IN THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9, 8 May 1912, Page 5

IN THE COURTS.

(Per Press Association.) Waihi, May 7. A number of cases of refusing tc register and attend drills came before the Police Court this morning. Finer of £2 and costs were imposed in each case. Six cadets were charged wit!, insubordination at drill and’convicted and ordered to pay the costs. Win. Harris, said to be from Christchurch, was fined £5 for assaulting a cadet while a parade was in progress. He refused to pay the fine, and was sentenced to thirty days’ hard labour in default. The prisoner was sent to gaol. Wellington, May 7. At the Supremo Court to-day James Henry Hope was convicted of having illegally sold beer. Sentence was deleted. Arthur Joseph Wicks, charged with indecently assaulting a girl aged fourteen years and eight months, one of his pupils, at Ids residence, was found guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Sentence was deferred. Timaru, May 7. At the Magistrate’s Court at Geraldine to-day, Bernard Kennedy, a farm labourer, was charged with selling beer without a license at Mayfield, within the Ashburton no-license district. The police led evidence of complaints about young men being made drunk at accused’s place, and of the finding there of two men under the influence of drink. They found one 18-gallon keg of beer tapped and another untapped; also two empty 10gallon kegs. Defendant stated that he made a plant and brewed the beer himself on the premises, filling the four kegs. He denied having sold any. This was his first .brew at Mayfield. A Government analyst reported that a sample of the beer contaiiikl 5.6 per cent, of spirit. The Magistrate convicted accused and fined him £SO, giving him <a , fortnight to, raise the money. c) > r ■ tell ; • —TTih'T” ;! I :