MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

t POLICE CASES. Mr. E, Page, S.M., dealt with tho police cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. "This man has been knocking about town drinking and begging liquor from other people," was the statement of SubInspector Emerson in respect to Joseph Mitchell, who was ehnrged with being an idle and disorderly person, also with waring tho King's uniform without the permission of the Governor-General. Tho accused said that lie had no other clothes but the uniform, and could not go to work in that. Tho Magistrate advised Mitchell to apply to the authorities in icspcct to his uniform. On the first charge he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when • called upon within a period of 12 months, Mid ou the second charge ho was convicted and discharged. On his second appearance for drunkenness, -Robert O'Leary was fined 10s., and tivo first offenders who failed to appear forfeited their bail. Hugh Leonard Greig was ordered to pay 255. towards tho maintenance of his wii:'° and children. Mr. .1. J. M'Grath appeared for Harry Wallace Ivong, who was charged with lisin,' threatening behaviour in _ Brando;: Street, and also ivilh using indecent language. The accused, who is a taxidriver, had an altercation with another driver on the taxi-stand. The trouble arose over tho occupation of a vacancy on the stand. The evidence shoved that it was a triv'al affair, and both informations were dismissed. The Agricultural Department took proceedings against A. C. Chambers, Alijerr Emnietl, and A. P. M'Kellar, for exposing for sale in the Johnsonville yards sheep infested with lice. All threo were fined each and costs. ,T. luicli and Co.. pork butchers, Courtcnay Place, and .7. G. Hamel, butcher. Cuba Street, for whom Mr. W. G. Mellish appeared, were convicted of failing to close their shops in accordivnco with-a requisition made under "the Shops nnd Offices Act, and were each fined .£1 an ! costs. Kathleen Francis, barmaid of the Clarendon Hotel, was charged with sell ng liquor to a drunken man. A polico sergeant and a constable stated that they visited the bar and saw a man who was drunk take a bottle of beer off tho counter and pick up Is. 6d. ■ When taxed, the barmaid said she did rot know the man was drunk and expressed regret. This ?he denied in Court, and said that she did not know to whom tho change belonged, or who took the money. The accused was fined 4!5 and costs. •Amy Hunt was fined ,£l. with costs 75., for using obsceno language m a house in Martin Street. For committing a breach of his prohibition order James Robertson was fined 405.. with ■ costs; Allan William Beaslev pleaded guilty to a. charge of unlawfully using another person's bicycle, and was remanded for sentence. A fine of',€s, with 13s. costs, was tho penalty inflicted on Walter Russell Mangn for driving a motor-car on Muritai Road at an excessive snSed^ Luigi Fallini anil his wife, wfyi hart been 43 years in-Now Zealand and'rtd sent a son to the war. were convicted and discharged for failing to register as aliens, and Abraham Hackle, a Syrian, received the same lenient treatment.

A number of youths who failed to attend drill with the sth (Wellington l ) Regiinenfc were fined various sums up to ,tl.