MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

:, POLICE CASES;:'; ' , : :(Before.Dr..A; M'ATthilijikM.)..■:-. -John M'Carthy. appeared in answer, to : a charge of having used obscene" language in-, Taranaki; Place, . and was,/-.convicted' and" fined £5: in default one month's, imprisonment. His Worship, remarking on-the prevalence of obscene language, stated- that only the previous night, when he"- was going up Willis .Street, - the;- language '■ .he; ; heard .was: 'disgusting. .--.:': ,'.-. ■':/,.,;.;"'.- ;■' ?}-.:.; ■■.'■. Thomas Oakley,. charged .with. being about to leave the Dominion;without,-having made provision for the maintenance-bf'/his"-unborn-' illegitimate"child,' was remanded -'to.'-'appear' at Christchurch on January 29.'.'-/ ,'. . ' George, William Jackson, ''charged' with insobriety, was sentenced to' 14, days'; imprisonment, and JohnScott,.similarly charged, .was convicted and discharged; 'One first offender was'also convicted and discharged..':"..'.-'. / i

At the Mount Cook.Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. S. Lambert,;' J.P., AVilliam Egan was t ,charged . with- :. drunkenness . in Cuba Street.;' Being bailed 'for 10s., and'not answering to his bail, he.,was,'fined. 10s. or 48 hours in gaol; Samuel;; "Asquith ' was oharged with insobriety in Tory/Street; havingbailed himself out for 10s;-arid not appearing, he was fined'the amount'of his bail, or 48". hours' imprisonment. •John Byrne was charged with drunkenness in Taranaki Street. He pleaded guilty, and was .fined'ss. or 24 hours' imprisonment. Claude M'Cully, similarly' charged, pleaded -guilty, and was fined in a like amount,; witff the usual' alternative.'/ '■': r : '. ■■'■" .;•'..' ,':'::■'■ ;ft,:7'" ' '■*/-•■