MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2950, 9 December 1916, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MOSTLY BY-LAW CASES. Mr. L. G. Roid, S.3L, presided over yesterday's sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. James Brotherson was fined 10s., with costs 135., for using threatening behaviour on the King's Wharf. Goorgo Burtenshaw was fined os., with costs 75., for transacting business 011 a Sunday. Thomas E. K. Burgess was fined £1, with cost 75., for driving a motor-car at a speed greater than that allowed by the City by-laws. Frederick Arthur Laws_ was fined 55., with costs 75., for driving a motorear on tho wrong side of Adelaide Itoad. Mira Frazer pleaded guilty to cycling without a light in Cambridge Terrace, and tho ease was withdrawn. Harry Compton, who rode a motorcycle at more than four miles an hour across a street intersection, was fined 10s., with 7s. costs. For driving a motor-car without lights, W. G. French was fined 10s., with costs 7s. For driving on tho wrong side of the Courtenay Placo plantation, Sidney English and Goorgo Parkinson were oach ordered to pay costs, 7s. William Herbert Smith was fined 10s., with costs 7.5., for driving an express too fast across a street intersection. William Taylor, who left a motorcar unattended in a. public street, was ordered to pay costs, 7s. Henry Groves, a hotel-worker, was fined Gs., with costs 75., for signing an incorrect, working record. For insobriety, David Hammond Wilson and I'eter lM'Cabe were each fined 10s. Jack Ha mil ton was ordered to .pay 13s. costs respecting a charge of. negligently driving a lorry. Edward Westorlcy was fined £1 for assaulting John Crimmins. Michael O'Brien was ordered to pay costs, 75., 011 a 'charge of driving a lorry at a trotting pace over an intersection. As tlie owner of a. horse found at large, George Moleta was ordered to pay costs, 13s.