MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Sir. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.) I ANOTHER WAREHOUSE CASE. "GAVE HIMSELF UP." Charles Searle was charged with that: (1) On or about July 23 at Wellington, he stole one caddy of Derby tobacco, valued at J55 155., the property of W. G. Turnbull and Co.; (2) that, on or about April i* he had received from Allan Lee one caso of Vnn Houten's cocoa, valued at £7 10s.. the property of W. 6. Turnbull and Co., knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained; and (3) that ho received the caddy of tobacco (mentioned above) from Allen Lee. Mr. A. Blair appeared for accused. Detectivo Broberg withdrew the first charge as the caddy of tobacco was the one mentioned in the third charge. Ho asked for a remand. Mr. Blair stated that Searle had given himself up when it had come to his knowledge that a warrant was out for his arrest. He applied for bail. Detectivo Broberg remarked that Searle had once beeu a grocer, and later a commission agent. Ho understood lie was a man with some money. •The case was remanded, and bail was allowed in ono surely of c£so or two of .525. ELLEN BRIGGS'S CARE. Thomas Wells, a teamster, working at a Te. Kiri sawmill, in Taranaki, .was charged wilh being the father of an illegitimate male child of which Ellen Briggs was the mother. Mr. Meredith appeared for Wells, and Mr. M'Grath watched the interests of Ellen Briggs. Defendant admitted the case, and was ordered to pay 7s. 6d. per week towards the support of the child. I'AEEXTAL RESPONSIBILITY. Ada Rebecca M'Fadgen wa? charged with the disobedience of an order to support, her children. The arrears amounted to £0~. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for Mrs. M'Fadgen, and called her to give evidence tn show that who was earning 7s. 6d. a wek doing plain sowing and doin 0 ' house work for her board. Her husband wns earning .£3 os. weekly. The order against her was for ss. a week, aud that against her husband 15s. a v. eck. Mr. Jackson said that he would apply for a variation of tl , ? order =o as to make the husband responsible for the wholo £1, and the cusa was then adjourned till August 14. MUST LEAVE THE CITY. John White aud Frederick Miller v/ero ordered to leave the city within twentyfour hours. They had been found by night in an enclosed yard in Tory Street, and wore- charged with being rogues and vagabonds. "Give us a chance, and we'll get out of the town," suggested or.c. "I'll take you at your word this time," replied tho magistrate. "You will be convicted and ordered to como up for f.entence when caller! upon, on condition that you leavo Wellington within tho next twenty-four hour;." OTHER CASES. A fiue of £'2, in default ssven days, was meted out to John Chambers, wl:u was charged with having entered tha Albion Hotel during the currency of a prohibition order. An application for a prohibition order against John Nicholl Sheehy was granted. Ernest Bevan was charged with tha disobedience of several orders for the maintenance of his Fines amounting to £3 were made. Applications by Elsie Bevan (wife) for !i;e custody of two children were granted. Tor disobedience of an order for maintenance, Georje Stafford Styles was convicted and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. John Gr:en, an old man, for whom Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared, was fired £2, in default seven days, for a grossly indecent act in Harbour &lreet. Three first offenders were convicted and discharged on scores of drunkenness, and another was fined ss. William Cotter was fined 10s. for inebriation, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. i'or assaulting Robert Ru=sell, George Cowan was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. Denis Long, a first-offending inebriat?, was convicted and discharged on a charge of insobriety, and on a count of damaging Government property he was fined 10s., and ordered to pay the price (Gs. 9d.) of the damaged article. SHOP ASSISTANTS' HOURS. THAT HALF HOUR'S GRACE. Judgment was delivered in tho caso of tlio Inspector of Factories v. 11. J. Archer, draper, Cuba Street. Defendant had beeu charged with that on Saturday, July 1. ho had employed an assistant in his shop I in Wellington (a combined district) after nine .o'clock in the evening. His Worship said that, under the Act of 1691, it would appear that the shopkeeper could transact new business in the half-hour allowed after the hour of closing, but tho alteration in language in tho later Acts seemed to show that the half-hour allowed was intended fo be used in completing business then begun, serving customers who had come into the shop after closing time, or for doing other necessary work in connection with the goods then purchased, or gen?rally performed in every shop at or immediately after tho hour of closing. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs. Mr. Ostler appeared for the Department, and Mr. Westoa for the defetidant. After hearing the judgment delivered, Mr. Weston said that ho would probably appeal. His Worship fined the defendant 1?., and fixed the costs at .£lO 10s., in order to allow of au appeal. THE CASE OF A CARTER. In the case in which Robert Sinclaiigrocer, Wellington, was proceeded against by tho Department on a charge of employing a shop-assistant for more than nine hours (including meal time) on more than one day in a week, judgment was delivered also. . It was stated when the case was heard that the employee- in question was a carter, who started at 8 n.m., and finished his round at po;ith Kilbirnie a I- " p.m. Then, after having his tea, it was Into when he got back to the shop. Tho niiigistrato saitl that it had been urged that if an offence had been committed, it should be dismissed as trivial, inasmuch as a holiday occurred in that, particular week, and defendant paid this Miop-assistant £2 ss. a week, instead of 355,, the award rate. It had been point.

cd out, however, that defendant might havo obtained a permit by applying to the Department. Defendant was convicted and lined la. CLAIM FOE COMMISSION. (Before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.) Id the case in which AV. H. Tiirnbull and Co., land and estate agents, Wellington, sued Alfred Coles, of Hutt Road, Petone, for .€25 12>. Cd., for the work, journey?, and attendance of the plaintiffs, performed for the defendant, at his request, as commissio:i agents, in the sale of a property at Habiitat, decision was reserved till August , S. Mr. Blair appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. M'Gratk for the defendant.