THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17105, 29 March 1921, Page 4

THE COURTS.

♦ : —» : MAGISTERIAL ; MONDAY. (Before Messrs J. H. .Seager and A, B. I /Walker, .T.P.'e.) .. DRUNKENNESS A first offender was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Mary McKegney was convicted on a. chargo i of u&rng obscene language, nnd ordered to come up for Eent-enco when called upon. RE HANDED. On a. charge of being an incorrigible. rogTio Jessie MoEwen was remanded until April 4th. ' BREACH OP THE PEACE. - ' John Strachan, Howard Wilson, Hector Dixon, and Douglas Fairbiother were each fined 40s for causing a breach of 'the peace on Sunday night. • • 'J IN OTHER PLACES. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEQRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 28. A younj man, attired in clerical clothes, giving the unmo of lihfl Rev. W. i"'. JJoime, W.A., was arrested in one of the principal hotels in the city by Det'ctive-Sergeruits. Hammond and Ward, on a. charge of having obtained goods to tho value of £'3 by means of a valueless cheque, drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Christcliurch. Ho was sub-' scquently charged nt the Police Court t;s Claude Osmonda Barker, and remanded till Wednesday. It is alleged that nt ons largo drapery establishment accusal purciliMed sheeting and similar household' furnishings, of the vaiue of £l4O, and intimated that lie would }l*y for them by a cheque when lie called •Jurihg tho afternoon wjlh his motor-car to iak<: lliem. away. He was informed that a a ilia bnnkn would bi> closed for th« holidavs ho would have to uirni!"li ■ 1 - reference o» to Via bona fide*. He n plied, it. i# stated, that he could not' furnish it reference, as lie had just arrivfJ in city on furlough, and was Vuiyiug furniture in rivf;ir..ration for his wedding, because it was cheaper lijro than in Cliriotdntrcli.