MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 122, 9 February 1918, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, and dealt with the police and by-law cases. ■ ' .' ■ Ernest Hildred, charged, with assaulting Ronald Thomas M'Hugh and Charles Paton, on Thursday, was remanded to February 11. Bail was allowed in £50 and two sureties of £25 each. For insobriety, two first offenders who failed to appear were each fined 205., with the option of forty-eight hours' imprisonment. For using obscene language, Fisher, labourer, Johnsonville, was fined £5 and costs 175., in default one ' month's imprisonment. Ada Elizabeth Knott, against whoin a prohibition order was issued recent-' ly, was convicted of breaking that order, and was fined 40s. and costs, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. William Osw : ald Wilkinson was fined £1 on each of three charges of giving unlawful receipts for sums of £2 and over. r

For watering his garden with a hoso without the water passing through a meter, Hugh Morrison Fraser was lined 10s. For allowing stock to wander, Ernest Hadiey was fined 10s. and costs; and George Smith and Edward Thomas Wills were each fined 30s. and costs. The following who were convicted of Sunday trading were each fined 20s. and costs:—G. Burtenshaw, Louis Dallabarca, Neil Blair Austin, Grace Roach, and Hugh George Webb. Patrick Boyle was fined 30s. and costs for riding a bicycle on the wharf. George Henry Jackson, for exceeding the speed limit in Adelaide Road, was fined 10s. and costs 455.; and for a similar offence Bert Savage was fined 40s. and costs. Two lads named Septimus Knight and Ernest Woods, for riding a horse furiously at Island Bay, were each fin"d 10s. and costs. For failing to attend drill, H. E. Guppy, R. A. M'Fnrland, and J.'C. M'Carthy, Territorials, were each fined 40s. and costs, iri default fourteen days' military detention.