MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Messrs.'E. Arnold and Da vies, J.P.'s.) ANOTHER BETTING CASE. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, Gilbert James Young was charged on the information of Detective-Sergeant J. J. Cassells, of' Mount Cook Station, with having betted in the New Zealander Hotel, Manners Street. It was stated iSiat Young had J657 on him when arrested, and he was liberated on bail on his depositing .£SO of this with the Court.

Young is to reappear before the Court on January 3.

A SHIP'S DESERTER.

(Before Hessr9. George Lambert and John Danks, J P.'s.) Jomos Boyd was oharged with having deserted the steamer ,Ruapehu at Wellington on December 14/ 1910. He pleaded guilty. , Chief-Deteotivo.Broberg stated that Boyd had signed on with the Ruapehu in England ill 1910, aiid had deseTted and gone back on the Star of Canada. Then he had come out again on the Otaki, and on arrival here had been arrested. Boyd said that he wished to admit frankly that he had deserted, and to add.that there wore certain extenuating circum? stances,, and to 6ay that he was willing to have his wages drawn on for any expense he had put the shipping company to. Ho was, he said, married, and therefore wished to avoid going to prison. Defendant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. OTHER CASES. For insobriety, William Lewis was fined 10s., and Andrew Eohertson and Patrick Leahy were convicted and discharged. _ Phillip Angel was fined !£1 for having used obscene language in Egmont Street.