CITY POLIOS COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11922, 21 December 1900, Page 5

CITY POLIOS COURT.

Thursday, December 20. (Before Mr C. C.](>rijham, S.M.)

Drunkenness.—Annie .Whitely (110 previous convictions) was fined IDs or 14 clays' imprisonment ; a first offender was fined 7s, or 21 hours' in gaol; Thomas M'Lemmn was fined 10s, the alternative being 48 hours' imprisonment. Breach of %he Pence.—William Michael was charged with occasioning.a breach at the peace in Walker street on the .17th-inst.—Mr Hanlon appeared for accused.—The facts were that accused knocked a Chinaman's- hat off, and while he was stooping to pick it up he struck him ou the nose.—Evidence having been given for the prosecution, Mr Hanlon withdrew the plea of not guilty, and sa.id accused would admit the offence. The man was drunk at the time, and did not know what he was doing.—A fine of 60s and costs was inflicted.

Maintenance—George Bowdeu was charged with disobeying an order for the maintenance of his two children, who were inmates of the Industrial School.—He was ordered to pay 2s a week for the support of each child. Daniel O'Brien was charged with failing to provide maintenance for his son.—The aunt of the child, who had been keeping it for some time, said she was willing to adopt it if the father would bind himself not to take it away later on, but she understood that he intended to do that when tho child was grown up. She could not get him to come to any,arrangement.—His Worship made an order for the payment of the maximum amount prescribed by law 'for Hie maintenance of the boy—namely, 20s a week,— thinking by this means to induce the father to make some arrangement as to the child. Indigent Children.—Catherine Cotter was brought up under tho Industrial Schools Act, ■and was committed to the Industrial School, to lie brought on in the Church of England form of faith. The child was illegitimate.—His Worship said he would not make any order for maintenance in the meantime. Ellen Charlotte Scott, another illegitimate child, was also committed fo the school to be brought up in the AVesleyan form of faith.