MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1812, 26 July 1913, Page 18

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

HORSE RACE NOTIFICATIONS. SCOTT & ROSS FINED. Magisterial decisions in. cases in which James Scott ami "Dave" Koss were charged with issuing notifications relating to horse races were given yesterday. Tho cases were heard some lime ago, and the magistrate then decided to reserve decision pending the result cf a certain appeal. Scott was fined .£lO, and costs 175., and Eoss was fined iOs., and coste 7s. COSTLY INTERFERENCE. Thos. O'Neil was fined .03, with costs Bs., in default 11 days' imprisonment, on a charge of assaulting a constable on July 11. Tlie constable, in giving evidence, stated that, on the day in. Cjiiestion, lio was taking a prisoner to the Mount Cook station, when, defendant came up and began to uigo tlio prisoner to escape by saying , , "Give it a go, Alf '." Witness warned accused, and tlio latter thereupon used somo objectionable language. He then assaulted the constable. O'Neill did not appear in Court. PERIOD 01? REFORM. A young girl, who has beeu on remand awaiting sentence on a charge of committing theft of a number of articles of clothing, valued at ,£6 10s., appeared again yesterday, and was ordered to bo placed in tho Salvation Army Homo for a period of one year.

THREATENING BEHAVIOUR. James Ford and Charles E. Grerille both ontered -pleas of guilty to charges of using threatening behaviour. Both ware fined 205., and each was ordered to pay Court costs, 7s. Gd. Herbert Hill was fined 10s. and costs 13(;. for using threatening behaviour at lulbirnJe, VARIOUS WRONG ACTS. On a charge of insobriety, GeorgeM'Farlane was convicted and discharged, but on a charge of' damaging a pane of glass, the property of Walter Baldwin, he was ordered to pay the value of. tho pane, £1. He was remanded until to-day on a chaxge of using bad language. A fine of £3 was imposed in the case of James Caiunag, who _ was convicted on a charge of using certain objectionable language. Gustav Petersen pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour, resisting a constable, and using bad language. On the first charge he was fined 20>., on. the second 10s.. F and on tho third £3. Harry Reginald Bateman was ordered to pay Court costs 7s. in connection with a cliargo of throwing stones.

DRIVING AT CORNERS. For driving vehicles across intersections and round street corners at other than a walking pace, ' tho following persons were penalised:—Win. Alleu, 55., and costs 75.; Win. Beard, 55., costs 75.; Wm. Casey, as., costs 75.; Cecil Ellison, costs 255.;" Herbert Ed. Garbes, 55., costs 75.; Geo. Howe, 55., costs 75.; Wm. Arthur Keeble, 55., costs 75.; Joseph. Rogers, 55., costs vs.; Samuel Saddler, 55., costs 75.; Wm. Herbert Smith, 55., costs 75.; Robert Treleaven, 55., costs 75.; Reg. Welsby, 55., costs 75.; Young Howe, 55., costs 7s. Fines wore imposed on the following for ■ driving vehicles without lights:—(Jhas. Henry, 55., costs 75.; Herbert Gladstono Hill, 10s., costs 75.; Geo. A. Waddle, as., costs 13s, OTHER BY-LAW CASES. For leaving a anotor-car unattended on a street, Ronald Muir wa's convicted, and ordered to pay costs 13s. A lino of <Jl)tf. and costs 7s. was imposed upon Herbert Francis, who failed to comply with a notice to take up and'relay a drain. Three charges of allowing stock to wander were preferred against Patrick Cavanagh, of Xhandallah.. On tho first cliargo lie was fined 205., and costs £1 Bs.; on the second 205., and costs 75., and on the third offenco was fined 205., and costs 7s. W. N. Bennett, who erected a scaffold without first notifying the inspector, was fined 10s., and costs 7s.

COURT ODDS & ENDS. For insobriety, Alexander Churchman was fined 205., in default three days' imprisonment, i On a cliargo of assaulting Wm. Harrison, Joseph Boucher was convicted, and ordered to pay costs amounting to .£1 Is. Military defaulters were fined as folfollow:—Hadyu Algar, costs 95.; Albert R. Beavis, fined 55./ and costs 75.; Patrick Dunn, costs 75.; Harold Wm. Hardie, costs 75.; Matthew Kehoe, fined 55., and costs 75.; Henry Marshall, fined 10s., and costs 75.; J. H. Mawby, costs 75.; Ernest B. Newton, fined 10s., and costs 75.; Bertram l'earce, fined 10s., and costs 75.; Frank Pettingill, fined 10s., and costs 75.; C])is Henry Tucker, fined 10s., and costs 75.; Chus. Leslie Wilson, fined 10s., and costs 7s. For ill-treating a horse, Charles Edward Kivitt was fined -£3,' and costs 11s., in default seven days' imprisonment.