MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.); ALLEGED CONVERTING. Prank Humphrey, appearing on remand, was charged that on /November 23, 1909, he received £2 lis. 9d. on terms requiring him to account for tie . same to Arthur Edward Preston, and that he converted tho same to his own. (uso. Ho was further charged l with failing to account for the sum of 7s. 7d., and failing to account for tho sum of 9s. 9d. Chicf-Dotectivo Broberg prosecuted, and Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for accuscd, who elected to bo dealt with, summarily, and pleaded not guilty. After part evidence had been given for tho. prosecution, the Chief Detective applied for a remand, in order to call another witness, whom ho now discovered would bo required. Accused was remanded until Mondaynqxt, bail being allowed in . £25 and ouo surety of £25. IMPROPER LANGUAGE. . A young man named Michael Laery pleaded guilty to a charge of using improper language on King's Wharf, and was fined 405., with costs lis., and solicitor's fee £1 Is., in default 14 days' imprisonment. Mr. H. O'Loary appeared for accused, and Mr. Smith for tho Wellington Harbour Board. Joseph Frederick William Holborno admitted making uso of bad languago in Frederick Street on October 26, and was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment. Mr. A. Dunn appeared for accused. CRUELTY TO A HORSE. Harry Kirkers p(eaded guilty to cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it while it was suffering from sore shoulders. ■ He was. fined £4, with costs 7s.j in default 21 days' imprisonment

FINED FOR ASSAULT. Daniel Lynch pleaded guilty to a chargo of assaulting William Branchett on tho s.s. Kotiku 011 Thursday, and was fined 405., with the option of 14 days' imprisonment. • / 1 ' .EXPENSIVE FIREWORKS. For• setting off fireworks in- Abe] Smith Street on November 5, Wong Yung Chow was fined 205., with costs Ts., 111 default seven days' imprisonment. NOXIOUS WEEDS NOT CHECKED. I 'I lie Agricultural Department proceeded against a large number of property-owners for failing to clear various weeds from their sections. Tho following .defendants were fined 205., and costs /s.: —Charles T. Duncan, Charles Dupre, Evan "Williams, F. W. Platts, E. Victor Slyfield, Robert Steel lhompsoh, H. Powell, Edward John Harvey, Elizabeth Harvey, Richard fevers, Arthur Ballinger, William John Bell, David Andrew, Annie Scott, and i'anny Adair. The following defendants were each fined 10s., and . costs 7s.:—Charles I I Penny, Alexander J. Rand (no costs), ! | Mabel Staples, Wilfred Skegg, William ■ Hinchcliffe, Ernest Snnley, Robert I [ n oodhouse, Frederick Cheeseman, C. I O'Driscoll, E. J. Healey, George. B. Welling, George Welling, L. Crabtree, I David L. O'Connell, Harry Hume, Allexander H. Wallace, John H. and W. I Phillips, Thomas • A.- Miint, Thomas [•Ward,' and - F. Beetham. 1 j OTHER CASES. Joseph O'Hanlon, charged with i drunkenness, was declared to be a habitual inebriate, and was sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment, a prohibition order to issue against him. Charles King, for drunkenness, was fined 10s., in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Two first offending inebriates were fined 55., with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment, and another first offender, who. did not appear, was ordered to | forfeit his bail of 10s. Ada Curry, for whom Mr. P. J. o,'ltegan appeared, consented to' an Order to pay 2s. a week towards the support of each of her four. children in ah Industrial School from January 1 next. In the case against D. Oliver, for alleged assault on Pan Chok Kai on tho s.s. Vermont, there was no appearance of tho parties, and tho information was dismissed. .' An adjournment until November 25 was granted in three .cases against Patrick- Kayanagh for ' allowing sheep to wander,.'in the' Onslow Borough.. | An till.. November'. 2a was granted in. the case against Henry Thoina's r Johns;', .for ".failing to comply with drainage notice. Charges against Harold Douglas Barton, for; failing to maintain his child, and failing to maintain his wife, were adjourned -until Monday nest. ' ■ ■