MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

■ & ' (Before Mr. W. Ci, liirldol], S.M.) INEBRIATION. Kato Sweeney appeared oil charges of being drunk and disorderly, and of breaking a prohibition order. She pleaded guilty. The polite slated that sho had been throwing hsif«lf down on the foolpath and screaming, and had attracted an audience of about 100 people. Sho was remanded till tc-day, and, in tho meantime, inquiries as to accommodation on I'akatoa will be made. Mary .Joyce was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and for a breach of a prohibition crder she was convicted and discharged. There were five first offenders for insobriety. Three were convicted and discharged. and two were fined 5=,, in delault 21 hours' imprisonment. UNLICENSED. Qco. Fernandos was charged with having employed Douglas Edward Muir to act as a taxi-cab driver, Muir not having a license. A fine of 10s., with 255. costs, was imposed. Douglas Edward Muir was then charged with having driven a taxi-cab without being licensed. He was fined 10s., and costs "s. OTHER CASES. Henry Luke was fined 95., and 4s. witnesses' expenses, through his chimney in Ingestre Street having caught fire. Harry Pearce, who had recently been ordered to contribute towards the support of an illegitimate child, and to find security in one .bond of £50 or two of £25, applied for a variation of the order, so as to dispense with the requirement, of security. Mr. I'. TV. Jackson appeared for Pearce, and said that Pearce had been unable to obtain security, and to avoid his going to gaol he proposed that tho order should be varied by doing away with the security and requiring Pearce to report to the police daily. His Worship would not make that variation, but said that lie would alter the amount to be in £45, and three securities of i!ls. Pearce was allowed a week in which to find the securities, and in the meantime he is to report to the police every day. Sidney Silvester was put in the box for being in arrears in respect of an order to pay 7s. a week towards the support, of his illegitimate child. The ■ sum of the arrears was £ij 18s. The defendant was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Au application of William Harriss for a pawnbroker's license was granted. Thomas Carroll was adjudged the putative father of an illegitimate child, and was ordered to pay ss. a week towards its support.