POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11507, 1 October 1915, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S CASES. (Bofnro Mr T. A. H. "Bailey, S.M.) DIIUNK EN NESS. A mala first offender for drunkenness, who consented to a prohibition order, was convicted and discharged. Edward Mills, a. .second offender lor drunkenness, was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. MarjJiret -Powell lappo-ared on remand, charged with having been drunk in Gibbons Street on September 22. Slip was convicted and ordered to pay cost's 18s. THEFT. Thomas -Tames, a youth seventeen years of age. v.as charged with the theft of a lady's jjjolil watch, value £'S, and Us 6d in money, the property of George Wbitelaw. Accused pleaded guilty. The jVfagistrato convicted him and ordf-red him to be returned to the Burnbam Industrial School. BEGGING ALMS. Francis M'Cluskey, a young maai, pleaded guilty to a charge that- he watf an idle and disorderly person, in that on September 30 he did beg alms in Oxford Terrace. Ho was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. BY-LAWS. For cycling on the footpath in Durham Street, Sydenham, Frank Bateman was fined 20s and coss. For cycling on the footpath, George ancf Richard Latham were each fined 10.? and costs. Sidney Smith was fined 5s and co : -ts for allowing a horse to wander. Hanna Hancock was charged with tethering two cows on the road and with permitting cows to wander. She was convicted and discharged on the first charge and lined 5s on tho second. For failing to close their shops at the proper time, J. Harris was fined 10.5 and costs, and 11. T. Jenkins and T. H. Strahan and Son each Is. without costs. MAINTENANCE. Lottie, Dorothy Nctinan (Mr Twynchani) applied for a .separation order, with maintenance and guardianship of the child, from William Lindsay Gordon Glass Notman (Mr A. Bishop). A"lter hearing tho evidence, tho Magistrate made an order for -separation, and custody of the child, and ordered the defendant to pay mainten- ; afreo at the rate of £2 per week.