MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2675, 22 January 1916, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided in. the Magistrate's Court .yesterday. In the case in which James Elleraj", licensee of the Princess Hotel, was charged with having sold liquor on a Sunday, Sir. Coopor said tluit the evidence for the prosecution was unsatisfactory. Ho dismissed the information. As the persons responsible for stock found wandering at large, James Godbev and William Percy Whitton were each fined 55., with costs 7s. William Hamlin was fined £2, with costs 75., and J. Oswald £1, with costs 75., for failure to clear gorse off laud. Michael O'Brien was filed £1 for resisting the police, and ordered to pay £1 2s. 6d. for damaging a constable's tiousers. - Robert Ralph Carr was remanded till January 25 on a charge of his having stolen £60 worth, of surgical instruments belonging to the Sha,w, Savill, and Albion Co. " Failure to attend military drill resulted iu Henry Arthur Grant being fined £1, witli costs 7s. George Henry Parkinson was fined £2 for breaking a prohibition order. A. Walling was fined £1, with costs 75., for having his shop open at a time when it should have been closed. For exceeding tho speed limit in motor-cars when crossing street intersections, Roy Smith and Briggs Robins were each fined £1, and costs 7s. John Rea, who had a motor-bicyclo indistinctly numbered, was fined 55., with 7s, costs. Reginald John Davis, of Poririia, appeared on two charges of selling liquor without a license to Luke Perawhiti,' and a charge of assaulting Perawhiti. He pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr. P. W. Jackson. Tho ease is not concluded.