MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 19

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

'(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) : SC ENEO NST EAM EBM AO RI., PASSENGER SENT TO PRISON. . While intoxicated on the stoamer Maori on Thursday night, a steerage passenger, named John Pegg, became very: troublesome because (so it .was stated) none of the other passengers would stand up and light him'. All reasonable efforts to quieten 7 him proved futile, and Captain Aldwell was. sum'moiied from the bridge.:. 7 After- the arrival of the master of the ship, Pegg ihado use of very improper language within. the hearing of some. t two liundrcdrpassengers, and lie was" thereupon 'placed in irons. Appearing before the Magistrate yesterday, he was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for the uso of improper language, and, wak fined. 40s; ;for_ disorderly conduct, tho alternative being 'seven days' imprisonment, i TWO VAGRANTS.. An old man, named John Hughes, who had been found drunk on Wellington Terrace, was convicted of being an idlo and disorderly person,and "was sent, to gaol for three months. For the . offence of . drunkenness lie was lined 10s., with the option of forty-, eight hours''imprisonment., Archibald M'Lean, who, it was stated, had .been' injured m a tram accident somo months ago, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and to a further charge of being without' lawful means of support. After being discharged from the hospital, M'Lean was to have,been treated as an out-patient, but, instead of paying regular visits to the institution, ho had neglected his injuries. He was sentenced to a months' imprisonment,' where his injuries can be attended to by t'-e aaoi surgeon. On tho charge of iirui;ilei:ness ho was fined 10s., in defaait fortj - eight hours' imprisonment.

THEFT OF A BRO.OCH. A. young-woman, named Mary M'Goivan, ■ pleaded guilty to the theft of a brooch, "valued at 17s. 6d., the property. of 0110 Amelia Wilson. A lino of 20s.' was imposed, in default seven davs' imprisonment, and accused was also ordered to pay 45., so that the brooch might .bo recovered .from tlio pawnbroker,.- with whom it had been, pledged, ancV returned ..to its:owner- ... Carolino Smith, on a charge of drunkenness, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Susan M'Laughlin, charg-. Ed with insobriety, was fined os., in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, a similar penalty being imposed on four iirst-oflending inebriates. Another first offender' was convicted and. discharged, while one, who did not appear, was ordered to forfeit his bail of 10s., in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment.