MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 13

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

: (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) POSTMAN BEFORE THE COURT. Cecil Stanley .Chaplin, for whom Mr. P. Jackson appeared, was charge.! that on November 22, at Lower Hutt, ho detained five loiters and a post-card, the property of thn Postmaster-General. Accused was employed as a letter-car-rier at tho Lower Hutt Post Office. ' He wan remanded until Monday 'afternoon, bail being allowed/ in £50 and two sureties of £25 each. - ' ■ SERIOUS CHARGE. Walter Haslcr, a young man twentytwo years of age, was charged with assaulting a girl three years, of ago. Hβ was remanded .'until November ?Sl, bail being allowed in £100 and tvro wireties of £50.each. . . -. THREATENING BEHAVIOUR,. ' " ; i Elisabeth Amastasia Friers.. pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour in Brooko Street on , November 11',' and was" lined 205., with costs 155., and witnesses' expenses Bs., in default seven days' imprisonment. . . . :\ OTHER CASES. - Three charges of allowing sheep to wander in the Onslow Borough were preferred against Patrick Kavannagh, who pleaded guilty. On tho first charge ho was fined 405., with costs 75., and solicitor's fee £1 Is., in default seven days' imprisonment. 'On the second chafe

he was ordered to pay, costs '75./ in,do- "> fault twenty-four hours , ■ imprisonment. ■: For the third offence a fine of 20s. was j imposed, with costs 75., and solicitor's : fee £1 Is., the alternative being seven j days' imprisonment.- Mr. F. G. Bolton- ■ i appeared for defendant, and Mr. P. .-! Jackson for the Onslow Borough Coun- i cii. ■ ■ j For carelessly driving a vehicle in ■; Reyans Street, -\Louis Coe was fined 1 205., with costs 75., in default forty- I eight hours' imprisonment. j James 'Wilson was fined 10s., with' j costs 75., for allowing two horses to be • at large. Default was fixed at forty- \ eiglit hours' imprisonment. ' , .! For riding on a tramcar and failing i to pay his fare, Benjamin Dawson was "}. fined 55., with costs 95., and solicitor's '< fee 10s. Gd., in default, forty-eight ■» hours' imprisonment. . ■ . i Cecilia Smith; alias M-'lntosh, pleaded j guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and : asked.to ho allowed to leave the city., i She was remanded'until this morning I for sentence. .':■.''■ ... ■! An adjournment'til! December 9 was : 1 granted iii tho case against Henry ■ i Thomas Johns for failing to comply with ' a drainage notice. ■ j The case against Frank "Wilson, for .; driving a motor-car at a dangerous i speed, was adjourned until Monday i nest. ' ■■.'■■. . . i