MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 305, 13 September 1918, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

A SHORT-LIST.' | Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. _ Two first offenders for insobriety were convicted and lined ss. each. Four seamen, Henry Warren Lewis, William Tresize, Henry Doherty, anil Ingvald Ekeland, were charged with boiii" absent from' their ship without lea'e. Mr. M. Myers, who appear:*! for the shipping company, said he understood that the men, had some sort of grievance, and therelore left tlie ship, but if they agreed to go on hoard the vessel forthwith and do their duty nothing further would ho dond by the shipping company. The men agreed to do this, and the Magistrate convicted and ordered them to come up for sentence when .called advised the men that if they had any grievance tliev should bring it beiore the proper authorities. . James Keating, a. reservist, who some davs a"o committed the theft of 2s. belonging to the Red Gross Copper Trail, pleaded guilty to the offence, and was ordered to he handed over .to tnc military authorities. CIVIJ/" CASKS. Mr. W. G. Riddel!, S-.M.. gave judgment for the plaintiffs by delault in the following civil cases:—A. K Mrnot, Ltd., v. Frank Roach, iA3 »«■ Ml, costs £3 95.; Makara County Council v: William P. Brascli, £3 los. Id., costs 12s. In a iudgment summons case, If. Missen w'as "ordered to pay W. BJ.ack and Co., Ltd., £7 17s. 6d. by September 26. or serve a week in gaol. Plaintiff was nonsuited in the case ot J. Leach, motor exnert, v. M. Livingstone, a claim for £5 10s., balance ot fees for teaching.motor-car driving. C. W. Price and Co.. auctioneers, proceeded against \\. Tonkins. I arm manager, Stokes Valley, to recover WO Cs. od. for furniture .supplied to a labourer on the farm managed by defendant. The sum of £o 10s. was paid into Court, and in addition to tat jlid.rment was given for plaintiff for C'J 1-ls., with eosts.