CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10598, 16 September 1896, Page 4

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, September 35.

(Before Messrs J. B. Thomson, A. Thomson, and

J. Waldie, J.P.'s.)

Drunkenness.—Pour first offenders were convicted and discharged. .

Breach of the Peace.—Mary M'Glashan was charged with having, on tha 11th inst.V it'i Moray, place, used behaviour wheraby a breacii of the peace was occasioned .—Accused pleaded guilty, but said she was not the cause of the disturbance.—Sergeant O'Neill stated that accused'and another woman named Anderson were found fighting in Mony place. The constable only succeeded in arresting one of them. It was difficult to say who was to blame, as they were both fighting, and what accused said might be tru«. -Constable Findlay deposed that it was Anderson who struck the fir.t blow.—The Bench considered that this statement bore out what accused said, and dismissed the csse.

PjtomßiT.'ON Orders.— Prohibition orders were granted for 12 months against John CTrquhart, Thomas Scott, and Alexander Thomson.

Uv-law Cases. —For allowing two horses to wander in the Triangle, Frederick Bennett was lined 2s Od, without costs.—For driving a horse and dray round'the corner of Moray place and George streat faster thau at a walking pace Andrew Smith was fined 2s (id, and costs. Defendant said that the horse took f right at some screaming from the occupants of a dray, and he couUl not hold it..—Arthur Browning, similarly charged, said he did not intend to go round the corner at all, but he got jammed byauother vehicle, and had to.— Fined 2a Bd, and cests. A boy named Thomas Reid tilcaded guilty to using a shanghai ou the Town Hek. — Case dismissed, the lad receiving a caution.