THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16359, 2 November 1918, Page 3

THE COURTS.

SUPKE3IE COURT. | IX CHAMBERS. j (Beforo his Honour Mr Jusv.ce Hemman.) I Yesterday, in tlie case William Jciiin Roberts (Mr F. I). Sargent) v. Cbarlcs Leslie MeCrostic, or.d Jcnc3, McCrostie. Ltd. (.Mr l". Wildir.~, K.C.A a, summons for order lor security for costs, p'aintiiT whs ordered to find security to the amount of £230 to the satisfaction of the Registrar. proceedings to ■ v stayed until tho sccunty v.-as foiled. Leavo was granted to defendants to apply again should £-30 prove ir.eufticicnt: 01 this summons to bo costs in the cause. In tv Will in :u~on r Alnrts) v. Williamson (Mr S. G. Raymond, K.C.), in divorce, summons to sccuro wife's costs, an order was made thai security in tbo eum of i.>o bo found by respondent. A similar order v.'as made in respecu of a corresponding summons in ro Brown (Mr Alpers) v. Brown, in divorce. A notice of motion for removal of c-aveate was lodged by defendant in the oaso of Huston Curlett (Mr Sargent) v. Elizabeth A. Curlett (Mr Twyneham). Mr Sargent applied for an adjournment of the motion, but this wua refused. It was ordered that Huston Curlett should forthwith remove from the register boohs of tho Land Transfer Office all caveat® lodged by him affecting lands and mortgages of Mrs Curlett. Costs to defendant were allowed.

MAGISTERIAL. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) THEFT. Arthur Ryder (Mr Hunter) pleaded guilty to stealing six singlets, valued at 21s, the property of Thomas Durose. Accused was placed on probation for sis months, and aprohibition order issued against him. Ho was also ordered to refund Ss. BY-LAW BREACHES. Frank "Wilson was fined -06 and costs for driving a. motor vehicle over a street crossing at excessive speed. Alfred Whitta was fined 10s and costs for a similar offenoo, and Leslie. Herbert Stanley 20s and costs. F-or riding* a. motox-cyclo at a dangerous speed Kenneth L. Pratt was fined £3 and C °Leonard Hart. Albert Edward Hartshorn, Francis John Wilkineon, and Thomas \>il-| son, were each fined Is and coste for usiug motor vehicles without proper identification marks. Sub-Inspector Mullaney stated that it waa not generally rcoogniscd that motorists were required to have numbers ou tho front of their -vehicles, and these cases were brought as a warning to tho publio with regard to this matter. Thomas William Woodroffe, Peter Graham, John Edmund Hood, William Purtle, and John Lawrence Gunn were convicted and discharged on similar charges. For allowing ca-ttlc to trespass on the railway lina at Greenpark, F. Thompson, waa fined 20s and costs. Mrs E. A. Farmer was fined 10s and costs for selling cigarettes when slio was not legally entitled to do so. FACTORY ACT BREACHES. J. F. Burborough was fined 20s and costs for failing to keep a proper overtime book. Alexander Wildev, for failing to apply, for a permit before getting an employee to work overtimo, was fined 5s and costs. ■ DOMESTIC TROUBLE. Itlioda, Wilson (Mr A. J. Mallcy) proceeded against, James Wilson for exhibiting offensive writing, and asking that ho should bo bound ovor by sureties o£ the peace. Defendant was ordered to pay solicitors' fees and Court coata, and the case was adjourned until May Ist, oil tho understanding that if defendant further annoyed the complainant (liis wife) during that time, ho would bo ordered to find sureties of tho peace, and imprisoned if ho could not find them.