MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1096, 20 January 1912, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

ANNUAL RETURNS.

The Clerk of the Court, Mr F. Woods, has supplied us with the following particulars of the business transacted at the local Magistrate’s Court tor the twelve months ended December 31st, 1911 : CRIMINAL. During the year the following criminal cases were heard: —Attempted rape 1, theft 4, drunkenness 24, breaches of the peace 2, threatening behaviour 4, obscene language 3, resisting the police 3, vagrancy 3, common assault 2, boys found in possession of firearms 2, selling firearms to children 1, furious riding 2, disturbing public meeting 2, applications for maintenance 5, disobedience of orders 6, found on licensed premises 5, obtaining liquor under age 1, applications for prohibition order 8, procuring liquor whilst prohibited 5, selling liquor to prohibited person 1, failing to register dogs 3, breach of borough bylaws 1. Eighty-seven of the above cases were against males, and one against a female. One case was dismissed, one committed for trial, and in the other 86 convictions were entered. Of the 86 in which convictions were entered, 57 were lined, two imprisoned in lieu of hues, four sentenced to imprisonment, one released under the First Offenders Probation Act, 15 orders made, and seven were discharged with a caution. CIVIL. The number of plaints issued was 249, and 221 cases were tried. The aggregate amount sued for was 1604 18s 2d, and the amount recovered ,£626 19s 6d.