MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MISCBLLANEOTTS CASES.

Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.JL, preside<l at the fllagistrate's Court ycetorday. Frank Duano was charged with lxiinsr. a rogue and a .vagabond in that ;ho ivae found' by night without lawful' excuse in enclosed ..premisos in Alulgravo . Street. Accused pleaded not guilty, and stated that he was so very drunk that he did not know what he was doing. He was convioted on the evidence of the constable who made tho arrest, and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, - - ■• ■

Charles Haughey came to Wellington from .the country about a fortnight ago, spent all his money, and in the email hours of yesterday morning was found by a constable in. the Congregational Church, Cambridge Terrace. Ho explained, that lie had gone into thfe churchgrounds to sit down and rest. He was convicted and ordered to como up. for sentence when called upon, the Jlagistrate advising him to go back to the country and resume work. William Smith, who was found drunk in Lambton Quay, was convicted and discharged, and for using obscene language was fined £3, in default U days' imprisonment.

For insobriety, Charles Alfred Tomlinson, who had been twice previously convicted, was fined 205., the alternative being three days' imprisonment. A seaman named Thomas Quinn, wtlo had unlawfully absented himself from' his ship, -was sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment and ordered to be placed on board the vessel ehoxild it sail before the expiration of the 24 homrs. For trespassing by entering the house where hie wife was living, during the currency of a separation order, Charles Francis Leatham was find £3, the alternative We-ing 14 days' imprisonment.' A remand to Monday next was granted in the case of Thomas Bristol, charged with the theft of a lady's coat, value ,£3, from the s.s. Wairau, the property of Johnston and Co., Ltd., shipping agents. Bail was allowed in .£25, and one surety of Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for accused. CIVIL CASES. Judgment was giyen for plaintiff By default in the following undefended civil cases :— Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Ross and Glendining v. A. P. M'Bride, £i ie. 5d., costs 175.; Aloook and Co., Ltd., v. A. Cooper, 35., costs only; A. Norman Jones v. R. J. A. Lister, £6 65., costs Bs.; C. and A. Odlin, Ltd u y. David Whyte, dB2, costs 10s.; Early Bros. v. C. Reginald Stevens, .£lB ss. (id., costs £1:\ 18s. 6d.; Dimond and Hart v. W. Galland, £1 13s. 3d., costs 10s.; Harold W. Brown v. H. Bodloy, .£l6 Is. 4d., costs M 103. 6d.; Shelah Llewellyn Ruesoll v. William Tinny, £3 155., costs 10s.; South Wellington Picture Company, Ltd., v. Charles A. E. Purdcy, ,£ls, costs .£1 10s. 6d.; same v. Edmund Robert Wood, £7, costs .£1 ss, 6d.; T. P. Lyons v. Val Blake, M 165., costs. 10s.; Carlyle, Beatson, Robertson and J. S. Watchorn and Co., Ltd., v. William Harold Lam-; bert, £7 Bs. Bd., costs .£1 3s. 6c1.; same v. Charles John Brenstrom, ss. coste only; same v. Hauseny Ebirhard, J!6 7s. Id., costs £1 3s. 6d.; same v. William j\[offutt, Xl 9 83..M., enste ,£1 11b. fid • same v. Fred Horing, £7 16s. 10d., -costs .61 3s. Bd.; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd , v. J. Prentice, X 2 Is., costs 10s.; Barber and Co. v. W. Boyd, £2 os. 7d., costs 11s.; Wallace and Gibson v. Staff Sorgoant-Major C. Lockley, £i 125., coets 135.; Barber and Co., v. Caroline Wallace, £1 7s. Id., costs 55.; Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., v. Mts. Myria Campbell, .045 17k. 10d., costs .£3 Us.; V. ,Tcn6on v. Bernard Diedoirch, £$ Is. od., costs £1 3s. fid. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. In a. judgment summons case B. Murray was ordered to pay O'Regan and Dickson the sum of £3 18s., on or before Mnrch 3 or serve three days in prison. DEFENDED CASES. Mary Fabian, of Tinakori Road, for whom Mr. T. H. Gill appeared, proceeded against Marie Lucio Grant, represented by Mr. C. W. Tanner, to recover .£lB 12s. 10d., balance of rent alleged Ixi bo duo; the claim was later reduced to .£lO 6s. 3d. The defendant was a weekly tenant of a house owned by plaintiff at a rental of 303. per week. On' June 23 last the defendant was notified that the rental would be raised to 17s. 6d. Tho defendant refused to pay the increased rental and also refused to vacate the house, but later left tho house. Various valuations were submitted to enablo