MAGISTERIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4765, 4 October 1893, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

— * ■••■-. I. CHRISTCHURCH. -v This Day. (Before E. Beetham, Esq., E.M., and E. Carry, Esq.) Detjkkhnhess. — Patrick Faull was fined . 20a and costs, or in default ninety-sir Jurors* •'-; imprisonment, i Amksbd Pbbjtxby. — William Noble | was charged with committing perjury at -| Wellington. Inspector Brohain stated ;| that the accused was arrested by Chief f Detective O'Connor on boaid thaTalune. :- at Lyttelton on Taeßday. He waa travel- ; Hag under the name of Robinson. The Bench remanded him to Wellington. LiECKNT.--Jameß Alex. M'Dermott, ■ 'aged fourteen years, and John Laurence, M'Dermott were charged with stealing, ott ' Oct. 4, fourteen pairs of braces, Wo boxes . of lollies, one boy's jacket, one packet of candles, three plugs of tobacco, and two boxes of matohes, all of the. value of £1, the property of the Working Men's Co-operative. Association.. ; The younger boy was allowed to go; the ' elder boy admitted the charge. The father of the boys stated that he sent them* to school on Tuesday morning, but they had apparently wandered aw ay and got into*. ; mißohief. They did not return in tha evening, and he had not Been them. till that morning. Hia Worship said theelder boy had been allowed to go astray,' and the father had evidently been unfit to '.;•■; take charge of him. In answer to hi& , Worship, Inspector Broham said it was entirely owing to the father's negligence s that the boys had got into trouble. The ■ elder boy was ordered to be Bent to the Buraham Industrial School until he .■■ attained the age of fifteen years. The father was ordered to contribute 8s a week towards his son's support. Dogs in the P^jme; — Biohard Guise, S» Walton, and Harry Goldsmith were each fined sb, and costs 7b, for allowing dogs to follow them within the limits of Saglcy Park. , Miscellaneous* — Peter Tod -was fined 10s and costs 7b for leaving a horse and ; cart unattended on the Lincoln xoad.— W. J. Hoddinoit was fined Is* without coßts, for trespaEsiug on the land of John ■ Odering,. for whom Mr Croaowell appeared. Maintenance. — Joseph Ijoader was charged with baing JE7 5s in arrears on an order of the Court compelling him to contribute 25s & week towards tho support •- ofi his wife, Laura Loader,, and her five . : children. Mr Creaswell appeared for complainant, and Me Beaifcie for defendant, .; 1 who admitted the arrears. The case was * adjourned for a week to enable defendant ; to maka Borne attempt to pay off tha arrears.