MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1669, 8 February 1913, Page 13

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Elddell, S.M.) DISHONESTY PUNISHED. John James Cotterill appeared for sen--teiico on a oharge .of his having stolen two watohes and n watoli-guard belonging to John Cross Atkinson. „ , ; Mr. H. F. O'Leary anted tho Court to deal loniently with Cotterill because he was a first offender, aid had already been a weck'in. gaol. r His Worship fined Cotterill M, In default 21 hours'- imprisonment. ILL-TREATMENT OI" HOESE. Thomas Frederick admitted a charge to tho effect that he had ill-treated a horso by causing it to bo worked while it was ill. , He was iined £2, with costs os. . On a similar charge respecting the earae horse, John Bowle9 was fined *3, with costs ;E1 10s. DRINK CASES. ' For insobriety, Lynes9 was, eontonced to one month's imprisoiunont; Francis Aloysins Flynn was fined XI; John DaTid Speight was lined £2 andprohibited j ifalcolm .'Eobertson was fined 10s.; and Alice Brown was ordered to nay £2 2s. medical expenses. John Pryse was fined jG3 for haying broken a prohibition order. BY-LAWS BEOICEN. The following were required to pay small sums in fines or eosta for hawng permitted stock to-wander:—Cecil Graham. Frank James Stewart, Kobert Raynor, William Rice, and Eyan. S. Remington Jones was fined 10s., .with 15s. costs, for having quitted a tram which was in motion. . OTHER tfASES. Thomas Henry Prioe was fined 25.) with oogts 55., for having failed to send a, child to sohool. ■ ■ A'fine wasinfldoted.on A man.who admitted tho theft of various goods from Harbour Board eheds. : ; i FINED FOR THEFT. A Harbour Board employee . pleaded guilty to ii 'charge of having on divers dates between February 1912 and February 1913 Btolon certain ■ articles, tho property of the Wellington Harbour Board. He was fined >25 an^.'ordered to pay 80s. in restitution of goods whioh hail not been -recovered. .