MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 127, 4 July 1914, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.), DBUNKENNESS. Owen Callan, who did not appear, was charged with drunkenness. "He should be prohibited," said the Magistrate, remarking that accused's-, wife had been, to see, him on the mattef£. ; ''There seems torce some trouble' Between them," Wid Sub-Inspeetbr M'Kinnon. '

The Magistrate: "She will not do it. She is afraid." - ■ :

A penalty of 10/- or 48 hours' imprisonment was imposed, Mr Bishop reic.arkiug that the man appeared to have no control over himself. WANTING A WASH. James Bunting, an old man, looking the worse for wear, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, hav- - 'irg insufficient lawful means of support. - "He looks as if he wants a wash more than anything," observed the Magistrate. Sub-Inspeetor M 'Kinnon said the man had been, an inmate of the Charitable Aid Home. He had, gone to the Police Station on the previous evening and stated that the authorities at the home had refused to let Mm in. "What have you got to live on?'* asked the Magistrate. / '' I have been living on charitable aid for some time," said prisoner.; "They - refused to have me at the last. I haye " had no dinner for the last three days," Police evidence was to the effect that the man was a general loafer about the> tcwn. The authorities at the home re- ■ fused to let him in because of"his drunkenness and his refusal to obey-the rules. He was sentenced to' three month* * imprisonment. A DOMAIN kOW. Catherine Andrews, who on a previous occasion had been given chance on-a charge of soliciting on streets, aiid who had broken thd terms on which this leniency was extended, was placed in the dock for sentence. Sub-Inspector M'Kinnon explained. that since she had appeared on the charge mentioned site and another woman had been disorderly, in the '""' where they had caused almost.a riot. "What have you to say I" asked Mr ' Bishop of the accused. "I.gave you a ' chance, why did you not take it?" Accused: "I had just come from. *• the hospital and sat down for a few n.inutes." A constable gave evidence that the accused and the other woman' were pulling up the flowers. "Exeuse me, constable," said the accused, interrupting, *' do not tell lies.' y "Oh, do not talk like that," said the* Magistrate. '' The constable is not' here to tell lies."

Sub-Inspector M'Kinnon said the accused had refused to go to the Salvation Army Home when she Avas asked to go. -

"Are you willing to go to the Salvation Army Home?" asked.Mr Bishop. Accused: '' Yes, sir.'' Mr Bishop: " Very well, I will order you to come up for sentence when called, upon on condition you go to the Salvation Army Home for three months. "If she came before him again, he added, she would not receive the same leniency. Myra Donaldson, who had been found drunk oh Thursday, and who had beeu given another chance, again appeared." "I am very sorry," she said. "Oh, yes," replied Mr Bishop. women always are when you are before me. When you are outside it is quite another matter."

She was sentenced to three "months"' imprisonment.