Cambridge Court Statistics.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1404, 27 January 1914, Page 5

Cambridge Court Statistics.

RETURNS FOR YEAR 1913. We are indebted to the Clerk of the Court, Cambridge, (MrP. J. McCarthy) for the following interesting particulars of Court business transacted at the local Courthouse for the yearly period ending December 31st, 1913, which have just come to hand: —Criminal Cases —

>; Persons taken into custody, summoned or apprehended 148, discharged 38, dismissed 5, committed for trial 3, summarily convicted 86, fined 55, peremptory imprisonment 13, orders made 16, convicted and discharged 18. Of the persons taken into custody, summoned or apprehended, details are as under: —Common assault 3, theft from dwelling 1, theft of a horse 2, theft 25, receiving stolen property 17, drunkenness 27, indecent act 1, no visible means of support 2, trespass 4, on premises at night without lawful excuse 3, cruelty to animals 1, threatening behaviour 1, stone throwing 1, not keeping proper side of road 1, negligent driving 1, lunacy 1, applications for prohibition o.ders 13, breaches of prohibition orders 3, supplying prohibited persons 2, not rendering personal service, 9, failing to eradicate weeds 3, failing to keep proper time book 3, applications for maintenance 4, bylaw cases 19, obscene language 1. —Total 148. —Civil Cases — Plaints entered 217, tried 143; aggregate amount sued for £2,755 10s Id, recovered £1,608 12s Id.