MAGISTRTE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10281, 16 May 1919, Page 7

MAGISTRTE'S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES.

Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court.

Patrick Leahy, for casting offensive ' matter on the footpath in Manners street, was hned £6, in default to be imprisoned for a month.

John McLean." who 1 did not appear, 'was charged with, 'drunkenness and • with refusing to quit licensed premises. He 'was convicted, and had hi bail of ,'£2 10s estreated. - - ■

Jimmy Gavini, a Hindu, who pleaded guilty to insobriety and the use of obscene language, was convicted and discharged on the first count, and fined £2, in default seven days, on the second.

, Daniel Hill, twenty-one years of age, pleaded guilty to receiving goods I'at Hawera valued at filT'Ts'fd;' and failing to account tor iaem''to : Bei , kej> I ley (Jarke, manufacturwrs' agent' and importer, Wellington, thereby com.' milting theft. Deteotive-bergeant Rawle said that when he interviewed ■ the,accused ho stated he had procured employment with tho object or paying back tho money. Cbief-Deteotive Boddam said Hill was a canvasser for Berkeley Clarke, and approximately £3O -worth of goods was not accounted ' for. Siuce the information nad been laid tho defendant' had made full Tlje Ji ߣcused had been vex^'''iir'Wfth^' l 4fl%eflifa, and hid riot yet ..fujiy, The magistrate said'"lie did v iug-u, young niajj to jai.l i first offence, and would not dp it -could bo avoided. "It was possible that an attack of influenza had had an unnerving effect on the accused for the time being, and had loosened his moral, control. Tho court did. into - consideration the'fact thai restitution had . been made. The defendant would be admitted to probation, but the term would be fairly long in case he had a recurrence of influenza. HilJ was admitted to probation for tww years, and during that period is to be under the control of the probation officer. - i CIVIL OASES. In tho following undefended civil cases judgment was given for plaintiff by default:—Commeroial AgenoVp Ltd., and Briscoe and Co., Ltd., v 7 Thomas'" ''Arthur Hardie, £6 15s 6d, costs' £1 "Ss ~6d"; same v. William Southim, 12s,'costs only. , ,