THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 4

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. CIVIL SITTINGS. ; A civ:■ silting: of th? Supreme Court w;il jbe held on .^onaay. wnfn Mr Justice ItsiKl i will preside. i ' Tha case of Morgan and others v. "U j and others has bee" <iri.ntieiy set down for | hearing- or, Mor.dsv. Otlicr tentative iixiures | treie n;;uH vestcrcav. i ! MAGISTERIAL. I i FRIDAY. | v ße."ors Mr 'Wyrc-n TTiison. S.M.''. • DRUNKENNESS, j Ti.i Srst offenders were each fitted c#-, :a i default '2l hours' imprisonment. ! BY-LAW CASES, i For riding a- mo'or-cycle f-t night withont a> light-. Stewart William ilinson was fined i 2Cs without costs. For a eimi'ar offeree Daniel Francis Hector Mcßonaid,' a youth, j was fined 10s. ; For allowing a chimney to catc-li fire Henry Digby wa3 fined ts. j For leaving a. iaotor-<;!:' unattended in I Cambridge terrace without a. light, Albert | B. Gibson was fined 10a and oosts. i Henry S. Shac.xiock, fcr driving a car | without having obtained a certificate of I ability, was fined iCs and costs, j For leaving a car unattended in Cathedral I square, for longer than fifteen minute?, KanI driH H. Bt;rdon ws.9 fined 53 and costs, j For riding a motor-cyi'.e on a- footpath in Lin wood, John Coventry was fined 10s and I costs. I For leaving an unligh'ed motor-car in a. j street-, L. R. Steel was fined 10s ahd costs. 1 For cycling at night witbeut a light Tl. J. ] Tebb was fined -.Ms and costs. 1 DANGEROUS DRIVING. William George Bowron pleaded guilty to having driven a nictor-car in a manner dangerous to the public. Senior-Sergeant F. Lewin said defendant was going south dowy Manchester street on ■September 3rd, and when he turned into Tuam street, he collided with a youth on a bicycle. He was driving rapidly, and did not- take the corner properly. Defendant had pa'd for all damage. The Magistrate said it was one of those reprehensible mishaps which were bound to occur when peop-!o drove at a high spaed over a- crossing. Defendant waa fined £5 and costs. NEGLIGENT MOTORIST. Alfred L. Sutton was charged with driving a motor-car in a negligent manner. Jlr F. S. Dacre appeared for defendant. Senior-Sergeant Lewin said that on August '24 th defendant had collided at the corner of Worcester street and Stanmore road with a cyclist who had been thrown oil his bicycle and injured. Counsel for defendant said that his client was of a very nervous temperament. Ho did not see the cyclist and had n<o idea that the accident had occurred until ha made enquiries. Defendant said ho had had a narrow escape irom a collision when crossing Fitzgerald avenue, and this rather unnerved him. When he fit nick a cyc.ist at Stanmore road, he heard the crash but d : d not know that h-5 had run the man down. Ho thought someone else -had had an accident and that he, defendant, had struck tho cycle Jyir.g on the road. Evidence was given by two bystanders The Magistrate said he found it impossibla to believe what defendant had told him. He Was certainly driving in a, negligent manner and the accident had been the result. Defendant was convicted and fined £5 and costs. MILITARY DEFAULTERS. Tho following military defaulters were dealt with for failing to attend drill:— A. W. Baldwin was fined 10s and costs on each of two charges of net attending drill Harold William Bayliss, convicted without penalty; Frederick James Bennett, ordered to pay 2Se costs; Harry John Bennett, ordered to pay 7st costs; \\m. Percy Edward "Byron, .fined 10s and costs on each of two charges; Joseph-Campbell, 10s and costs on each cf three charges; H. N. A. Brown, ordered to pay ccsta; Cyril Clarke, ordered to pay costs on each oi three charges; Baden T. Cockburn, 10s on each of three charges; Leo. Ccffey, 10s; L. J. C. Collins, 2Ub and costs on each of two counts; 3£aunce Cunningham, 40s and costs on each of two charges; C. W. K. Dart, costs 7s on each of {wo charges, -S. J. Darragh, 20s end costs on two charges; J. C. Davies, convicted and discharged; A. Dearslty, 10s and costs, on one charge, and ordered to' pay costs on a second charge; H. E. Field, ordered to pa;, costs 7s en each of two informations; J . A. Fraser, 10s on first charge, and costs 7s on second; L. C.' Frost, 30a and costs on each of two charges; D. A. Galvin, _to pay costa (7a) on each of two charges; R. Geddes, 20s and costs on each of two counts; 1. bUroy,. 20s • and costs on two counts; 1. w. Glover, 103 and costs on ono charge, and costs (7s) on another; R. Glubb, 10s and costs on each of two informations; J. W■ Gourdie, costs (7s) on each of two counts, Albert Graham, 20s and costs on one information, and to pay costs on second charge; Hay Grant, • ordered to pay costs; William A. Lagan, 20s and costs on two counts; \S m. Langbein, costs on each of two counts; Frederick J. Lingaid, 40s and cost 3 on each of two informations; Joseph P. Madden, 10s and costs on one information, and convicted without penalty on a second; S. F. Muff was orde:<ed to pay costs (7s) on one information, and waa convicted and discharged on ths Becond; John W. Murray, convicted and fined 20s and costs; A. S. McCaffrey, cider&i to pr.y costs on on© charge, and convicted and discharged on a second;.C. McCausland, fined 10s and costs on each of two charges; Ernest G. McKay, fined 10s and costs on each of two informations; John McMillan, ordered to pay costs (7s) on each of two -Informations; John R. Newton, fined 10s and, costs; F. J. P< inter, fined 20s and costs; Harold Petheram, fined 20« and costs on each cf three informations; Ernest William Phelps, fined 10=» and costs; Jame-s Phillipsun, fined 10s and costs; U. V. Smith, ordered to pay costs (7s" on two charges; Allan Stanton, who had six previous convictions, was fined £5 on one charg-a, and ordered to pay costs on a further cennt; W. P. Sutherland waa fined 10s on one charge, and ordered to pay costs on a further info mutation; Douglas Ward waa. fined 20s and costs on one charge, arid ordered to nay Co3ts cm a second; Reginald Ward was fined 20s and' costs on each of two charges; A P. Westwood was fined 10s and costs; James Whiteside was fined 10s and costs; R. In*. Andcv&on was ordered to pay costs on two counts; R. H. Fenton was ordered to par coats (7s). .... . , N. H. Beecroft, for failing to register, was ordered to pay ids and costs.

ashburton. FRIDAY. {Before ilr E. D. Moslev, S.M.) Bvroa iiayuock, aged 76 years, who had befcii wanaei'ing in tuo jVUytioict district, was committed '„o lue i.'auran b a Ola Men s Home. Un si charge ox stealing on or aoout December Itttu, ly-'3, at uunccun, an overcoat vaiued at £'lo, tlie property of William hrazsr,- Arthur James Obom was remanded to appear at DunecUn on Uctcber Flemming was convicted and discharged 'or evcJing on tho footpath. J. li. Marshall was convicted and fined 1203 fox- exceeding the o'Tjeed limit oil a* motor-eye!*!. Judgment by default ior the amount claimed with costs, was entered in R. McClay v. 'g. McCormick lAshburton), £lO. _ On a 'udgnienfc summons G. Allfrey was ordered to pay £3 6a 6d forthwith to the Aiuburton Mail and Guardian Co., in default four days in Paparua prison. T. J. Tilson, farmer, 01 Hinds (Mr G-. zi. Buchanan), proceeded against his sister, Lsahel Ma"gie Jierry, oi Httds (ilr A. K. Horth) for the sum of £AB 10a, being valuo of furniture. belonging to pkintifi left in defppdTt's house, and destroyed by fire on January 26th, 1922. Plaintiff was nor.-suited without farmer, of Hinds (Mr G. H. Buciiaran), sought to recover from George Berry . farmer also of Hmds (il?. A. a. the sum of £5 Is, representing the va'ue of one ion of coal delivered £2 6s, and goods wrongfully detained by defendant a> 15s. The defendant counter-claimed ior £7 IBs 8 td, being the value of 60 standards taken over from defendant •by plaintiff at {3 3d each (£3 15s), and 100 sacks borrowed V plaintiff cud not returned, at lOd each, 'A ti 4d The Magistrate gave judgineu. for SlatatM 'for £2 6s, and 10s costs, and judgS for defendant for £2 16s. IN OTHER PLACES. COURT OF APPEAL. (ttSMS I.BBOCUTIO* YS&XOSAV.) WELLINGTON, October 3. In ths Collins will cese, after Mr Alpers had concluded his address, the Appeal Coart said it would consider the matter further before calling on the respondents. Tte Court dismissed three appeals of pris-

oners, Ralph. Antonovici, Lidgott, ancj Battarbee, against sentences. In Rex v. Lamb, an application to appeal against sentence was granted, the argument to taie place on October 20th. SHEEP STEALING. (TRESS ASSOCIATION TELSGKIM.) DUNEDIN 1 , October 3. In the Police Court Ronald Elks mere 3S~eill and Herbert Maurice Neill,. young' men, pleaded guilty to stealing 003 sheep, valued at £550, from the (Government's Teviot Estate. They were committed for •entence.