MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 146, 9 March 1918, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

I'OLICE 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.

Mary Little pleaded guilty to having used obscene language iii Glenbervio Eoad, and was fined £5, in default ono month's imprisonment. « For insobriety three fust offenders wore each fined 205., in default fortyeight hours' imprisonment.

There were three informations against Edward George Tierney for breaches of his prohibition order. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for the defendant, and.stated that the man's son had been wounded at the front. This had upset him, and somehow ho had managed to procure litjiior. Ho had since withdrawn his appeal before the Military Service Board, and was going into camp shortly. Tierney was fined 40s. and costs on the first charge, and convicted and discharged on the other, two. BY-LAW CASES. A youth named TCobert Adams was fined 20s. and costs for riding a motorcycle past a stationary tram ou the near side. For riding his motor-cycle in Harris Street at an excessive speed, which was stated to have been thirty miles an hour, Otto Winstanley was fined 40s. and costs 175.. 6\i Edith Agnes Wicks was fined 20s. and costs 17s. Cd. for watering :i garden with a hose and not having a wafermeter. Ernest Hunter was fined 10s. _and costs 17s. 6d., in default seven days' imprisonment, for hawking without' a license, and Archibald We"st,osi'milarl,y charged, was fined 205., and costs 17s b'd., with the option of seven days' imprisonment. For allowing stock- to wander John Stewart, an old offender,_was fined £5 and costs £2 3s. with the alternative of one montlrs imprisonment; Norman Olsen, on a similar charge, was fined 10s., with costs amounting to 17s. 6d.

William Rhodes, for. driving a vehicle without first obtaining a license, was fined 10s, and costs, in default seven days' imprisonment.

For unlawfully connecting a hath with a. sewer without a license or permit, David Smith was fined 10s. and costs, in default seven days' imprisonment.

There were three charges against John Millanta, a licensed hawker, for failing to move his barrow when requested to do so. Ho was Sued dOs. and costs on the first charge, and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence- when called upou on the other two charges..