MAGISTERIAL?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2314, 6 October 1908, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL?

QUARTERLY RETURNS

Tlie following is tho official return of tho business dealt with at- the Magistrate's Court in Gisborne for the quarter ending ScDtombor 30: -CRIMINAL. Persons taken into custody, summoned, or apprehended: .Males 227, females 11; discharged, males 7, females 2; dismissed on merits, males 5; committed for trial or sentcnco, j males 9; numbers summarily- convic- | tod, males 306, females 9 ; linoSj males -34, females 3; imprisonment in lieu - of lino or surety', m iles 113, females '2; peremptory imprisonment, males I 22, females 1 ; bound over, males 3; j released under First Offenders’ Proj bulion Act, males 1; orders made, | malos 31, females 3; convicted and discharged with . caution, males 2. Amount of criminal fees paid in stamps, £25 15s, fines £154 11s; total £IBO ou. CIVIL. Number of cases heard by (Stipendiary Alagistrate, who presided over 58 sittings, DG;; number heard by Justices, who presided over 13 sittings, 24; total, 120. W Aggregate amount sued for, £2246 13s 8d; aggregate amount recovered ,£I7OO 2s 3d ;plaints entered, 206; distress warrants issued, 10; judgment summonses, 2; warrants of commital issued, 4; summonses and other processes served within two miles, 164, over two miles 82; distress warrants executed within two miles 11, over two miles 2; warrants of committal executed, 1. Amount of civic fees paid in stamps, £2ll 2s ; amount of licensing fees, £6. Old ago pensions granted, 15; Refused, 1; pending, 2. The following is the statement of all fees, fines, and penalties-payable to local bodies: —Cook County Council : Breach of wheel tyres by-law, 7 cases, amount £l2. Borough Council: Permitting nuisance, 1 case, £1; leading horse on footpath, 1 case, 10s; driving quickly round corners, 2 cases, £1 10s; cycling on footpath, 2 cases, £1 ss; fee on pawnbrokers’ license, 1 case, £lO. On the whole, the criminal, list, although there is an increase in some offences, shows a slight decrease in crime compared with last quarter. Included in the above number of convictions (215) there were 99 for drunkenness, as compared with 105 for last quarter, and 118 for the first quarter in this year. There was also a decrease in thefts, the number this quarter being 9, as against 19 the • previous three months. For breaking and entering, this term there were 7 cases, whereas -last quarter there were none. Three convictions were recorded for disorderly behavior while drunk, as against 5 hast quarter. Duriaag tlie quarter 29 prohibition orders were granted, including 16 upon the persons’ own applicatkm. The remainder of tlie number of convictions included those for offences such as resisting the police , obscene language, threatening and abusive -language, procuring liquor, attempted suicide, etc.