MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2657, 31 December 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

At yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Messrs. J'. B. Speed and R. Wilberfoss, Justices of tho Peace, were on the bench. Amos Anketcll, who admitted having travelled on R.M.S. Moana . from San Francisco to Wellington without paying his faro, was fined £5, in default to undergo 14 days' imprisonment. Frederick Sermon pleaded guilty to tho theft of 79 packets of cigarettes and two packots of preserved ginger. He was remanded for sentence for a week in order that tho police might, if possible, ascertain who tlie owners of the property were. On a charge of theft of a gold watch chain valueu at £6, a young woman, named May Gibbons, was remanded until January 0. A prohibited person, named Thomas Forsyth, who had been arrested for drunkenness on the previous day, was sentenced to a week's imprisonment. John Patrick Kelly, who made no appearance when charged withi drunkenness, was ordered to forfeit his bail, £1. John Harrison was ordered to pay 17s. 6d., the amount of the medical expenses incurred in connection with his curative treatment after he had been found ill a state of helpless drunkenness. Patrick Kain, for drunkenness, was fined 10s., with tho option of 24 hours' imprisonment, while Andrew Davidson, on a similar charge, was remanded for a week's curative treatment in gaol. Ten first-offenders were also dealt with.