MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.) POLICE CASES. BACK TO AUSTRALIA. Walter Joy was again charged with failure to maintain his child at tho Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning. Constable M'Cabe, who arrived from Australia on Wednesday, produced a warrant for his arrest, and asked that accused be returned in his custody to South Australia. _ Accused was arrested atr Uoikcraugi. Chief-Detective Broberg conducted the -..•. - ; ■■■■.■-■■■ M'Cabe was ordered back to Australia. ON STRIKE. • Hugh Staffert .was charged with assaulting Harold Victor Morgan at Ngauauranga on Fobruary 10. It appeared that the trouble arosa out of the slaughtermen's strike. The ■ defendant was on strike, and meeting the complainant, who was a general labourer at the works, he called him several kinds of a "scab," and hit him over tho head with a stick, causing a nasty scalp-wound. Accused was fined £3, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment. ■ Chief-Detective Broberg conducted tho prosecution. . . A BICYCLE HUB. Albert Ernest Carter was before the Court on a charge of theft. He was acoused of removing a bicycle hub from the shop of Joseph Boucher, on . Lambton Quay. Tho hub was valued at 235. Accused, said that the charge against hira was brought in retaliation for information . which he gave against a Mr. Willis, in whose house he used to board;. Accused conducted his own case, and when cross-examining one of tho witnesses (Mr. Boucher), said: "If you know the time and tho day you lost it (tho hub), then you know the day I took it." His Worship, when ordering defendant to pay 405., or undergo seven days in prison, remarked that the evidence was against him. MINOR CASES. For insobriety: Charles William Hobday, 55., or 24 hours; Peter Robertson, 10s„ 0r;24 hours; Albert White 405., or seven days; John James Cotterill, 2Tls., or 2-1 hours; Samuel Dohcrty convicted, and ordered to pay 17s. 6d. for curative treatment. Tho following young men were convicted and punished for non-compliance with the Defence Act John Friis, 205., and 7s. costs; John Hughes, 7s. costs; Henry Marshall, 205., and 7s. costs; and Clarence Williams, 7s. costs.

.Ellen Reidler was ordered to pay 3g. per week for the maintenance of her child. Edward John Pascoe'and Frank Grove, for failing to close their shops at tho statutory closing hours, were each fined 10s., with 7s. Court costs. For keeping employees engaged after 8 p.m. on January 25, Qucree Bros, were fined 103.' and 7s. costs. For allowing his horses to wander, George Bradley was fined 55., with 7s. costs. ■