MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

The sitting of the Magistrate's Court this morning was presided over by Mr. F. V Frazer, S.M. , Agnes Campion, who had been arrested for drunkenness while tho subject of a prohibition order, was fined £3, with the alternative of twenty-one days' imprisonment. David Kelly, a second offender, was fined ss, with the alternative of twenty-four hours' detention. John Wynn, who pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and thereby broken his prohibition order, was fined £2, or twentyone days' imprisonment. William Henry Mackay, charged with drunkenness and committing a nuisance in Taranaki-street, was fined £2, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. In addition to a charge of drunkenness, Teofils Horacio Acosta was charged with the theft of an overcoat, valued at £2 10s, the propertyof C. C. Cottrell. He was remanded until Wednesday. Ten first-offending inebriates were dealt with in the usual manner. Tua Hine, a Maori soldier, was charged with having assaulted John Patrick Walsh on Saturday, at ' the Thorndon Railway Station. Turoa Himiona was charged that,on the same day he assault-, ed George Hare, storeman at the station, and also with having used obscene language. He pleaded guilty. Both defendants were under the influence of drink at the time and kicked up a row at the luggage department while waiting for the train to take them north after returning from the front. Hine was fined £1, and Himiona was fined £2. I John Albert Payne, who appeared, in uniform, was charged with having failed !to provide his wife with adequate maintenance. Mrs. Payne said she was married to defendant on 11th March last, and since then defendant, who was not living with her, had failed to provide her with means of support. She wasliving with her mother. In answer to the Bench, defendant said he was doing nothing; he was in receipt of a pension—£4' 6s 8d a month. He had been discharged, and there was no reason for his wearing uniform. He was not able to do any work. To Mr. C. W. Tringham, who appeared for complainant, defendant said he had been with a circus, but he denied that he had been dealing in whisky with the Maoris or that he was travelling with a female j member of tho circus troupe. His Worship granted an order for separation, and made an order for the payment oE £1 a | week, with £1 Is costs.