MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court sittings to-day. Mary Jane Smythe, charged with being found drunk, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, default being fixed at seven days' imprisonment. A prohibition order was ordered to issue against defendant, who had- a long list of convictions for drunkenness. Four first offenders similarly charged were convicted and punished in varying amounts. As the result of a stand-up fight in a bar of the Royal Oak Hotel on Thursday evening, a door was damaged, and two men, Edward McGibbon and Herbert Hancy, pleaded guilty to having used threatening behaviour in the bar, and to having wilfully damaged the door. Each man on each charge was fined 20s, with the usual alternative, and ordered to pay 10s each towards the value of the door damaged. George Harris pleaded guilty to the theft of two pairs of boots valued at 30s, the property of someone unknown. Chief Detective Broberg asked that accused b*e remanded ;or sentence, to i allow of further enquiries being made. This was agreed to. In the Juvenile Court, two youths aged 15 and 13 years, were charged with damaging three gas meters and the theft of 2s, the property of the Wellington Gas ■ Company. Defendants pleaded guilty in each case. On each charge defendant- were convicted and discharged, '''the parents being ordered to j pay 5s towards repairing the damage to the meters, and to refund the money stolen. A fairly consistent drinker, John Mansfield, had his seventy-first conviction for drunkenness recorded at the Mount Cook Police Court to-day. He was fined 40s, with an option of one month's imprisonment. Frederick Kingham, convicted of insobriety, was deemed to be a habitual drunkard, and was sentenced to two months in gaol. Walter James Howell was fined 5s for drunkenness, and a first offender in the same category was fined 10s (the amount of his bail), as he failed to appear. Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., presided at the sitting.