THE COURTS.

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THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. I (Before Mr JuUice Adams.) Thornton Silencer Rcddell proceeded against llenry Charles Rending /or specific performance of an agreement for sale and purchase. His Honour reserved liis decision. MAGISTERIAL. THURSDAY. (Before Mr K. D. Mosley, S.M.) TRAFFIC CHARGE. Torquil Smith, charged with crossing the Colombo street crossing when the iine was not clear, was fined £1 and costs. CANVASSER FIN'ED. Cyril Stewart ltamage, an insurance canvasser, pleaded guilty to two charges of tailing to account £or two sums—o£ x'J 10s and il (is—collected by accused on behalf oi the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Society. Council for accused suggested that he be placed on probation, but l Kamage: was convicted and lined i' 3, in default one month's imprisonment, on the lirst charge. On the second he was convicted and discharged. BREACH OF PROHIBITION ORDER. John Michael Barrett, charged with ..procuring liquor while prohibited, cohvieted and lined £2 and costs, in default fourteeji duys' imprisonment. AFTER HOURS. ' : William Cecil Dennehy, John Arbutlinott', George Ewen Mcintosh, aud John l'atrick McAuulty, for being found on licensed,, premises alter hours, were each fined XI and costs. UNPAID FARE. Ivy Alice Glassonbury was charged --with obtaining credit by fraud to the extent of 3s. It was stated that she had hired a taxi-cab, to go to the Public Hospital, and had not paid the fare. The prosecution was dismissed under Section IS of the Offenders Probation Act. INSULTING WORDS. For using insulting words in a public place, Gordon iieald was convicted aud fined £ti and costs. CHARGE DISMISSEE'. Thomas Sarcheit, a City Council employee, was charged with the theft of tweuiy-ouu standard rose trees, va.ued at £5 ss, the properly of dobn Pouisen, on June Gth, IUDI. Puulsen slated that accused hid denied to him having taKCn the roses from ins property. but Had asked if there were not sonie way of keeping the matter froni becoming puulic. Pouisen said that he could identify twenty-one of the roses in accused's garden in Durham street as those taken from lus StOCK. . , , Accused claimed that he had purchased the roses from an unknown man for lis 6dAir Moslev stated that lie was not satisfied that' accused had stolen the roses or had been guilty of receiving them, knowing thorn to have been stolen. However, tn6J'£ was no doubt that the roses were Pouisen s. The charge was dismissed, and accused ordered to pav £l, at the suggestion of Mr Poutsen, to the Mayor's Fund for the Relief of Distress. THEFT OF HOSE. William McGregor Turnbull was charged with stealing a garden hose, valued at the property of Sidney Walter Hickmott, oa or about December 15tli. Sub-Inspector Edwards said that "urnbull had admitted stealing the hose and selling it for 10s , Counsel for accused said that the '°P S ® was a tragedy for Turnbull. He ' a 4.. an excellent war record both in Gftllipoli and in France, and. he had been invalided out of 'the service because of shell-shock ana nerve trouble. * He had since lost everything in farming, and had set himself to every type of rough work without losing li.s self-respect. He had a family ot live. Turnbull haa practically no memory or tne theft, which had been due to drink. The Magistrate adjourned the case until ( Tuesday next, to enable accused to placei a sum of money in .the Court poor-box m lieu of conviction. . CIVIL BUSINESS. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT. Judgment by default was entered for the plaintiffs in the following cases:—H. I. Jones and Son, Ltd., v. J. W. Ross, £9 4s 9d; Official Assignee' (in the estate of C. (i. Martin) v. H. P. Tew, £5 10s 7d; Canter-

bury Coachbuilders* Union. v, S. Smith, 7s; Wheelers, Ltd., v. G. Palmer. £6 10s 6d; R. and A. Ferguson v. L. Griffiths, £29 4s; K. B. Cape-Williamson v. lliss A. Kjeighley, £1 12s 6d; Neill McGillivray v. W. Sweeney, £A ss; Perfection Ice Cream Co., Ltd., v. James Herbert' Craig, £39 Ss 9d; sajne, r'JSric Georgo Pocock, £3 4s 6d; G. J. Morrow v. A. E. Shepard, £3 7s; Fuller Bros., (as. assignees of Beadle and- Spinks, Ltd.) v. D. M. Williams, £2l 17s 3d;. H. 0. Urhvin, Ltd., v. C. Coombes and Co., 7b 6d;J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., v. G. Campbell and Co., 7s 7d; Blackwell Motors, Ltd., v. W. Clarkson, lGs; J. Falconer v, Lawrence Stuthridge, £3;' T. J. Morris v. B/ Bateman, £t 6s; I. Biggs v. E. Edwardson, £lO 7s 6d; A. E. Hope v. C. B. Carter, £1 15s 6d; Cyril Haynes Potter v. Una Muriel McDowell, £ls; George Edwin King v. Henry Milton Bates, £6 2s 6d'and order for possession. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. K. Brown was ordered to pay H. M. Coulson tlie sum of £4 16s 6d forthwith, in default'five days' imprisonment. DEFENDED CASES. Florence Nightingale Christmas, a married woman, of Christchurch, claimed to Recover £250 4s lid from James Shears, of Christchurch, a j>astrycook, and Maud Mary Shears, his wife, this sum being £2lB Is 5d lent by plaintiff to the defendants in December, 1928, together with £3B ,3s 6d interest, less £6 paid in reduction of 'the amount owing in December; 1931. * Judgment .-was. entered for plaintiff against both defendants. • Alfredina McGallan, a married woman, of Christchurch, proceeded against Joseph Taylor, a building contractor, of Christchurch, claiming £24 16s, being the balance of moneys received-by-the defendant from Wilding and Acland for the use of the plaintiff. There was a counter-claim from the estate of the plaintiff of £7O lis. Judgment was entered.for. plaintiff on the claim for £139 17s, and. for'solicitor's costs on the counter-claim. 1 (Before Mr. 11. P. Lawry,- S.M.) Judgment for plaliftiff was given in the case in which John J. Stevens, carriage trimmer, of Christchurch, claimed from H.; B. Kay, jun., a plumber, of Linwood, the sum of £3 6s, as costs and expenses incurred by the plaintiff through work done by the defendant.