MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. WANDERING CATTLE. Edwin Eden was fined £3 and costs for allowing a mob of cattle to wander on the highway. AN AM BE RLE Y CASE. Dougald M Phee, Amberley, for keeping open the Railway Hotel, Amberley. after hours for the sale of liquor, was fined £3 and costs. Charles Harding, for being unlawfully on the premises of the same hoteafter closing hours, was fined 30s and costs. ILLEGALLY TAKING TROUT. G. Hill, Taumutu, for taking trout without a license, was fined £2 and costs, and ordered to pay solicitor’s fee £2 2s. Albert Walter Strez was similarly dealt with for taking trout without a license. Walter Kimber. Springston, for illegially buying trout, was fined £2 and costs, and ordered to pay solicitor’s fee, £2 2s. Mr M. J. Gresson appeared for the Acclimatisation Society. HAWKER FINED. Anthony Watson, for carrying on hawking in a prohibited area, was fined £l and costs. (Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S M.) DRUNKENNESS: A statutory first offender for drunkennessrwas fined £l, in default twentyfour hours’ imprisonment. FINED FOR ASSAULT. Albert Greenway, a young man, pleaded guilty to having assaulted William Ilyndman. Senior-Sergeant Martin stated that the defendant had been working for the Drainage Board at Woolston. For some reason he was discharged by the foreman. Later Greenway came back and assaulted Hyndman, a man of over fifty. The assault was not provoked. “The man had used offensive language to me," said defendant. A fine of £2 and costs was imposed. EXCUSE ACCEPTED. Francois Rutherford (Mr W. J. Cracroft Wilson) pleaded not guilty to a charge of having been unlawfully on the premises of the Oxford Hotel after closing time. Sergeant M’Namara stated that he and Constable Wootton visited the hotel about eight o'clock one evening. He found defendant there -with a lodger. Defendant made several statements which did not coincide. lit. said that he had brought some luggage for a man upstairs. In the box, defendant said that some time after four o’clock he Aaw a man named Rutledge in the Square under the influence of liquor and he took him to the Oxford Hotel. Later he •went to Halswell, came home for din ner, and then went to the Empire Hotel for Rutledge's luggage to take it to the Oxford Hotel. The Magistrate said that he 1 would give defendant the benefit of the doubt and dismissed the information. RANGIORA. (Before Mr 11. A. Young. S.M.) For a breach of his prohibition order, Samuel Wilson was fined 10s and costs (15s). Timothy O’Sullivan pleaded guilty to being in possession of an unregistered firearm and was convicted and ordered to pay costs. THEFT ALLEGED. Christopher John Lawrence and Leslie Walter Lawrence were charged with the theft at Ilawarden of twelve sheets of roofing iron, two shovels, and tools, valued at £7 Is, the property of the Waipara County Council. Mr Lascelles appeared for defendants. The Magistrate dismissed the charges after the hearing of lengthy evidence, he remarking that the dispute as to the ownership of the tools should be settled by civil action. Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the following civil cases: Mrs M. A. Lane v. T. Sutton, £1 ss; II A. Bullock v. C, Clark. £2 4s.