MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7265, 26 January 1889, Page 6

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, January £6. [Before C. Whitefoord, Esq., RJI.}

Alleged Forgery and Uttering.— Frederick Clapham was charged with these offences in the following cases:—A cheque for £20, signed F. Fry, uttered to A. J. White on January 22nd; a cheque for £20, signed F. Fry, uttered to Thos. Lascelles on January 23rd; a cheque for £15, signed F. Fry, uttered to J. D. Phillips on January 23rd; and a cheque for £6, signed by F. Fry, uttered to C. Klingenstein on January 24th, all drawn on the Colonial Bank of New Zealand. Detective O'Connor stated that the prisoner, who had been a servant at Fry's Jollies Pass Hotel, came to town and put about the forged cheques, buying goods and getting id> each case some cash in change. On the application of the police the accused was remanded for one week, bail being fixed at one surety in £100 in each case.

Stealing a Hand-cart.—William Cody alias D. Cullerton, who has a long list of previous convictions recorded against him, and who is already undergoing a sentence of twelve months imprisonment for stealing tools, was charged with the larceny as a bailee of a hand-cart, valued at £5, the property of John Soanes, of Papanui road. The evidence was that, on November 10th, the prisoner hired the cart, saying he wanted to move some grass. Be then took it to a dealer in second-hand goods, named Watkins, and offered it for sale. Watkins declined to purchase it, but afterwards lent him a few shillings on it, and finally sold it for £2 ss. The prisoner now said that he bought the cart from the prosecutor for £3, and was to pay for it in instalments. He gave it as security to Watkins, intending to redeem it. He was ordered to be imprisoned for one month, to commence when his former sentence had expired. Civil. Casks.—Williams v Scott, claim £11 las for damages by trespass of pigs on plaintiff's lana. Mr Stringer for plaintiff, Mr Loughrey for defendant. The parties are neighbors on Fisherman's Flat, at Sumner. and it appeared that defendant's Sige had on various occasions in October, Foyeniber, and December last broken into plaintiffs poultry run, eating the fowl feed and sometimes young birds. Plaintiffs man had noted and booked the incursions, but plaintiff in all the time named had not taken any steps to restrain the trespass. Mr Whitefoord, after commenting on the unneighborly behaviour of plaintiff in allowing damages to accumulate, gave him judgment for £5 with costs. Smart and Son v Newman, claim £5 5s for asphalting garden paths. Mr Stringer appeared for the defendant, for whom judgment was given, without costs. Wilson and Sons vLegg, claim £15s, balance due on the purchase of a horse; judgment for plaintiffs. Judgments went for plaintiffs by default with costs in Mitchell v McCarthy, £4 19s 6d, and Wilson and Sons t Marks, £7 3s 7d. I