MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
+ MASTERTON—FRIDAY. (Before Mr W. P. James, S.M.) Two first offenders were fined 5s each, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. Patrick Hamill was charged with having allowed a horse to stray on the railway line. Defendant, in pleading guilty, said his horse had got out of the paddock by some means and was knocked over and killed by a passing tra'n. The Magistrate imposed a nominal fine of 5s with 7s coats, in view of the loss that the defendant had already suffered. A double charge of having sold cigarettes to a lad under the age of 15 years on a Sunday was preferred against Yee Chong. Defendant pleaded not guilty, but after hearing the evidence of the boy, the Magistrate imposed a fine of 20s v/ith 7s costs to cover both offence?. The adjourned case in v hich Bertram Hastings was sued for the maintenance of his illegitimate child was called on for hearing, but was further adjourned until August 31st as certain enquiries concerning the defendant's whereabouts in June, 1906, had not yet been made.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8512, 17 August 1907, Page 6
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182MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8512, 17 August 1907, Page 6
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