MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 288, 1 September 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided at Die Magistrate's Court 011 Saturday, -Uul dealt with tlio police cases. For insobriety three first: otVcndcrs who failed to appear were lined 10s. each, the amount of their bail.

William Hundley, who was found drunk on the Main Haul, Eketahuna, was fined ss. , ■ An elderly man named Osborne Sibson, who was found-sleeping: in Hie tram wait-ins-shed at Aro street, \vnn charged with being an idlo and disorderly person, in that, lie possessed insufficient lawful means of support. The accused said that lie could not get a bed, and felt justified in sleeping where ho could. The Magistrate adjourned the caso for ft week to see if the man could be got into a suitable home. _ A seaman named William Collins, articled on '.ho s.s. Opawa, was charged with wilfully disobeying a lawful command of the chief officer Cecil Lamb; aDd therb was a second charge of assaulting Captain S. C. White-Parsons. It. was stated in evidence that t.bo accused came on board at about 2.30 p.m. m a drunken state. He was ordered by the chief officer to go forward, but ho refused to do so. The captain then came cr. 'he scene, and as the man's behaviour Vilis violent, the captain ordered the chief officer to go ashore and arrange for the arrest of the accused. TVhcn the chief officer left the accused used filthy lan?iui£o towards tlio captain and assaulted the latter. The accused becamo so violent that he was placed in irons and subseoileiiii.Y handed over to the police. Collins admitted disobeying the commands of the captain, hut denied disobeying the chief officer. He. was very drunlc at the time for he had had twelve pints of beer besides a ivhi. B ky or two. Thu ohiej officer said that' the accused was a good worker when sober. The captain said that ho did not wish to have the man bant on board. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for the prosecution. The Magistrate eonvietcd the accused on both charges, and fined him .in the aggregate with costs '18s., with i.he alternative of nine days' imprisonment,

At a sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. W. 11. Coy, ,T.P„ ono first oifeiider was fined ss. or'2l hours.

The Sunday concert of tho Professional Orchestra, anticipated with pleasure by hundreds of music-lovers in the cih Droved a decided "'success. Considerably before the timo set down for the overture., His. Majesty's Theatre was crowded from' stalls fo gnllerv with an attendance bent upon the enjoyment of an excellent programme. The orchestra per formed under -the competent baton of Mr TT. Mosehini. Seven selections, comprising a wide variety of musical "int. ter, were listed. German's Nell G'wynno" furnished the overture. and among the foitovin? ifems were; "Tim# African Dances" (Ring), "Andantinn. for strings only (T.omwe). "La Gioeondn Fantasia (Ponchielli), "The Erlknig (Schubert), and the overture "Son and Fti'iUiser" (Sclmb°rt). Th° cojiclucnnc* item was the Tioonlnr Prelude to Aet 111. "Lohengrin" (Wagner).