MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 140, 20 July 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, si'M.) DRUNKENNESS. J. M. Charles for drunkenness, was fined 10/-, with the alternative of 48 hours in gaol. Two first offenders were each fined 5/-. Charles Maek pleaded guilty to two charges of drunkenness and of using obscene language at Addington, Accused said he had been in charge of the Electrie Boardinghouse in Dunedin, but lately had been a fireman in the destructor. He was convicted and ordered to come up for "sentence when called upon. WAITED FOR HIM. > James Smith and Andrew Sommerville were charged with behaving in an offensive manner, whereby a breach of the peace was - occasioned;' Smith pleaded guilty, - but Sommerville -denied the charge. According to the police evidence both accused had been fighting for some time with no appreciable, spell. There was a crowd round them. Smith, according to one constable, had struck Sommerville first, but they were both "in a fighting attitude." I Sommerville gave evidence on oath. He said he was walking along Hereford Street when Smith came up and said: " You 're the man I Want for last Saturday night!" '' With that he struck out and bounced round me," said Sommerville. '' Did you hit hiin,'' asked the subiiSpector. "I hit something." "What do you think you hit?" "His face, I think," said Sommerville. . " According to Smith he had been waiting for Higgins, who was with Sommerville, for a month, because once near the clock tower he had tried to "hit a cobber of his with a bottle." He, Smith, had hit Sommerville, too. The charge against Sommerville was dismissed, but Smith was fined 40/-, in default 14 days. A NAVAL DESERTER. Winter Noel Le Vescointe pleaded guilty to having deserted from H.M.S. Pyramus. He was remanded to allow the police to get into communication with the warship so that Le Vescointe might be put on board. A BROKEN ORDER. R. T. Leatham (Mr Rowe) was charged with having broken the conditions of his prohibition order and was fined 20/-. DEFAULT CASES. Judgment was given for the plaintiff by default in each of the following cases:—E. W. Pidgeon and Co., Ltd. v. J. C. Fleming, £44 9/4; Rink Taxis, Ltd. v. Jeremiah Isherwood, £lO 8/6; Herbert S. Newman v. Henry J. Bradshaw, £1 19/-; Ernest Braid v. , Harry Lloyd, 11/-; Frank A. Cook, Ltd. v. Robert William Pool, £3 16/5; International Harvester Co. of N.Z., Ltd. v. Archibald Clark, £1 9/-; C. E. Andrews v. V. A. Dickson, £4 10/-; N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. v. A. Parsons, £3l 5/9;-H. Matson and Co. v. J. Borcoski, £2 6/-; Wardell Bros, and Co. v. H. H. Joblin, £5 2/11; S. Mangan v. Richard Henderson, £1;-J. Bridgman. v. Peter Hunt, £5 13/6; Co-operative Print Co. v. Mary Ann Vincent, £1 16/-,