MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15335, 20 July 1915, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL.

(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders, convicted ox drunkenness, were each fined 6s, or 24 hoars' imprisonment; three first offenders, who wero found drunk on the railway station platform, wero mulcted in 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment; Dominic Heaphy. a second offender, obtained the. same penalty, and another inebriate was convicted and discharged on consenting to th© issue of a prohibition order. ALLEGED THEFT AND ASSAULT. AVm. Wilson Tavlor was remanded on a charge of assaulting and robbing one C. Best in Christchurch on the 16th inst. It -ins alleged that accused had stolen notes to the value of £3 and jewellery to the value of £3 10s, a total of £(j 10s. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default i with costs was given in each of the following case*.: Dainties. Ltd., v. J. O'Sullivan. £2 lis; City' Council v. Julia Eva Tonge, £12 lis 7d; H. T. D. Acland v. Aif red Avery. £2 "is; Booth, Macdonald and Co." Ltd.. v. W. Mills, £5 16s; Guilleitno and Co. v. Elizabeth Madden IS 4 S lOd; A. G. Healing and Co. v. W. T. Bastin, £8 8s od. CLAIM ON A BILL OF SALE. T. H. Harker (Mr Mosley) v. Alex. Johnston -(Mr Acland) claimed for interest accruing on a bill 'of salo granted by a partner of tho defendants, who. it was alleged, had accepted liability. After hearing argument, the plaintiff was non-suited. A FENCING DISPUTE. F. K. Hunt (Mr M. J. Grcsson) v. S. C. Thompson, claim £19 lis for the erection of a fence round a property at New Brighton, which, it was alleged, should have been erected by defendant under the terms of the contract. Defendant admitted his liability to erect the fence, but alleged that the price paid by Hunt for the work was excessive. Defendant counterclaimed for £38 10s, being moneys alleged to be guaranteed on a mortgage, and for £1 worth of timber. On the fencing claim judgment was given for the plaintiff for £17 17s and o_)sts, and also on the counter-claim. A SLAUGHTERED HORSE. J. E. Le Breton (Mr Thomas) v. E. R. Johnson (Mr Wright) claim £17 for tho value of a horse which it was alleged was wrongfully destroyed by defendant. The defouco was that the horse had been destroyed by virtue of an order given for its destruction by a Justice of the Peace, and that tho plaintiff had no remedy unless the order of tho Justice of the Peace was quashed by an appeal to tho Supreme Court. The-Magistrate said that under the circumstances the Court had no jurisdiction, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. A MOTOR DISPUTE. Turnbull and Jones (Mr Weston) claimed from J. B. Clarkson (Mr Alners) the sum of £3 ls 6d for work done in connexion with the installing o f a lighting set in a motor-car. Judgment was given for the defendant, with costs, the Court holding that the work had been done without sufficient authorisation from the defendant.