MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1301, 2 December 1911, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M.) : WAYSIDE SMASH. CAE AND. JIGGER IN THE DAltfv. =! A claim for «CCG 13s. 2d, damages tnad© by Boatrico Amy Pinnock (in business as "Tho Arcadia Taxi Cab and Tour-' UVn,- ar , Service") against John ICier, of 1 \m J °^ on ' contractor. . ! Jho damage was alleged to • havo boon; caused by, tho circumstancc that servant had so negligently and UDfllrilniJJy managed a timber jigger that- Jt> had corno into collision, with a motorear 011 Ihe JJiitt Koad after nightfall, 'im IT } • ,' ni P ac ' tho car had sullercu. tho claim included au item set out as loss •of profit during the period of re-' Pains (thirteen days, £19 10s.). Lm,lc ' appeared for tlio plaintiff, ixsatrieo Amy l J innock, and Mr. Jackson 5r 0 John Kier. Mr. Samuol stated that defendant vas a contractor for tho carriage of the large wator-pijies for tho duplication of . the Jiutt main. On the night in question one or more of his timber jiggers were travelling along the Hntt Road, ooming in from the direction of Kaiwana. At about < o clock plaintiff's motor was proceeding irom town on its way to Day's Bay, and it came into collision with one of the jiggers. At the time tho car was showing the regulation lights, and was then runn'n?, well over towards the left-hand side of tho road. As for tho jigger, it had been at least ten foot on its wrong sido °f tho crown of the road. After lengthy evidence had been given for plaintiff the case wsa adjourned till to-day.

UNDEFENDED GTVTL CASES. In the following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default:— a.ew Zealand Electrical Fittings and Accessories Co. v. Percival Arcccr, costs ?? y ' Crura v. Arthur Hejuy Dfiarty, £3 6a. 3d., oosts 10s.; E. H. tfursthouse and Co. v. John Maunder f j o ' lOs -i Spencer RadV ,i £\v P ?^ n ' X 1 costs 10s.; Ldward Collie, Ltd y. A. B. James, £2 17s. 6d., costs 10s.; bates and Lees v. B. ld -> ooeta £1 3a. 6d.j m?« h o a i l Zi h3 J'- ParCT E - Baldwin gf- 2d-. T Coste <S2 Ma.- William Jupp fid nP' T i Kjrt *oo4, £3 3s. Bd. Costa 5a.; Chas. Begg and Co., Ltd., "to L '^ n Co., 19s. ltkL, oosts ss. 11 vaa to pay £05 lis. <d. to Pronse Bros, by December 15 « South Pacific Mort> gage and Deposit Co.. Ltd., v. Chas. Cashmere Green and Thoa. Green, del byDe^mW 0 *° W 6fl/ 10d '

POSSESSION OP A CELLAR. (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) , Tr H ', r &lTn Jl !c pd. Co .-> drapers (represented Phinfni „? S fe n ,V- lm «d against James IP 3 , ,°f Wellington, for possession of a.cellar m Courteuay Place; Trr l ; t ,, was that_ plaintiXF had left a writteu notification lor the defendant to give up possession,. but. defendant denied that he had received this.. The Court ordered tho defendant to qmt by December 14. . THE HOTEL COOK'S, "NOTICE." P'Mje Chaplin, a cook, claimed froni W. Uraper, ; propnetor of- the Club Hotel. Blenheim, the sum of £3. m ono woek'a wases in-li«u of notice,. ,M r - S. P. o*Lear7 appeaTed for the §ofendant Goulber for the H|s Worship upheld a. contention of the defence that 48 hours' notice was as much 11 ! 0 ®^ 17 " -?, 0 glTe Moment' for plaanhff for 175., with costs £8 os. 6d. POLICE BUSINESS. AN ENGINE WAS iPPEOACHING. Two informations, against. C. P. Vallance. were heard. One. charge was that of having driven a motor-car:over a railway crossing at Pctone when; an approaching, engine was within half a mile of the crossing: the other chargo alleged that the defendant had committed an. act which endangered the lives of persons travelling on a railway. ' The defendant did not appear. On the first chargo ho was fined £2, and the second charge was withdrawn.

WANDERING SHEEP. Patrick Cavcnogh was fined £2 because of sheep of his having been found wandering at large. On a charge of a similar ,nature E. I Nash 1 was fined 10a., and Morris Easier 10s. OTHER' CASES. ; For insobriety, Eva Mary Vina, vas fined 10b. . . ; ■ Max Wolfe pleaded gmltj to a charge of Ms hartag aamafnd a door tnd a window, the property of David Croseh, to the value of 225. Gd. .He wu fined S3* and was ordered to pay the .mount of the damage. . Ernest John Frederick Heale, alias Denis, was remanded .to 'Christchurch on a charge of having obtained £10 from Frederick William Kite by moans of falso pretenocs with .intent to defraud. Frederick Langford admitted that ho had absented himself. without leave from s.s.. Kaikoura, at Port Chalmers, on October 21. Ho wa3 sentenoed to 14 days' lmpnsonment. fames Connelly, alias Baxter, abas, MPheraon was again brought up and charged with having, on October 4, at Eiuidwick, New South Wales, conspired *nth Eobert Holt to cheat and defraud Thomas Atkinson If Do well of £5. The Court ordered that the defendant should be placed in the custody of Oonstablo M Lennan and returned to . New South