MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 231, 18 June 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE A.VI) MA I N'TEXAXCE CASKS. II r. S. II; M'Carthy, S.M., presided over yesterday's sittings of the .MagisCourt. Willium Eiuaunel Aoderstrom and .Maurice Hennessey were each fined .£5, in default one month's imprisonment, on charges of using obscene language in Mercer Street. On charges of drunkenness they were convicted and discharged. Charged with the thel't of an overcoat and hat, valued.a!: .£O, the property of .Uuncau Scott, Palmerslon Aortli, ' Hdward Myers was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on June 21. Martin .lames Kyles, a young man, who was clad in the garb of a seniuan, was remanded until .lime 25 on a charge of having assaulted a girl at "Wellington on .Juno 15. Jiphert Gore ]\rfilt was ordered to pay 12s. lid. per towards the support of his wile, lydia Pnrtilt, and was also ordered to pay 21s. costs.

Por the disobedience of maintenance orders, Bernard M'Kenmi was on one information sentenced to three months' imprisonment', and on another sentenced to fourteen days, the warrants not to be issued unlftss applied for. hi the one case Ihe records showed that there were •Cl 6 as. iu arrears respecting the Maintenance of.his wife and two children and J!3 os. in arrears regarding another of his -children.

Tobias Slatterj- was charged with the disobedience of a niaintonanco order, (here .being an Amount of .£8 Ids. in arrear, and lie was sentenced lo ono month's imprisonment, a warrant for imprisonment not (o be issued unless applied for. Defendant was ordered to pay 21s. costs.

Charles Turner was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for the disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears of which amounted to JfiU 18s. The 'warrant'for imprisonment: is not to be issued so long as defendant pays to complainant, his wife, tho amount .of the iirrears at Hi# rule of 2-s. per' week.