MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 158, 29 March 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SEVERAL MINOR CHARGES. Mr. F. y. Erazer, S.M., presided over the sittings of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Minnie Neilson, who had three previous convictions against her, was charged with drunkenness and with tho breach of a prohibition order. "I just came out after doing 48 hours," said Noilson, "and the notice was not served on.me, so I thought 1 was justified •in having a couple'of drinks."

Convicted and discharged for drunkenness, accused was fined .£l, i¥ default 72 hours' ; imprisonment, on the second charge. 1

Arthur Henry Beable,<Mio was charged with drunkenness and with having broken the conditions of his prohibition order, was punished in a similar manner.

Five first-offenders, for insobriety, were ordered to forfeit tho amount of their bail, 10s. each, and one, a soldier who returned to the city on.Thursday, was convicted and discharged. A youth named Harold William Blackie was charged with having stolen i 2, theproperty of David Bell. He pleaded guilty. It appeared that Blackie was an' absconder from, Wernroa Training Farm. Ho was convicted and ordered to be returned to the care of the 'Education Department."

For having made use of obscene' langunge. Joseph Clements was fined' £1, with 7s. costs, and Margaret Sullivan was ordered to pay costs, 7s. Thomas' Adams wns nrnsppufod on a chargo of having assaulted Robert Dnnslall in.a railway enrriflw between Petono and Wellington on March 15.

It atippiiired .that .an argument, had arisen between the two iupii over the subject of receptions to'toldiers.'.

Defendant said that ho had been provnked lo fitrike Dnnstnll because of certain remarks whioh the hitler had addressed to-him.

Adams, wns ordered to pav costs amounting to ,C 2 17s.