MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2267, 8 July 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUBOH. Fbidat, July 8. [Before Messrs J. Ollivier, and B. Westenra/Esqs., J.P.'s] Drttnkbhkbss.—Thomas Upton was fined 10s for this offence. Vagbancy.—Thomas Murray was oharged with having no lawful visible means of support. He had been remanded on the Ist inst. to allow of the police making inquiries with a view of finding him work. The polioe stated that they had been unable to find him anything to do. He was again remanded till Monday next, that an application on his behalf might be made to the authorities of the Old Men's Home. Ba B. B. Habdib.—Tho case of this boy, who had been oonvicted several times of petty theft, tho last case being his stealing of zinc from Mr Sheerer, of Oxford Terrace, was remanded again until the application to license him out had boen heard by Mr Justice Johnston ; to be brought up again if the application should be refused. [The boy was afterwards taken before the Judge, who refused to deal with him until the proper forms were observ2d. He was consequently sent baok to Addington for the present.] LYTTELTON.

Fbiday, Jvly 8. [Before Joseph Beswick, Esq., B.M.] A Neglectful Pabbnt.—John Davis was charged with neglecting to contribute to the keep of his two children in the Industrial School. On the 14th of January of this year, an order had issued against the defendant to pay for the support of his two children. He had paid but £2 since, and was in arrears £l3 odd. Defendant said his pay was £6 per month on the stoamer Hawea. He had a wife to support. The Bench ordered him to pay £1 in a fortnight. Subsequently, the case was remanded to the 22ad instant. Opbnikg a Bab on Sttkday.—Balph Flunder, lioensee of the Albion Hotel, was oharged with keeping his house open during prohibited hours, namely, on Sunday morning last. Constable McClellan stated that he saw two men under the influence of drink come from off the premises. He found in the house two or three men sitting in the bar, neither of whom was a bona fide lodger or traveller. The defendant admitted he had offended in keeping tho bar open, but he was cleaning it out when tho men entered. It was a temporary building he occupied while the hotel proper was building, and it was a most inoonvenient place to clean up and keep tidy. The Bench spoke in strong terms of the practice of Sunday trading, and imposed a fine of £5. Tbmpobaby Tbanseebs. —W. H. J. Simmons, licensee of the Lyttelton Hotel, applied for a temporary transfer of his license to Mary Moynibam. There was no objeotion on the part of the police. The Magistrate asked whether Mrs Moyniham had not been before the Court before. He had, he thought, some recollection of a case coming before him in which she had appeared as licensee of another hotel. Mrs Moyniham replied that she had been over five years in business, and upon no occasion had a charge been preferred against her- or the house she conducted. The polioe corroborated this, and stated that it was as a witness before the Court that His Worship was referring to. They gave the intending new licensee an excellent character as keeper of the Crown Hotel, which aho was now relinquishing. The Bench congratulated her upon the statements made in her favour by the police and granted the transfer. The license of the Crown Hotel was transferred from Mrs Moynihan to Alexander Murray.