MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 July 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

' MISCELLANEOUS CASES. The sitting of the Magistrate's Courtyesterday was tgresided over by Mr. W. G. Iliddell, S.Jf* Thomas Nilson was fined £o, in default 21 days', imprisonment, for. committing a grossly indecent nqt in Lnmbton .Quay. Patrick Kynn was accused of having committed a similar act-in Courtenay Place, and was also fined J25, with tho alternative of spending 21, days in gnol. For committing a breach of his prohibition, order, .Tames Wallace was fined 405., in default, seven days' incarceration in prison, nnd'on a charge' of drunkenness he was convicted and .discharged. Several first offenders charged with insobriety 'were dealt with leniently.' George 'Richards was ordered tobe imprisoned for six weeks for the disobedience of a'lnainfoimnce order in respect to his w-ife, tho arrears amounting io .EI9 10s. His Worship'made a "condition that the warrant for imprisonment should be. suspended so long ns JSI.' per week was paid off the arrears. Grace Moriiii was granted A separation from her husband. William Frederick Moran, who, ?he said, left her .in 1897. Complainant said that since that'tunc the''whereabouts of her husband had udt been located.' Amy M. Infield, for whom Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared, asked that an order for separation, guardianship, and maintenance hi'reinject'to herself and child should be made airainst her husband, Noel Gr'nunds Infield, who was represented by Mr. Barker. Complainant stated that aha ; hnd been married six years, and she mndo allegations regarding tho treatment sho had received from her husband, who was a returned soldier at present employed by 'the Defence'authorities~-at Wauganui. Defendant said that'with the' exception of six or seven weeks his wifo had refused to live with him after ! lie cams back from tho war. His Worship said ho was satisfied that the relations between the parties wore not satisfactory, but it was impossible to say that tho defendant was wholly to blnmo tor tho attitude taken up by his wife, Thero seemed to be faults on both sides. ITe would not mnko an order for separation, but defendant would be required to pay 10s. ner week towards the support of'his wife and 7s. Cd. per week in re- | spool to the maintenance of the child.