THE COURTS.

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THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. TUESDAY. (Before Mr E. D. Motley, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Patrick Borlcin, aged 63, charged with being drunk in a public place on July 7th, this being hi* second offence, was fined 80s and costi, in default 48 hours' imprisonment with hard labour. REMANDED. Ernest William Ernie, of 189 Antigua, street, a car buildor by profession, aged 50, was charged with indecency. On the application of Senior-Sergeant J. J. O'Grady, a remand until July 16th was granted. Bail was fixed at £2OO, with one surety of £2OO. NO FIXED ABODE. Charged with being an idle and disorderly person, in that he had insufficient lawful visible means of support, Davis Thomas Borcoski, a labourer, aged 24, who had no fixed abode, was remanded until July 10th, on the application of Senior-Sergeant O'Grady. Pleading not guilty to the charge, Borcoski said that he had been recently released from prison, and had not been able to obtain work. He was given nothing frhen he left the gaol. Giving evidence, a police constable said that be arrested acottsed on Monday evening, in the Dyer's Pass road. Borcoski had no friends and no money. Asking for a remand, the Senior-Sergeant suggested that Borcoski might be in need of medical treatment. NAME SUPPRESSED. Another ■ remand, until July 16tb, was granted in the case of a young man who was charged with stealing a bicycle. Mr Hobbs, who appeared for accused, BBked that ball be granted, and that an order for the suppression of his client's name be made. Hiß client was 19 years of age, and lived with .his widowed mother. Chief-Detective J. Carroll, wlio made the application for the remand, said that he had no objection to bail being allowed. The Magistrate then fixed bail at £6O, with one surety of £6O, and ordered that the young man's name be suppressed. • CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr H A. Young, S.M.) CLAIM ON LEASE. F. A. Jones, of 103 Gardiner's road, Harewood, was sued by the Commissioner of Ciown Lands (Mr A. W. Brown) for £lB7 7s, being the balance due and owing in respect of a : ease. This lease, it was alleged, was for a property of approximately 851 acres, situated at Springfield, and forfeited by defendant by default on January 16tb last. Included also in the amount of the claim m an advance under tho Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, for goodwill and improvements. , . . In addition to disputing this claim, defendant counter-claimed for £Boo—the full amount that could bo claimed in the Magis* trate's Court—special damages, irrespective of being indirectly responsible for losses, approximately £IOOO. The counter-claim was based ( on improvements, malice, injustice, misrepresentation, and wrongful information. After evidence had been heard, the Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff for the full amount claimed Ho also gave judgment for plaintiff on the counter-claim, and said that he was not satisfied that anything was due to the defendant. •TRESPASS CASE. F. G. H. Alexandre, farmer of Marshland (Mr R. A. Cutbbert), olaimed from H. Mugford, a dairyman of Marshland (Mr M J Burns), the sum of £64, being £i for potatoes and £SO for general damages for trespass. Plaintiff alleged that defendant entered his property without permission, seized ten «a«ks of potatoes, and refused to give them • up. Judgment was given, for plaintiff for £l9, comprising £4 for the potatoes and £ls general damages. Costs were allowed plaintiff. JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT. "Judgment for the plaintiff by default was given in the following cases: —Christchurch Presa Co., Ltd., v. David Hugh Blackie, 7s Bd, Jae. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., v. the South Canterbury Engineering Co., Ltd., £29 tls 4d; J. Carter and Sons, Ltd., r. W. Watson, £1 12s sd; Graham, Wilson, and Bmellie r, D. Borensen, £4 l£s; Michael' Murphy ▼, Reginald Lynch, £4 9s: Boy Twyneham ▼. Leonard Harry Nicholas, £3

86, The Hurunw Babbit Board v. Jubm aide, £1 3s, Joe Bicrmap, hid., v. £yJ. Leonard, £l3 9s 6d; the &etng" •rating Company, Ltd., v, W. K. Cements, £2l 16s; Minnie Harm t. i'homaa PrWton, £5 108: Ophelia Viola Barrell, George Barrell, and Charles Weston Barrell, and Lucy Viola BarreU, trustees of the estate of George, Barrell, deeeased, v. Henry Ward Payn, £24 188; Gordon and Uotofa (Australasia), Ltd., tl 8s 9d: same v. H. G. -MarAall, £9 10a Ud; Jpnea Motors, Ltd., v. K.. A. Hadder, £8 12b 9d; E. Woodford v. William Border, lOs: The Christchuroh Harmonic Society (Ino.), v. G. W. Parry, £1 Is; W. H. Simms and Bona, Ltd., v. H. G. Marshall, The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. H. C. Web- . ater, £3 16s 4d; T. D. Lsams and Co., UW., ~ v G'. Honey, £3 7s 6d; same v. J Stevenson,- £3 9s Id; same v. J. K. Bates, £1 !?• , 6d; same v. Mrs M. Te Uki, £1 10s: same v A. C. Manson, £1 2s 6d; same v. I>. FUvey. £1 4s 6d; T. Barter and Co. v. C. D. Dftlliflon ai(d Co., Ltd., £43 4« 10d; Hutohison and Co., Ltd., v. G.-Hughw, £l4 19s; AV. D. and H. O. Wills, Ltd., v. F. J. Leonard, £l3 4s Ed. REMAND GRANTED. Ernest Witte, aged 52, a farmer, of Sprlngston, who was charged with a breach oi the conditions of his release on probation, was remanded to appear on July 10th. ■ Bail was allowed In, the sum of £IOO and one snrety of £IOO. COMMITTED TO BORSTAL. Barbara Helen Bryce Smellie Cooper Bae, aged 20, was charged with the theft, on April 20th, of a suit-case and pillow-shams, valued at £2 16s, the property of Dorothy Janets Morgan. She was further chftrged with obtaining, by false pretences, from R. Hannah and Co., on April 24th, with intent to defraud, a pair of shoes valued at 17s 6d, having represented that she had authority to have them charged to the Rev. O. A. Tobiii. of Burwoo.d. She pleaded guilty to both Charges. The Magistrate said that accused had been released on probation in February, 1920, and had again been brought before the Court in May, 1930. The Salvation Army had taken an interest In her, but she had'done nothing to help herself. Nothing could be done for her; she was a danger to any home she worked in. Accused was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institution at Wei. lington for the term of two years, the goods to be returned, to their owners.