MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2220, 5 August 1914, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YOUNG GIRL'S LAPSE

A CHANCE TO REFORM Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.", dealt with the police cases at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. A girl, aged 18 years, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon for stealing '.a gold ring valued at £1 7s. 6d., tho property of Thomas CV.tman. The girl entered Mr. Coltmari's stop and asked to Lβ shown some and while the ehop' man's back was turned she took a' ruig' and disposed of it to a second-hand dealer. Subscatently her father rer.overed the [ing and returned it to Mr. Coltman. AN OLD OFFENDER. John Power, alias 'Moloney,.' alias \Vat«m, alias Fitzpatrick,' who had a record for fifty previous convictions for theft, and a number for .'receiving stolen property, was fined £1 for stealing a pair cf gUHi boots, valued at 10s. 6d., the property of James Martin. OTHER. CASES. A first ofiondor, charged with drunkenness, was found .to be a Naval Reserve mail, and was convicted and ordeied to bo placed oh board H.M.S. I'lii.W.o! .. '.'l , or dii-orderly conduct whilst intoxiOiXtjJ, Albwt Edward Dickson was fined 10s. For insobriety, Mary M'llrOy was fined iOi ; May Irving was fined 205., and Tiii.othy Doiicvan and John Gilch.rist were tach fine-1 10s, each. Several first ofteiuicrs v/ere- leniently dealt with. CIVIL ACTIONS. , CLAIM FOR A 'WINDMILL., Decision .was reserved, after hearing evidence, in the case in which J , . B. JlntiMvan and Co., Ltd., sued Charles K 'Vi ildbore, farmer, of Pohangina, for tho return of a windmill and appliances, or, if. possession 'could not be! obtained, a sum of £34 4s. lid. The. plaintiif fuither claimed £23 18s. lid. as clnningcs for dentention if the goods wern ietiiintd: and £5 special damages. The rit'ffc'ico was that-tho action of the plaintiff in asking the defendant to sign throe promissory notes was unsatisfactory .to the- defendant, • and he notified the plaintiff that he would return the windmill and appliances. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.,■ was. on the bench.. Mr. W. Sim apneared for the plaiiitiff, and Mr. Goulter for the defendant. DEFAULTING DEBTORS. /, Judgment fo'r'plaihtifj by default was given, by Mr. W. G;:Riddell, S.M., .in the following oases:—Bertie Smith v. Josoph Haylock, £3 15s. 5d., costs 125.;,; James Smith, Lt<l., v. Gilbert Rowe, 1 £3 12s. 2d., costs £1: A. and T. Burt, Lt'd.,- v. James M'lvec, £G 11s. 9d' costs £1 3s. 6d.; William H.' Poole v. J. Edge, £1,25. 2d., costs ss;; George and George, v. Frank J. O'Sulliyan, £6 11s. Id., costs' £1 '3s. 6d.; James B. Hulbert. v. K. A.-. Anderson,' 7s. 5d., costs 55.; Abraham Levy y. J. Morrison, £1 10s. 6d., costs ss.;' Metropolitan, Permanent Building Society v.i Catherine Blick, £d 4 9S. 4d., costs £3 175.; RebertDickson Eliott v. "John.Reynolds, £1 Bs. 6d., costs 65.; Henry William's v, Henry Sainsbury,' £6 155., costs £1 3s. fid:; Frank IV Cosiin ; v.J. Miller, £4 155.,1 d., costs 125.; Jerusalem and Co., Ltd.; v. A. Nicol, £2 14s. 7d., cests 10s: ; Mark Smith v. Harry Harper, £3 35., cost» 175.;, David Milligan v. George Herbert Parkinson, £10,, costs £1 3s, 6d. . JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.' Edward Henry Eton was ordered to-' pay Hallenstom Bros.,' Ltd., the sum of £1 55., before August 18, in default 1 24 hours in gaol; James Rapley to pay the Empire Loan and Discount Co., Ltd., the jsiim of £8 135., before August IS, in default eight days in gaoli