MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 14, 18 January 1910, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

A young woman named Margaret' M'Hugh, alias Hargreaves, disobeyed" an order to remain in the Salvation Array Home for six months, and as a>. result was brought before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., to-day, in the Alagistrate's Court, on the original charge — one of being a rogue and a vagabond. Two convictions of being an idle and disorderly person were cited against the-; woman, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. A vegetable hawker named Reginald FrantjJß Cecil Rudd, for using obscene language in Adelaide-road, was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. Florence M'Donald, who had been undergoing curative treatment as the result of having been helplessly drunk, was fined 20s, and ordered to pay expenses (178 6d). The alternative was fixed at fourteen days' 'imprisonment. Jean Dalziell pleaded not guilty to a charge of obtaining^ certain clothing of and from Harold Harris, to the value of 19s, by means of false pretences. He was remanded till to-morrow. A charge of forging the name of A. E. O'Neale to a cheque, which he uttered to the D.1.C., Ltd., of New Zealand, was preferred against Archibald Clyde M'Donald, Acqueed was remanded till the 26J11 inst. Alejfcnder James Smith told how he* •had come down from Taihape, and bad met a strange man, who had robbed him of his money. No means, no bed. That was why he was found asleep on private property at 2.15 a.m. to-day. A charge of being a rogue and a vagabond was preferred against him. Mention was made of previous convictions. The magistrate sentenced him to three months' imprisonment. Twice - previously convicted for drunkenness, Jo6eph Gibbons was mulcted in the sum of 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Two other individuals — first-offenders —charged with intemperance, were dealt with. One was convicted and discharged, and the other— out on bail — was fined 10s. Thb alternative was fixed at 24 hours' imprisonment in each case. CIVIL ACTIONS. Judgment was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day in the following cases : — Empire Loan and Discount Co., Ltd., v. Andrew Small Johnston, £72 13s sd, costs £4 6s; Ohakune Loan Co., Ltd., v. Ernest Mawson S. Stevens, £12, costs £1 10s 6d ; Commissioner of Crown Lands v. Charles Leopold Zimmerman, £12, costs £1 10s 6d ; Wellington Publishing Co., Ltd., v. Chas. H. Shailer, £5 1 6s, costs £1 9s 6d; George Pinnock v. P. Leahy, £10 5s 10d, costs £2 13s 6d ; Cederholm and Tolley v. Frank Roberts, £6 10s lOd, costs £1 3s" 6d ; Alex. Anderson Grant v. George Henry Bradley, costs only (10s) ; G. H. Thornton v. Elizabeth Moore, £2 8s 2d, costs 10s ; M. Hodgins v. David Barrie and Mary Jane Barrie, £66, costs £4 3s ; Palmer Engineering Co., Ltd., v. Alex. M'Larry and George W. A. M'Larry, £119 13s 4d, costs £6 3s 6d; Harris and Bastin, Ltd., v. Frederick Wolf, £1 10s, costs 7s ; H. Oscar Hewett and Co., Ltd., v. Alice ! Phelan, £5 10s, costs £1 6s 6d ; same v. Joseph and Catherine Ashton, £8 10s, I costs £1 6s 6d ; same v. Charles Wm. Ritchie, £5 13s, costs £1 3s 6d ; Clement Walker v. Arthur Ernest Beechey, £1 14s 6d, costs ss ; Mrs. J. T. Briant ! v. Norton Smith, £15 6s 6d, costs £1 i 13s 6d, and possession of goods. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. In the judgment summons case M'Leod, Weir, and Hopkirk v. Ed- . mund Geo. Pointon, defendaijt was ordered to pay a debt of £5 12s 5d on o" before the 31st January, in default seven days' imprisonment. ' No order was made in each of the following cases : — Bates and Lees v. Wm. Johnston, a debt of £3 ss ; Henry Bardsley v. Wm. Donajdson, a debt of £16 10s; Michael M'Grath v. Michael O'Brien, a debt of £13 ss ; A. Lindsay, Ltd., v. Robt. Carlisle Sheenan, a debt of £3 16s 6d. A PROMISSORY NOTE. A case affecting two Pbrirua residents j — May Victoria Auty, postmistress, v. Adam M'Morran, coach proprietor— was he-ird before Dr. A. " M'Arthur, I S.M., to-day. Plaintiff claimed £t> 3s, I amount of a promissory note and interest. Judgment was for the full amount, with costs £1 18s, less 15s representing coats already allowed de- ] fendant. Mr. Machell was for claimant and Mr. P. W. Jackson for defendant. f i MOUNT COOK. The presiding Justice at the Mount Cook Police Court this morning was Mr. F. J. Lissington, who dealt with four cases of drunkenness. John Burns and John Scott were each fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and two others were convicted and discharged.