MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

9 ASSAULT ON A CHINAMAN THE COURTENAY PLACE AFFAIR. James Little appeared on remand charged with assaulting Wong Chow in Courtenay Place so as to (Sause him actual bodily harm. "The Chinaman is still in tho Hospital, and will bo there for several weeke," 6aid Inspector Hendrey in asking for a remand till Friday next. The remand was granted. OTHER OASES. "I have not worked for 18 years, and I hare been in 72 hospitals," explained Robert Green Verdent, charged with being an incorrigible rogue. Accused, who is partly paralysed, was discovered on Thursday night sleeping at the back of the old Opera House, fie asked that he might be placed Ohiro Home. Ho was remanded tiirPriday next. Peter Busbridge, who was arrested by Detective Abbott on. one of ; the troopships on a charge of failing to provide for his wife and child at Dunedin, was remanded to appear there on Monday. Teenio Rogers was fined £3, or ono month, for iising obscene language in Frederick Street. . John Pryse was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for drunkenness, and fined 10s. ■or three days' gaol on each of two charges of committing breaches of his prohibition order. For drunkenness, Harry Whittaker was fined '405,, or seven days. Four first offenders were dealt with. For disobeying' a maintenance order, the arrears of which amounted to £3, Charles Alexander Daniel Thomas was ordered.to be imprisoned for seven daye in the Westport Gaol. . BY-LAW CASES. John Betteridge Topp, a taxi-cab driver, was fined 55., with costs 75., for charging a greater fare for the carriage of a passenger than was authorised by the by-law. Fines of ss. with costs 7s. were .imposed on the following for the by-law breaches mentioned:—Edward Thane, riding a bicycle without a light after dark; A. E. Whyte, driving a motorcar in Molesworth Street without a taillight; John H-ea, riding a bicycle without a light after dark.' Thomas Reginald M'Laughlin pleaded not guilty to- a charge of attaching a ■ cistern at -No. 8 Wright Street to a- pipe connected with the water main without having obtained the consent of the engineer. • Mr. V. R. Meredith appeared for the defendant, who was fined ss. with costs £1 Bs. For allowing stock to wander in Tiber Street, Charlotte Stewart was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs 13s. Constance Dowling was ordered to pay costs, 75., for keeping an unregistered dog. ; MargaTet M'Parland, licensee of the Hotel Cecil, was charged with permitting drunkenness on her premises. Mr. J. J. M'Grath appeared on behalf of defendant, and entered a plea of not guilty. After hearing evidence His Worship dismissed the information,