MAGISTERIAL

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16699, 6 December 1919, Page 6

MAGISTERIAL

I (Before Mr V. G. Day, SJJ.) DIUTXKE>CXESS. Orw first offender was fined ss, ia default '-t hours' imprisonment. I l>aniol MoCorkindalo waa chargod _ with [ drunkenness and with wilfully damaging a ■ door. vahiod at 10s, Uk> property of Jamea | CowcU. Ho was con vie ted awd fined 10a for I drunkenness, but was discharged on the j chargo of wilfully damjiging property, as it ' was ehown that lio stumbled ugiinßt tho j door in hi» drunken conditkm. i KEMANDED. 1 Cyril Lcvria "Witholl pleaded guilty to ft charge of stealing, at Wellington, on July 22nd, £10 10s in money and a. pair of kid gloves, tho property of Sydney Williams. Va Sub-luspector ilullaney'o application a < , lem and vaa granted till this morning. I THEFT. ' John James Jaccson. alias Jceeph Michael Davidson (Mr C. S. Tboma«), pleaded guilty to iv chargu of having stolen IGSib of lead, wilued at XI 13s, the property of Taylor and Oakley. Detective-Servant Connolly stated that tho lead liiid been stolen in June. 1913, and had been fold to a dealer for £1 St. Aocuasd hjii only recently returned to Christciiurch froui tuu war. Accused was convicted and ordered to pay XI 6s to the dt-uier, an the lead had been returned to llcmts Taylor aad Oakley. CRUELTY TO OPOSSUM. On the information of David James 'White, Inspector of tho Society for tho Prevention o: Cruelty to Animals, John Fuller and Leonard James Fuller wore charged with cr.why to an opossum. Mr A, S. Tayior, for tho defendants, pleaded not guiitv. Mr VT. J. llur.tcr, who appeared for the Society, said that the opossum had been chained up at the roar ot defendant's shop in Sydenham with one of its legs broken, and kinging by a pieco of skin. Mr Taylor said that tho cpoMum. with a young 000 in its poach, had been trapped at Konnedy's Bush. Leonard Fuller, who brought the opossum into town, had bandagei up tho iej urd had treated it well. Mr Hunter said tho Society did r.ot ask for a penalty. Tho case was only brought en « a warning to ctLcia.

Leonard David Fuller was convicted, tad ordered to pay £3 12s co»la BY-LAW CASES. Charles H. Young was fined Ss for cycling on a footpath, ami for driving a vehicle on a footpath Alfred Robert Bruno Murray wa* ordered to pay 14s and costs. For driving motor-cars negligently or in a manner dangerous to tho public, EUis Martin and Samuel Halligan wero each fined XJ and costs, and Gcorgo Soolt, Victor Smith, and Herbert FriokloUm each £1 and costs. C. H. Ensor wa» fined 10s and costs for using a motor not bearing a registration mark, ar.d £1 and costs for speeding on the North road. , , , , , For speeding on the North road tho following fines were imposedJkhk l Alien, Dennis Sidwil], Ernest Lancelot, Henry Brown, Alfred Raymond Blank. Lorn a Bean, IT. A. Burgin, Gerald Wni. Gerald, George A. Green, Reginald J. Harrison. Willi Mil Nnevo, Thomas. H. Ranger, Leonard E. Smart, Charles Williamson, and James Allison, each jCI and cost*; Kdwin Wilding 10# and ooets. and Albert E. Wlittaker was convicted and ordered to pay coots. Georgo Ross, for driving horses not under proper control, was Hood to &nd costs. CIVIL, CASE. (Before Mr S. E. McCarthy.) The hearing of evidence was oontbued yesterday in the adjourned case, Percy Gearzo Watfer (Mr T. S. Doers) v. Adding; ton Iran Roilor Mills, Ltd. (Mr lr. S. Wilding), claim £M 10s 6d commkaion for salo» of iron maoo by plaintitl m bohalf of defendant company. The defonco was that tho claim for commission waj *sot in accordance with tho terms of tho contract entered into between plaintiff and defendant, company. His Worship reservod his decision. ASHBURTON. (Before Mr W. R. McKeao, tS.M.) Tho Wakanui Road Board (Mr Buchanan) proceeded against Samuel C. Pilhrow ana Herbert Pilbrow (Mr Orbell) for failing to dean goiao from off the sidm of a public rood. A conviction wso entered, and £2 2« costs allowed against Samuel C. PiHwow, information Herbert Pilhrow withdrawn. In a caa» against J. P. Murphy, *i Tunarit (Mr Campbell), charged with exceeding tbo present epocd limit of tea miles 'an hour with a motor in crossing tho A»thburtor> traffic bridge (a •new by-law increasinj; the speed limit io fifteen miles an hour comos into force on January let), hit* Honour K aTO a lengthy written judgment on tho (juestion j of « liinft of tax miles an hour beißg _unI naiiiirnTiln for a motor-car to bo allowed to I travel across the bridge. -o reviewed tho I evidence which bad been given, in which the County Council traffic inspector stated thai he did not prosecuto drivers tof motor-cars unlets they travelled at a speed cxceedir.gj twenty miles, and that very few indeed kept to the prooont limit of ten miles an hour* It. was admitted, that tho traffic inspector was always very impartial in lua prosecutions, but Mr Oampboll. in defending (ho cam against J. 7. Murphy, had asked that the present by-law bo ruled unreasonable. His worship said it seemed to fcim that the local authorities flreoogniscd that a speed limit of ten miles an hour wis uoreaeonable* cepcchily as they intended to alter it to fifteen miles on hcrar. Such a by-law should now be regarded as a dead letter, and ho ruled that a speed limit of only ten biiles an hour was unreasonable. fie would •thore-i fore dismiss the information, but twitboat costs against the inspector. In dismissing a case against Robert Canick. of Chriatchurrh, charged with driving a motor-car witliin tbo borough at a greater speed than ten miles au hour, tho Magistrate said ho was not prepared at present to rule that this by-law was unreason-i able, hut the Borough Council might veil take into consideration tho amending of tbo by-law, also of giving greatrr latifode fa regard to speed limits jlocg thoroughfares away from tbo main street*.