LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17120, 15 April 1921, Page 10

LYTTELTON NEWS.

MAGISTRATES COURT. ! Messrs "W. T. Lsster and F. G. Norton, J.P.'e. presided at the Magiatrate'e Court yesterday. A first offender for dninkenneß was fir>rd sa. John Killeen, for drunkenness, was fined ss, and for casting offensive matter in a public place wns fined 10a, t Andrew Burks, a fireman ofl t!he **. Port Hocking was charged with assaulting- Leonard Bailey, a wani-an- off the sam? Fhip. Bailey stated that on Monday night Burke had prevented an elderly seaman from leaving his quarters in tho ship, arid he had interfered on the old man's behalf, whereupon Burke) knocked him down and kicked; him about the face and body. Tha ißench imposed a lino of £5, half lo go to Bailey. Joseph Moran and John Conner, two stokehold bands in the. American steamer Morris- ! town, were jointly charged with assaulting I Pedro Diaz, a • Spaniard. Both pleaded not I guilty. ' I Pedro Diaz stated that, tho men had dV , (tended into the stokehold in a drunken condition arid attacked another fireman.' Witness tried to cepnrate them, whereupon OortI r.or struck hin: on the head with an iron bar. Morris Clarke, ohief engineer of the vesseL, I stated that the" men hod gone ashore without ■ Icnve and had returned aboard und<r the influence of liquor, and going into the sloko- ; hold had started ft row and assaulted Diaz. ! The men hod no business in tho engines-room i tho stokehold whilst under tho influenoe i of liquor. ! The accused denied having commenced tho j row and slated that. Diaz had made an attempt to strilco them with an iron bar, and that Connor had hit hiia back with tho | wre.nnh which he had taken off Diaz. j Evidence war also given by tho third engiivecr and. Constable- Irwin. Tho Bench soid it was fortunate tiiai the chief engineer had bean able to stop the trouble, otherwise there might havr been a murder. Tlf> accused were fined £lC> each, and ordered to pay £1 9s medical expenses, in default two months' imprisonment with hard labour. On charge* of drunkenness they wera each fined .* THE PICTURES. "Blind Husbandß," a. Universal film, will be screened at tho Harlour Liq;ht Theatre naain this evening, with a Cenlun 1 comedy "Salome Liojis. - -' To-morrow Maurice Tourneur's production, "Th« County Fair," will be shown, tho supports including a Chester Comwly and a Gazette. PRESENTATION. Mr Howard Moody, who recently resigned from the position of musical director at tho Harbour Lights Theatre, to tako up the po-i----tion of solo pianist at the Greater Crystal Palace, Chriitchurch, was yesterday the recipient of a case of brushc-i. the joint gift of the Lyitdton Pictures. Ltd., and tho st:ff j of tho theatre. Mr A. \T. Lrvn-5, managing" | director, who made the presentation, spoke of tho o?Aeczn in which Mr Moody was he'd by tho company and etaff, and wished him every success in his new sphere, Mr Moody suitably acknowledged the gift.