COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

MASTERTON SUPREME COURT. (Per United Press Association.) MASTERTON, March 28. At the Supreme Court this morning, Henry Walker was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, on a charge of housebreaking; John Jackson was given a similar sentence on three charges of indecent assault. Leo Barker, on a charge of arson, was found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and remanded till to-morrow. BREACHES OF PROHIBITION ORDERS. CHRISTCHURCH, March 2S. At the Magistrate’s Court diis morning, Mr Bishop, S.M., delivered himself strongly on the subject of breaches of prohibition orders. One of the offenders was declared an habitual drunkard, and sent to the Rotorua Home for two yearn. Another was lined £o, with the alternative of one month, Mr Bishop declaring he was an “utter waster," and was lapidly qualifying for a more drastic sentence. A man who had supplied liquor to a prohibited person was lined .£3, or one month, with a warning that next time he would get the full benefit of the Act. A ease in which a publican was fined for serving boys of 17 with liquor gave the Magistrate a text for the remark: “if boys have nothing better to do after parade than go to hotels, it did not say much for the Volunteering business, ” Marker, who sold slinking lish, got one month’s hard labour. ■