford were eadi fined 101 with costa: • , , A fide of .£1 and costs was imposed upon Hugh Montgomery for drntfq on the wrong side of the .” a ?r , For driving a trap on the lnotpatb, Hid: Hogan was ordered to pay tl all For > not complying with a (order, Elizaheth Green wsa fined*» with costs: . ’ ___ -M.tin A fine Of 10s was imposed upon Matte Panics Swanson for smpking m the Thorndou Baths. ' < j M ifc • Wandering’ stock cssm weredmta with as fiffiowa;—.£1 finfed- £1 5s and c«t»: SwU Be^Bl and costsf; Edgaf gP, SLSwr? John Hill, 7a costa; ifia and costs; Horace Pluannyr, /on William HhU- 80s and costa; Pktncf Twomoy, 10s send co6t»Overdue aicdhnts are coUected by.the Office, Union Bank Chambers. ton.—Advt ■■ •