MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES AND MAINTENANCE OBDERS. . ' ..Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided over a silting of 'the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning.. . James M'Laughlin, who was ' conveyed to tho lockup, with some. difficulty on Saturday afternoon by a constable' and same territorials, was charged with drunkenness and .resisting Constable Qordine. On tho first charge has was fined . 105.,' and- on the second the. alternatives being fixed at 48. hours' and 7 days' imprisonment respectively. Jane Scharre was sentenced to six , months' imprisonment ,fot vn'grancy.. For drunkenness,Eric■ Victor Lundquist ond Thomas Kelly were each fined 405., with the alternative <rf seven days' imprisonment. .Three first oilemlcrf .were dealt with. .. Joseph Kenny was fined XI, I ,with,costs. 75., for committing a bre-aoh of his. prohibition order.' MAINTENANCE CA'SES, For disobeying a,. maintenance order, the arrears of which amounted to JC3, Karuh Bunion was ordered to be imprisoned for seven'days, tho warrant to be suspended on the payment of 2s. per week off the arrears. Wm. Kirkpatrick was ordered tp be imprisoned for seven days; on a similar charge (maintenance arrears,.l£B 104.); the' warrant to bo suspended on tho payment of ss'. per ' week off arrears. ■ Alfred George Floyd admitted . maintenance arrears amounting tp jCIOO, He was ordered to bo imprisoned for' three months, the warrant to be suspended on ' the payment of ss. per oir the arrears. Albert Nicholson was fined 10s. foy tlje dlspbedience of his order, the arreaf6 of . wjiich amounted to ss. « r An application was made against fred Garrett for the variation of a main- , tenancq order issued against him- No appearance wag made by defendant.' The amount under ordar was ordered to b» paid at -Petoaa instead of Wellington.