THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15606, 2 June 1916, Page 2

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL.

(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) DRCX KEN NESS.

Three offenders, two men and a noman, wore eai-h fined os or 24 hours" imprisonment: a fourth was convicted and discharged, and a prohibition order issued against him at his own request. 3>avid Douglas Pollock, who appeared on remand on a charge of having been found helplessly drunk, was convicted and discharged. - Christina Lawson. with 183 convictions, was convicted or drunkenness Aldington' Bradwcll, a statntorv third offender, was lined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment. A TRIPLE CHARGE. Alexander Fleming was charged with (a) drunkenness in Armagh street, (b) oWccne language in Armagh street, and (e) wilfully damaging a cell l;iu valued at 12s (id, the property of the New Zealand Government-. On the obscene language cnargo, he was fined 00s, or one month s imprisonment : on the drunkenness charge he was convicted and discharged, and at his own request a prohibition order was H-ucd against him, and he was ordered to make good the damage to the cell can. IDLE AND D 1 BORDERL\. ' Christina Miils appeared on a charge of drunkenness in Brougham street. She was also charged with being ail idle and disorderly person, Jia\ing insufficient lawful means of support. On the first charge she was convicted, and on the second sentenced to three | months' ininiisonnicnt. i CIVIL BUSINESS, i Judgment for the plaintiff by de- | fault was <;iv*cu in each oi the following cases: —New Zealand l'armei's Cooperative Association, Ltd. v. David Sol'ton, £17 12s 7d; "VV. L. Clark v. R. E. Stanley, £o os; T. Hopkins v. Frank IViarquet, £i) 15s 3d; Uraliam. "Wiisou and SuieLue v. Geoige Cameion,'£2 2s od; i. y* Johnston v. William Edlin, £-1 13s ("Ij J. Harrison and Co. v. Albert E-award Snowdon, costs only; Browne and Heaton v. David 31. Loughlan, £1 7s Gd; J and A. W Munnings v. "William James McAulay. £4 8 S »d; Munro and Hickenbottom v. James Brown, £G Is; John 31. Mitchell v. Ernest Craw, £1 2s Gd ; Andrews, Batv and Co., Ltd. v. Arthur Bull. £12 1.1s; A. Kennedy v. Christian Cross, £1 13s 7d ; Canterbury Cv-le Workers' Union v. J. Wilroughby, £2 7s: Frederick iS'.adon and Sons v - AV. MeChire, £0 19 s Gd: International Harvester Co. v. R. A. Sneers, £8 13s 9d; Booth, Maednnalc! and Co., Ltd., v. Maurico liope, £7 13s Cd. LYTTELTON. (Before Messrs L. A. Stringer and W. C. Cleary, J.P.'s. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Henry Horwood, on a charge of using obscene language was fined 40s, or in default, 14 days' imprisonment. A SHARE TRANSACTION. Judgment was delivered at Wellington on Tuesday by his Honour Mr Justico Hosking, in the case of Albert Sanderson Collins, clerk,- of Wellington, and P. Martyn Hume, sharebroker, Wellington, and Rossmoro C. Wilson, sheep farmer, Cheviot. It was a deal in shares. Humo had 600 Westport-Stockton Coal Company share* placed in his hands for sale,, and the plaintiff Collins instructed his broker to buy them. The sold note described the shaies as preference ones, but the bought ones did' not specialise - the class of shares, the inference being, in the opinion of his Honour, that ordinary shares were those bought. -Mr Collins knew nothing of preferenceshares. The shares bought and signed for were ordinary shares, although a clerk who. presented the transfer to plaintiff for signature said they were preference shares. Hume ivas not responsible for such representation, in his Honour's judgment. Plaintiff did not see the sold, note until the transaction was completed, but was informed later'that it was preference shares that Hume had to sell, and claimed to be given preference instead of ordinary shares. The plaintiff accepted the offer of the shares by signing the contract and completing the purchase, and Hume was not responsible for the representation made by plaintiff's broker's clerk. The contract was for ordinary or preference shares. The appeal was dismissed with costs to each defendant amounting to £10. Mr A. W. Blair represented the plaintiff at the hearing: Mr T. Young appeared for Hume, and Mr .It. Kennedy for Wilson. There was no caSe as against Wilson.