MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17229, 21 December 1923, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.KI.) FREE FOR CHRISTMAS. Chastened, and much less eloquent than usual, Mary M’Kegney appeared for the third time within six months on a charge of drunkenness. When to explain she said that she had just come into town and if she were not sent to gaol she would go straight back to work. She suggested. to the Bench that a fine might well meet the case. The Magistrate : I won’t fine you. or send you to gaol. You are convicted and discharged. GIVEN A CHANCE. Frederick Charles Richmond, a young man, appeared for sentence on three charges of having failed to account to his employer for moneys received. The Magistrate said that the accused, when he had been in trouble before, kept the terms of his probationary release satisfactorily, and had married six months ago. If he were sent away now. it might mean the breaking of a relationship which would probably keep him straight. Richmond was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay £4 Is Bd, the amount of the stolen money, within two months. BY-LAW CASES.

Edward Austin was fined 20s and costs' - for cycling at night without a light;. vYilljarn A’Court was ordered to pay costs 7s for cycling at night without a light. Lionel C. OhatfieM was fined 5s for driving a motor-car at night -without a rear light. Charles J. Craddock was fined 10s for leaving his motor-car unattended. Miss R. MacFarlane was fined 5s for failing to notify the change of ownership of a motor-car.