MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 32, 14 March 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

A gentleman of the historic name of Byron appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day charged with breaking the conditions of his prohibition order. This was his eighth breach, and Arthur Edwin, those were his first names, seemed to regard the order in the same light as one of those glass balls in a shooting gallery which are made but to be broken. Magistrate Bishop wisely left the matter of his punishment in the hands of the wife. Mrs Byron said that her husband had "broken up the home" and smashed all the bric-a-brae and china. She had given him chance after chance, and it was always the same. '< Well, what do you want me to do with him. He's qualified for Botoroa, and I'll send him there if you say so! " said Mr Bishop. "Please give me another chance, Nellie," wailed the accused: "I'll be a good boy to you. I'll join the Good Telnplars, I tell you straight I will. I don't like prison bars.'' This, statement was hardly necessary, as it was evident that his taste was for another kind of bar entirely. The prisoner kept up a constant wail of pleading with Maori tangi effects, and Nellie relented, consenting to allow her worse half to be ordered to come "up for sentence when called upon. "If you come up again," said MiBishop,' "I'll send you up for two years' without a doubt.''