THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 5

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT.

FRIDAY. (Before his Honour Mr Justice Macgrcgor.) In the Supremo Court yesterday, b-fore his Honour Mr Justice Macgregor, Mr F. W. Johnston, for the Canterbury Law Society, moved, -under the Law Practitioners' Act, for a rule nisi aeainst Lionel Lancelot Hatchings, of Christchurcli, and Michael Joseph O'Brien, of Timaru, calling upm them to s-how cause within 14 days whv they should not be struck off tho. roll. Hitchir.gs, who was emp'oved s» a lawclerk in Christchurch. p'eaded jnultv last year to a charge of fraudulently failing to account for monevs belentring to lva employers, ar-d O'Brk.n to a- bill of exhange. The motions were un-ppotcd. MAGISTERIAL. FIUDAY. (Befwe Messrs John Brown and C S. Bingham, J.P.'s.) HELPLESS DKUiNir^MS'ESS. Charged with havine beer, found in a state of he'pless drunkenness in Colombo street on Thursday, an old offender nnmed Dora.'d Mathiewm, acetl 51 ye?:-s. pleaded guiity and \w. convicted and fined 20s, in dcijult 24 hours' imprisonment. BY-LAW BREACHES. For drivirg a motor-car without a rem' lirrht at night, Xorniau Donald wus convicted without penally. George Shipley w:r cnnviote-.l -and fined 10s for leaving e- motor-car unattended. Harold Cecil Avmex wf.a convicted and fined sr. for a. similar o£hnc<» Albert Kransden n.id William C!r-av were each convicted ,i-"l fined in? for having cycled 'jt liiehl without a- !i«-ht. Ales. Mc-r-onald, Robert J. Chrpmin, and Cec-go Oil ton were e-ch con.'ictcd .and fined 2Cs fir a like breach. TEAM v. BUS.

A plea o{ no; guilty was entered by Charles H. Keys, ;in omnibus driver, defended by Mr C. S. Thomas, who was charged with having cliiveu a bus along Tuam street and hunted into Colombo street without, first rea:hing the centre line of Tuaui street. Mr H. Mcintosh, the Ciiy Motor Inspector, prosecuted. An eye-witness named Chas. M. Cock, a lcbour.tr, g:ive evidence to the effect that *ie was riding a bicycle along Colombo street towards the Square when the collision occurred. He passed a tram car which had stopp.'d hi Colombo street, nt the Tuaui street corner, and as he did so he noticed an omnibus nboiit 35 yards down Tu;ni street East, but it- was proceeding; towards the tram .inc. He heard the trim car start and saw it move en towards the Square, but by thit- time the Lus hod' reached the intorfecikm and, in an endeavour to get in front- of the tr-:m, collided wi*h it. Hvi.lence was given, by William Bovd, the tramway nntorman. Boyd s.-v'd that after the tr*m started he noticed tl-e bus. It came along Tu'nii street, towards his car and enaeavc.med to got in front of hi* err. He put on the emerge.rcy biskes ard had practically stopped when the tail of the bus, in swineing around, hit the tram car and dem-ag«-d it. Keys, who until -rbDut three months ago, wai a driver f-?r 1-ie Inter-City Motors, and who dr*ve th? bus on the ds-" ot the accident, raid that when he got to the intersection of ■ Cclomb-3 a.".d Tuam. streets the tr.om wn<* standin? at the corner of Tuam "treet. He reached the intersection before 'the tr.vm had started and mide a- complete and a good turn. Then, jn«t''a« he was right''nsr ihc bus on the, tramlines, the tram car started and ran irto his bus and pushed it alonsr for about- 12 feet.

Corroborative evidence was given bv Wil-. 1: -uu C, S. S'.anl»y, a °uard employed by i'to New Zealand H.iilwsy, who said ho «8t the whole cf iY.". accident. For <he defence, Edward farret, Edward W. FiHiot. Abater Yarre'i. LawTencc Taylor, arid Arthur J. Jones, all eyewitnesses, also gav< evidence. The Bench dismissed tho case without comment. iJJili LEESTOX. Mr "W. G. Cruickshank, S.M., preside! at the monthly sitting of the Court at Leeston yesterday. A first offender for drunkenness, who was found in charga of a horse and cart, was fined £3 and costs. in an, application for an order on judgment summons, J. H. Blaclkivcll (Mr W. J. Bcveridge) and William Lapslcy McJarrow, Ilia defendant satisfied iho Mag'utrato of bis inability to pay, and no order was made. Jeffries, Ltd., a West Coast firm, for whom Mr A. S. Nicholls appeared, proceeded against Edward K.ingdcn, a horse-trainer, tor recovery Ot ft debt, in respect of which judgment .was given in January. After defendant had l:c.n examined,- the Mag;stra'.e mnde an order for tho payment of £1 per month, tho first pavnicnt to be made on April 27th. ASHBUBTON. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., presided at a sitting of the Ashburton Magistrate's Cvurt yesterday. A juveni'e, ]0 ycara of age, web charged with being a child net -under proper control, and with baing in r.oisession tf.fireauns. A charge of being a person not under proi.cr control was also preferred' against iris cight-yeairo'd brother. On tho application cf Senior-Sergeant D. Jackson, a remand was granted for cne week. I*'or riding on the footpa-ih Annio Hay wa-3 fined is, while for a similar offence. E. Leech was fned lCs and ccsls. On a charge of riding without a light B. Martden and S. McClymont were each fined 15s -and COBtS.

• On a judgment summons J. Gudsell (Tinvrald) (Mr A. K. proceeds'."'! against R. G. Broivn O-Vif'owby) for £'9 2s 7d, bein? an amount for groceries supplied. An order was jnado for the payment of 5a per week.

Mis F,. JI. Lcndrum 'Hawera) 'Mr G. H. Buchanan) proceeded ag n - bcr brothers, J. Gnfan (Mr A. K. Korth), E. Griffin and V. W. Griiltn, all cf, Ashburton, kr the sum of £f>a, Leing £ls lent by the plaintiff to tha deiendrnts ior payment of stamp duty i.i the tit-.e J th ir lite mother, Mrs May Griffin, 420 iuuerai LiiKjiwoi and arrears of interest due to the Building Society and ioj itmuucraticn for nursing thc.r moth-* prior to her Cecewe. As an alternative the* plaintiff c.aia.cd from the defendants E. Origin and F. W. Griain ilia sum cf '£-.5, the amount of a note dated April ISth, ibi3, made pa/cole on demand, Wiiicfl the said deiendaiits had net paid. Judgment wi.s given for pii.;ntitf against E. and F. W. Gr._.u lcr ±ba and eo3!s, £2 12s, while. plaintiff was m ti.o claim v>ru.ui.

Wil.iam JJie.., ua yeari ot age, an inniats cf tho Old Ai.en/6 iiomc, was uuargea wil.i. on by drowning, bciiiojiii-.t'eanl L). Ji.ciao.l Said that the doctors \,uuiu i.ot commit uia tj the ,n?.yiuai. The master oi the Homi (Mr F. lx. iurigiiy rciusea pjint-D.:.nK u> tako him bacK 10 the iiome, thus necessitating bis being taken liio cust.dy. "A n--accused was c-nvicicd,- ordered to remain in trie Turranti Hume, ar.d tome i.p ior suntcr.ee Vihsn called upon. William James Moore, cf Hawera, wiio appeared on remand, was thaiged (1) tuai oa December 3Cnh, 1924, at iiuwera, with intent to defraud, he did cbtain- iU 173 from Mortoek and Company by means of a valueless cheque w £5, drawn on the Ban* cf Australasia. Haweia: (i) on Janua-y Sth, 1325, at Feildiug, he obtained from .Percy Goldsmith Guy, the sum of 13s by ' means of a valueless ehec/ae for 19s 6d; (3) oa January i:lh, 1525, at Wnngamii, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Neil McKenzie Forbes -he sum -f .£4 Bs, by means of a valueless cheoue for £5. drawn en the Bank cf Australasia, cf Hawera. On tho explication cf Senior-Sergeant 1). Jacxson, a. remand to appear at "Wanganui on March £oth was granted.