THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17707, 8 March 1923, Page 5

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. CIVIL SESSIONS. (Before big Honour Mr Justice Adams.) A LAND CASE. The case in which Kenneth Mcintosh, • sheep farmer, sued Herbert Henry Cook, land agent, Christchurch. and Donald ilcln- ; tosn, dairy farmer, Auckland, for £ll6O lis W was continued yesterday. Mr 0. T. J. Alpers, with him Mr J. E. uumngham, appeared for the plaintiff and •Mr J H. Upham for the defendant. Evidence for the defence was heard and the case was further adjourned till this morning. MAGISTERIAL. "WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) \ first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. An elderly man, v.no entered the box in a dazed manner, and murmured that he had never been in Court before, was remanded for a week for medical treatment. FALSE NAME. Hugh Kennedy Cowan was fined 20s and costs (or having given a false name and address to the Sergeant who found him on licensed premises after hours. BREACH OF AKAIS ACT. Thomas William Edlin pleaded not guilty to charges of having obtained possession oi a. firearm otherwise than with a permit, and to having had it in his possession for longer than seven days, without registering it. Uelendant, m . evidence, said he was a motor engineer. The rifle had been brought in by a man he did not know, to be repaired. Three weeks after it was brought ut, the owner gave him the gun, and after ml > ll * lon <? to re g»tPr it. «. a said that according to i UIO1 0 ealer waß the on 'y one who could hold a firearm without it being re- [ giatered for a longer period than seven da.v«. Xhe circumstances in the case were rather peculiar, as the rifle had been left for repairs. Defendant was not to blame as the weapon did not belong to him. He would be convicted without penalty on each charge. The rifle would be forfeit. LICENSEE FINED. William Charles Evans (Mr W. J. Hunter) p.*aded guilty to a charge that on January 31st he, being the licensee of the Wellington Hotel, exposed liquor for sale after hours. Percival Inder was charged with having been found on the premises after hours. Sub-Inspector Simpson said that at 9.25 p.m. on the night of January 31et, two men were seen to go into the bar. The door was left slightly open. The licensee and Inder were found in the bai with liquor before them. Mr Hunter said it was Evans' first appearance in Court. He had treated Inder to a drink. The Magistrate said he thought that Evans had been personally trading after hours.hut as it was a first offence, he would not endorse the license. Evans would be fined £5 and oosta. Inder was fined 20s nnd costs. AFTER HOUES. William Alfred Cox, . for having been found on the licensed premises of the Wellington Hotel after hours, was fined 20s and costs. Ernest le Comte and John Alexander Tuft, ■who wesre found, after hours, on the premises of the Eolleston Hotel, were each fined 20s and costs. CRUELTY TO A HEIFER. Lawrence Taylor (Mr W. R. Lascelles) pleaded not guilty to a charge of having cruelly ill-treated a heifer. Mr W. J. Hunter, who appeared for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the offence had taken place on January Slst. Taylor had placed ft rope round the animal's horns and had started to pull it along, meantime belabouring it on the face with a whip. His wife had helped by beating it with a stick. They took it along a blind road, where it felldown and groaned. It lay there bleeding from the face. Mr Lascelles said the animal was a pet calf, and that it was troublesome when it had to be taken away. Defendant wafl a drover with many years' experience. There hadi been no unnecessary cruelty. The Magistrate said he believed that defendant had cruelly beaten the calf. -He would be fined 40s and costs. A SERIOUS OFFENCE.

Lawson Frederick Braddtng, a young man (Mr J!. D. Batchelor) appeared on two charges of having obscenely exposed self. He was convicted and sentence was postponed until March 9th. ; IN OTHER PLACES. CHARGES AGAINST THREE YOUNG MEN. (PBXSS ASSOCIATION TILKOBAIf.) WELLINGTON, March ?. Three young men, Henry Stephen Gradwell, John Ryan, and Charles Horace Sevwright Barry, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Gradwell was charged with breaking and entering the premises o* the Dunlop Rubber Co., and stealing four motor tyres, and the other two were each charged with receiving a roll of tweed stolen from Milligan and Co. All three we..- remanded for one week. Gradwell applied for bail, but this was opposed by the Chief Detective, who stated that other- charges, involving' about £7OO, were pending. Bail was granted the other two accused.