MAGISTRATE'S COURT RETURNS,

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT RETURNS,

: FIGURES FOR ' ' .The return of business , transacted at tlio Magistrate's Court for the quarter: ending on September 30 shows the following figures, the totals for the corresponding period- last year being given in parentheses.:—. v .. ■ | •? : . CIVIL BUSINESS. j Number of : cases., ; hcard;i^Q2.t(ib6Bj,; i( gate amount sued for £25,964' 18s. 9d.' (£17,237. Bs. -Id.); ' aggregate amount recovered, £13,912 13s. lid. (£9306 ISs. 4d.); number of applications heard in Court or Chambers,,-117--.('124)-; number/of made (other' than on judgment 'sunimbnses), 96 "(107); number of plaints entered, 1547 'i'(1337) ;„number of. ,distress 255. (195 V; 'ifliumberjof. issued, 210 (192); number of orders mado on judgment summons, 51 (38); number of warrants of committal issusdj' 10 (7); number of writs l bf arrests issued,'l (8); number of summonses and other processes served by .the. ■bailiff .and ..assistants.-within ..two,.miles,, 799 (82p)d0,, over, two'miles,, 30J,-(240) number of'distress warrants esqqutpd within two miles, 60 (75); do.. over two miles, 1 .31 (31); •rijimbor...of.. warrants of committal' executed by tho'bailiff, 7 .(4). . Fees:—Amount, of civil fees paid, in stamps,' .£ll6l '145.-' (£ioo3 25.) j amount j of' licensing fees" paid in stamps^ ■ £7M:(£5 17-s.-).' •' ■■■■'>{ . - y ' -j ; ; [ / CRIMINAL CASES. j;

'Telrsihs "taken 'sumnlonedf or approhonded, 1328 males, 137 females..(l2£G.; 150); discharged for want of prosecution or ■waii t • of.■ evidence,'- 101 v; 6 (107, ';7);s'(,dismissed,; on the merits, '17, _4-; ('My 7); ; ooniiuitted, lor; trial or sentence, 46,. 0. (48, 1);' summarily convicted, 1134; 127 (952;'108).'-" •■' '••The folloviri& .coun,t?i'part in., last .yoar's reports':—Ficed, 547 'males, 44 females; imprisonment in Tiou of fino or. surety, 182, 13; peremptory imprisonment; 118, 22; whipping, 1, 0; bound over,-0, : 2 ; otders made; 136,; 31-;.,-- convicted^a.iuU,discharged with caution, 150, 15. ' Amount of criminal fees paid in stamps, i£l36 16s. (£315-7s. 6d.); fines, d0.,'£466 Is. (£l3l 135.); 'total;. £602,175> ( '(£4il7 .Qs. 6d).