MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

The Magistrate's Court, held a briefer Bitting than usual yesterday, St 'Andrew's Day. llr.' W.: G. Riddell, S.AI was on the boncli. , .• For insobriety, Richard Robinson was fined £2; John O'Sullivan £1, and Joseph Derby 10s. ■ John M'lntosh was fined £3, , witnesses' expenses 85.,,0n a.chargo of Ins having used obscene languago in Willis Street._ M'lntosli was under the anfluenco of liquor. r On a charge of insobriety, Thomas Crceney was convicted and discharged, ■and for having committed an indecent ■act on tho Ferry Wharf he was fined An admission' of having assaulted 'Fakir Largi was entered by William • {Mills, who was fined £3 and ordered to : fipay 12s. witnesses' expenses. Tho de- : :iault was fixed as fourteen days' imprisonment." i 1 Tho story of a motor-car jaunt was 1 told when two German friends from 4110 steamor Arawa, Edward Scheder ami William Appeltt, wero charged with' having been concerned in tho unshipping ' of somo marmalade, on which the duty ■ had not been paid. The offence was 1 said to havo been committed on Satur- - 1 day last. It was explained that tho : pair had' gone for a ride in tho motor, • and not having the casili to pay the ' drivor, liad offered him several tins of 1 marmalade, which they had brought. ' ashore, and on which the duty had not been paid. The marmalade had been ■ taken out of their own stqro of food. Tho defendants declared that they had ' tho marmalade aslioro in ignor- 1 ance of tho law. They were each fined 1 £1, in default seven days' imprison- < Dient. ' ,!