MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I (Before Dr., M'Arthur, S.M.) ■■ ' I LABOURER'S CLAIM. 1 Alexander Golightly, labourer, obtained I judgment against Brown and Johnston, jj builders, for X'll 10s. 4d., a claim re- | specting work and labour in excavating a building site. Mr. J. J. M'Grath ro- - presented the plaintiff, and Mi'. H. Buddie the defendants. UNDEFENDED DEBTS. In the • following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default:— The Arcalia Taxicab and Touring Car Service v; Captain A. H. Rassam, .S3 195., costs £1 3s. 6'd.; J. .Solomon v. J. ,T. Loivther, £?, -is... costs 135.; Henry Mudgway v. E. J, Tnglcy, 95., costs £2 17s.*; "New Zealand Times" Co., Ltd., v. Bowater and Co., .£3l !)s. 2d., costs Jc2 Us.; Kirkcaldie.and Stains, Ltd., v. Mrs. George H. Hewson, ,E9 Is. 3d., costs X'l ss. lid.; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. John Young, £9 ss. 9d., costs .£1 17s. (id.; The King Goldminiug Co., Jjtd., v. John Jones, £27 10s., costs £2 lis.; Forde and Co.' y., Frederick W. Mills, £(, 175., costs £1 3s. lid.; same v. Frederick M'K'inley, £3, costs 10s.; Edward Collie, Ltd., v. Frederick Green, £!> 15s. 5d., costs £1 3s. Gd.; John Norton v. J. B. Gollins, £2 lfs. Bd., costs 10s.; Jos. Nathan and Co.'v. Allan 'Thomas Vickers, .£2O 25., costs .£2 Hs.; same v. Alfred Betts, £" 95., costs .£1 3s. lid.; the New Zealand Acetylene Gas Company, Ltd., v. Charles Vincent, M 95..(id., costs Oil 3s. Cd.; Joseph Caldwell v. A. D. Bayfield, .£2l, costs £2 lis.; Herbert C. Faulkc and Ernest W. Giesen v. Miss Eihina Baillie, ,£3l Is. Gd„ costs t £2 lli?.; assignee of \\. J. Conner y. 1 Percy St. John-lvcenan, £'i 155., costs 10s.; receiver for debenture holders of Peter Hutson Co., Ltd., v. Erling Brynildsen and George Eraser. .£57 17s. 3d., cosls £3 18s. Ud.; John Duthie and Co., Ltd., v. h'lliot Hume, .£2B 7s. lid., costs .£1 10.*..; "New Zea.bnd Times" Co., Ltd., v. A. C Barnes, .£l6, costs .£1 10s. M. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. G. Femandos was ordered to pay D. Jameson <£5 Os. Gd., by Febniary l" Douglas fJollis wa.« ordered to pay Miss j Baillie .£3O Us. 3d. by February 1. W. Ashraore was ordered to pay Veitch and Allan .C'l 9s. by instalments of ss. per week. j*. Jester was ordered to pay IT. G. I Scott -£13 is. 6<l. by February 1. CLAN M'LAREN'S MEN. A. Jarvis, Bernard Carribine, Edward Brown, and Peter Riley were sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment Cor being absent without leave from the s.s. Clan M'Lareii, at Timarii. Mr.-A.'Fair, who appeared for the owners of the.vessel, stated that the mon were found in (he country and wore-mak-ing'inland when arrested. STbo men pleaded guilty, and expressed a dcsLro to go took to thfi ship,

(!I(I!V side Of HOTELS. Tlio theft of a watch ami oliain worth .17. ljclonging to Joshua Herd, was nllegnil against John M'Donald, alias Henderson. It. was asserted that the two men were having drink in a citv hotel, and Unit when Herd went from the liar to another plai-is M'Donald followed, and took tnc iialelt and chain from him, and thou dpcampe.il. M'Donald declared in evidence that he did Jitit know Herd; but Herd was positive that M'Donald was the thief, and the ■ barman deposed (hat he liad seen the I two men at the bar on the night in ques- [ tion. M'Donald was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. OTHER CASUS. John Edward Usher, alias Ramsay, who on Wednesdav pleaded guilty to u chargo of stealing a "bicycle belonging to Robert , Douglas Christie, was sentenced to threo 3 months' imprisonment. i For insobriety .Tohn Walsh was sentenc--3 ed to fourteen days' imprisonment. Annie Smith, an undesirable woman, i was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment - for importuning passers-by > n Taninaki 1 (street. MJ _ , Edward Keen pleaded not guilty to a . charge that he was idle, disorderly, and r without sufficient lawful means of stipj port. He was convicted and ordered lo i como up for sentenco when callc on.