MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20057, 21 September 1920, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. CHRISTCHURCH. %' (Before Mr S. E. M’Carthy, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A male first offender was fined 6s, in default twenty-four ; hours’ imprisonment. - WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED. Jones, an elderly man, was fined £5 and costs, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, for having been drunk on a railway station, despite a plea, that the offence was resultant from visit to a dentist. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge of having committed a nuisance on the i airway. In respect of the last-men-tioned chargte, the Magistrate isaid: I have not dealt with you under that section, otherwise I might have had to send you to gaol for a year.” DISLIKED SALVATION ARMY HOME. , Dl |lcie Bigwood, a girl neatly dressed in blue, was charged with having absconded from tiio Salvation Army Home. ■ J \ The girl was first placed in the Salvation Arniy Home on August 15,1919, said Sub-Inspector Dew. She had been ordered to remain there two years, but on June 8 last she absconded, and was convicted and ordered to come up tor sentence when called upon, and sent back to the home. She, abscond! Ed again on Juno 19, and Ireturned last night. She had evidently made up her mind not to stay at the home. . was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. MAINTENANCE. ' ' Cancellation of a maintenance order against Thomas Joyce was granted on the application of Mr H. D. Andrews, • v , th ? t the or der was made in 1904, and that since then Joyce had died and the woman on behalf of whom the order was made had married again.’ The child of the first marriage had herself married. The application was made to clear a title to property. Rose Broderick was provisionally sentenced t° seven days’ imprisonment for disobedience of a maintenance order. Ernest Henry Ricketts was ordered •to pay Florence Matilda Ricketts £2 5s per week maintenance. Separation and guardianship orders were made in favour of the complainant. Hiram Cox was provisionally sentenced, to six months’ imprisonment for failing to maintain Lena Cox. An application for an affiliation order against Edward Kelly was dismissed. CONCERNING A TRACTION ENGINE. A charge against H, Ward of employing an Uncertificated driver of a traction engine was dismissed. For acting as a traction engine driver without being certificated. A. E. Whale was fined £l, with costs. LYTTELTON. (Before Messrs J. Garrard, J.P.; and F. W. Anderson, J.P.) One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and discharged., James Ward, trimmer on the Northumberland, charged with using obscene language, was convicted and fined £s.'