MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 114, 19 June 1914, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before M. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two first offending inebriates were dealt with. One of them was fined 10/for having been drunk on the railway station, and the other was fined 5/- and warned that if he came up again he would be sent to Eotoroa. ALLEGED BIGAMY. Helen Hawthorne was charged that she did commit bigamy in that she went through the form of marriage with George Lake on November 21, 1913, at Christchurch. Mr Leathern appeared for accused, who was remanded for a week. Bail was allowed in one surety of £IOO. INFORMATION DISMISSED.

A man named William Mathews, for whom Mr Cunningham appeared, was charged with having procured liquor for Charles Henry M'Causland, knowing him to be prohibited. M 'Causland, who was the chief witness for the police, was stone deaf, and all questions put to him had to be written down. The answering of about a dozen short questions occupied about twenty minutes. M'Causland said that Mathews had got a bottle of whisky for him at the Leeston Hotel. The defence was that Mathews had not received any money from M'Causland, and although he had gone to the hotel he had refused to get drink for him. After hearing lengthy evidence the information was dismissed, the Magistrate saying that there was insufficient corroborative evidence. REMANDED. M'Causland was charged on three counts with breaking the conditions of his prohibition order. "He says he can hear now," said Sergeant Jackson triumphantly, and accused was taken out of the dock. "Can you hear me?" asked the SubInspector. "I'm stone deaf," said accused, and again a pad and pencil had to be brought out. Finally he was remanded for a week on a £5 bail, so that he might go to the hospital for treatment. BY-LAW CASES. Joseph Williams and Tom Irving, for cycling on the footpath, were fined 7/with costs. For cycling without a light, Percy Mathieson was fined 10/- with costs. Harry Mather, who allowed his horse to wander, was fined 5/- with costs. Walter Watson, who had no light on his side car, was fined 10/- with costs. Colin Campbell and Cecil Burn were each fined 10/- with costs for exceeding the speed limit on a crossing. Samuel Dengard, for driving a motor car without a tail light, was fined 5/- with costs. DEFENCE PROSECUTIONS. For failing to render personal service, Territorials were fined as follow:—Chas. Calvert, 20/- and costs; John Ford, 40/- and costs; James Salt, 40/- and costs; Fred Sehaffer, 60/- and costs; Frederick Turner, 40/- and costs.

LYTTELTON. (Before Mr J. R. Webb, J.P.)

At the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court this morning Walter llamnion, who was remanded from last Friday on a charge of stealing various articles from Thomas Wilson, valued at £Li 2/:.!, ou board the steamer Rotorua at Lyttelton, on June ]O, was, on the application of Mr Beswick, further remanded till next Friday. Bail was granted as before.