MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Dr! A. M'Arthur, S.M.) . Alfred Fras'er, a seaman on the Wai>, mate, pleaded guilty to a charge of using improper language in the. bar of th« Cambridge Hotel aud was fined 405., .in default U days' imprisonment. Tlia same accused pleaded not guilty to damaging a pane of glas-s in the Cambridge Hotel, valued at 155., but.the evidenc#. was against him and he was ordered to make good the damage or go to ' gaol for seven days. In the event of the fines' not being paid, accused is to be placed aboard his vessel if she leaves tlie Dominion before the expiry of ..the der fault . terms of imprisonment. . Daisy M'Neill, alias Simmelhag, charged with importuning in. Jlolesworth, Street, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Alfred / Smyth pleaded guilty to theft on December 27 at Wellington of clothing valued at v £2 Is. (id. the property of Sydney Hogan. Oil the application of Chief .Defective Brob'erg, accused was remanded until Saturday iiexh for sentence. Fourteen offenders against sobriety : appeared. and were dealt with as follow*t Henry M'Corniack, against whom thero were 12G previous convictions, was sen-. teheed to a month's imprisonment! Philip. Sharkey was fined 205., in . dofault seven days' imprisonment.' ' Two first offenders, who had received- medical attention, were ordered to pay fee* amounting to 205., in the one -case, and 17s. Cd. in tlie other, the default beinff 43 hours' imprisonment in each . case. Two first offenders, who did not appear, were ordered to forfeit their bail of. 10a. each or undergo 48 hours' imprisonment. Another, first offender was fined 55".,-with the alternative of 24 hours' imprison, meat, while seven other first • offenders were convicted nnd discharged. "