CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16354, 10 April 1915, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Fbiday, APEIL '9. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M) ™;7>T U ?^, Dess -~ Jolm Matheson, chanred EX dru f k ? DneS3 > was fi ned 12s, in default 48 hours imprisonment, and was to pay the fee for the services of * who had been called in -^WilHam stJVttelrSS ? e ltnn Ur - ~ A J rth ! ur Fr anci a been SnW #""* «*«>, admitted having W,W / loto f Saviour while ®T' bu t denied a charge .of • A .witness stated that the awuscd haH vf^ arriving, there ho was motki . , ro of men who told him to beware T'tho offe ; Ld a r lcnt V' 23 £ possession. approched 0 ' bv M%ri hmS th ° house was a boat-hook at Finallv 0 hur '^l sector *Bn)ter!^^id ar tlwt C^hoa^'us^'^d mmm tions accused' would be months imprisonment on tho charge of obscenity. On the other count ho woufr be convicted and discharged Adjourned.—James Barclay (Mr Hanlonl was charged with having permuted drunkenness on licensed case was adjourned for a week, on the applicaa ?> c u°?? sc } for thq defendant. ,Jt plated . Pers °n--Donald Kirkwood W, t , Ir . wln J was charged with bavin" . boui found in two different hotels in the city while prohibited.-Mr Irwin said that the order had been issued at Roxburgh W°n 6 defendant lived, and he had lot ?f aware that it was operative in Dun- *' C &ander ® sai d that he saw 11 j emerge from, the European Hotel, and warned him that he could not enter an hotel in Dunedin, or anywhere in New Zealand, since he was prohibited in. Roxbuigh. Later the defendant was found in another hotel.-Tho Magistrate said that the defendant might .not have fully appreciated the .warning. He would bo convicted atusi * °° mo w «* ■—««a By-law Cases. Albert James Hamell was fined ss, with costs (7s), for having driven a motor car without a .light at night, and Henry Ansel Johnston was similarly dealt with for'having ridden an unlighted bicycle at mght ——For having allowed oattle to wander John Mason was fined ss, Nathaniel Campbell 20s, and Frederick Scanlon 10s with court costs (7s) in each case. ' Maintenance. — Charles Thomas was ordered to pa.v 3s a week towards the suoP ° l [ Sur ch ' ld . ln an Industrial School. | A Public Nuisance.—Henry Stokes, who did not appear, was charged with havinallowed offensive matter to Jie on his Section ac Jamqs street, Mornington.—A sanitary .inspector said that he had" inspected the premises, and found the section to be in a tny condition A shop which was built ontit had not been in use for some time In the backyard there was a collection of old kerosene tins, half full of rabbit bones, nsh bones, the liquid in which oysters were Kept, and various decaying substances. The tins were covered with old bags, also in a state of decomposition. In a barrel in a corner ri (hoyard were fowls' feathers and oyster shells, and the smell from tho collection was noticeable on the street A warning had produced no eli'ect, and tho present proceedings were taken out of solicitude for tho public health.—The Magistrate said that tho defendant was liable to a line of £20, and after tl|at to continuing fines of £5 a day till the rubbish was r <> moved. A fine of £3, with costs (7s), would be inflicted.