MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2793, 10 June 1916, Page 13

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MISCELLANEOUS CASES.

■A long list of by-law and other cases were dealt with by Mr. D. <i. A. Cooper, S.M., at 'the Magistrate's Court yesterday.

i'or- insobriety, Jas. Burns was fiiied .£<) or ono montn's imprisonment. an indecent, ollence, William Patrick M'Ginity was convicted and ordered to. come up:,for sentence when called upon. -

A fine 0f.55., with lis. costs, was imposed upon Douglas Kells for allowing a horse .to wancier. in .Goa Street. I'or hawking .without a licouse, Thos. Ritchie was fined si. and 7s. costs; and a similar sentencb was passed upon Jas. I)ick lor.having fed his horse,from other tnan a nose-bag in a' public -place. Stanley Burgess was lined ss. and 7s. costs lor standing his motor-car across the street-insteaa of parallel with tho footpath in. Cuba- Street. For driving 'his motor-car over the junction ot Cuba and Manners Streets lit over eigtit miies an hour, Daniel Chapman was fined <£2 and 7s, costs; and for not stopping his car when signalled by a policeman to do so lie was fined -10s. and 13s. costs. .

■ .Having left her motor-car unattended for more than five minutes in Rugby Street, Elizabeth Green was fined- 10s. and 7s. costs. At the instance of Inspector Hendrey /a similar chargo against Joseph Simpson, tho result. oi misunderstanding, ivas withdrawn, but ho was fined ss. and 7s. costs lor leaving his car without lights. .

Harry Clarence Cobb, for driving a dray at night without lights, was fined 10s. and 7s. costs.

•For allowing his horse to wander on the Old Military Road, Northland, Alfred Bradley was fined ss. and 7s. costs. --Mr. Robt. Cashman, Inspector, of Weights iind Measures, proceeded against a number. of tradespeople for having weights or machines in their possession and use not properly stamped. A fine of ss. and 7s. costs was imposed upon the following defendants:—Nicholas Pernandos, R. and E. Tingey, John Stephen Oliver, Chan Yee Hop, Keo Cheng and Co., Richard Holdsworth; and William E.. Apps and Robt. Martin, Jiot having appeared or offered any explanation, wero lined 10s. and 7s. costs each. l*or ill-treating his horse and driving a dray at night without lights, John Millanta was fined in all £2 10s. and 255. costs, or in default 1-1 days' imprisonment.

. A chargo of cruelty to his borse was brought by Captain Jas. Henry, Inspector lor the S.P.C.A., against Samuel Bray. Thero were several previous couvictions against defendant, who was fined <£5, and Jil costs, in default one month's imprisonment. Captain Henry brought a similar against Percy J. Smith, who was tho driver of Bray's horse; but as Smith had, he said, protested to tho owner about the condition of the animal, Smith was convicted and discharged. Por using language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace at tho time when the ceremony of wreathing tho portrait of Lord Kitdhener was being performed, near tho Bank of New Zealand, by tho Patriotic Society, a man named John Sturrock Robbie (47) was fined £2, or in default seven days' imprisonment. Because he fed his horse by other means than by a, nose-bag in a public

thoroughfare,. Richard Princo was convicted and ordered to pay 7s. costs. 'the Wellington tins Company, thrcnigli its meter inspector, Alfred jNorrio Tuylor, proceeded against D. M'Uavin for having oil May 2!) last improperly used gas belonging to the company.. Mr T Weave appeared for the company, and Mr. P. w. Jackson for the delondnnt. J. he inspector stated that ho visited tUo house oi defendant in Broadway Terrace with another ompioyeo ot' tho company. Sumo delay occurred in their being admitted, and the£ heard noises as if certain connections were being made to tho gas piping. When admitted they touiul the piping quite in order. Mr. P. AV. Jackson said this was a purely suppostitious case. The case,- said the lUagistrate, was one that contained grounds for suspicion, but no prima facie case had been established. There was 110 need to call evidence for the defendant— the case would bo dismissed. "Loitering in Luxford Street" and not obeying tho policeman's order to "move on was the charge against two youths, who, the police said, were a pair of a number of boys who frequented that neighbourhood to the annoyance of residents and shopkeepers. His Worship said, he had determined to put down all forms of larrikinism, and lie fined the lads 10s. each and 7s. costs.