THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 118, 11 July 1911, Page 5

THE COURTS.

(Per Press Association.) Palmerston North, July 10. Arthur Harold Bunn, employed at the local office of Bell, Gully and Cooper, barristers and solicitors, was arrested to-day on two charges of theft of money from that firm. He was brought before the Magistrate’s Court and remanded till Monday, bail being fixed as follows Self £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each. It is understood that other charges are ponding. Wellington, July 10. Francis McFarland was fined 40s in the Magistrate’s Court for having permitted drunkenness on licensed promises, to wit. the Hotel Cecil, the Magistrate (Mr/Riddell) holding that although the man was not served with liquor by McFarland or tho barman, the mere fact of his being on licensed premises in a drunken condition was enough to warrant a conviction it it was proved that tho person in charge of the .bar had been careless. At the request of counsel for the defence, the fine was increased to £6, to enable an appeal to be made.