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MAGISTRATES COURT

THEFT ON THE HIGH SEAS. Mr. D. G» A. Cooper, S.M., presided alt tho sittings of the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, when Thomas Hughes, a member of the crew of 11.M.5. Maitai, was charged with theft oil the high seas. The allegation was that on December 1 Hughes pillaged the cargo and took a pineapple for himself. He pleadedi not guilty, but the Magistrate considered that the evidence was against the accused, who was liable 011 conviction to a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. The sentence of the Conrt on this occasion would be one month's imprisonment.

STEALING AN OVERCOAT. Charles Edmnnd Stewart was fined £2 for stealing an overcoat, the property of Hugh Murray. The alternative to payment of the fine was seven days' imprisonment. , INSOBRIETY. Persons convicted of drunkenness were penalised as (follow:—George Floyd 1 , fined £3, with the option of a month's imprisonment; Bartholomew Mahoney, fined £3, or fourteen days' 1 imprisonment; Andrew Anderson, fined 205., or three ■ days' imprisonment; Lilian Playter, Arthur Laming, and William Sommerville, fined 10s. each, or 48 hours' imprisonment. - ' CIVIL ACTION. In a, civil action in which Jack Jacobus claimed the sum of £1 from W. Murphy, for money due on a sale of goods, judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs £2 ss. We are asked to state that the judgment obtained by default on December 2 against Arthur Adrian Hobday for £23 18s. lid'., and costs, was entered by mistake, the amount sued for having been paid. The debt was due by Mr. Hobday in an administrative capacIty ' .

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2636, 6 December 1915, Page 8

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MAGISTRATES COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2636, 6 December 1915, Page 8

MAGISTRATES COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2636, 6 December 1915, Page 8

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