MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

In the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., Patrick M'Ferran, a, seaman belonging to the s.s. Nairnshire, appeared on a charge of having used obscene language on Lamb-ton-quay last night. Accused was fined £4. Penalty for default was fixed at fourteen days' imprisonment, a provisional order being made that if accused's vessel sails within the fortnight he be placed aboard her. James Neilson, alias Frank Johnson, charged with indecency, was remanded for a week for sentence. Station sergeant Darby intimated that the police desired to make enquiries regarding him. For insobriety Thomas Troy was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment.' A first offender was convicted and discharged. CIVIL ACTIONS. i Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., today in the following cases : —Joshua Heard v. Agnes M'Lean, £21 16s, costs £2 18s; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. Bert Davis, £3 2s 7d, costs 10s; JToung's Chemical Co. v. C. C. Green, £17 14s Bd, costs £2 0s 8d; Richard Keene v. Gavin Campbell, £8 8s 9d, costs £1 6s 6d; Townsend and Paul, Ltd., v. J. Robinson, £4 lls 7d, costs 14s; J. O'Brien and Co. v. Herbert H. Treanor, 14s, costs ss; Vacuum Oil Co. Proprietary, Ltd., v. Carl Anderson, £3 14s sd, coats 13s; Public Trustee, as executor of the will of James Bragge, deceased, v. Joseph Brown, costs only, ss; same v. Percy R. Scobie, £1 13s 2d, costs 12s; Public 'Trustee v. John Joseph Greaney, £1 2s 6d, costs 6s; same v. William Arnetfc, £12 10s, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. William John Young, £2 10s, costs 10s; "Empire Oil Co., Ltd., v. Smart Bros., £11, costs £1 10s 6d; Albert Major v. Mrs. L. H. Toomer, £5 18s, costs £1 3s 6d; Cycle and Motor Supplies, Ltd., v. Herbert S. Bates, £40 6s Bd, costs £2 14s; Karori Borough Council v. Edmund Platt, £102 4s 2d, costs £2" 2s; William Henry Bowden v. Albert Edward Bennett, £4 ss, costs 12s; Public Trustee v. Jesse James Hillo, £5 4s, costs 13s'^ 6d; same v. Alfred Augustine Quin,, £62, costs £4; Wellington Bakers' Union v. 'Wm. M. Stratford, £1 4s, costs ss; same v# Robert F. Young, £1 6s, costs ss; same v. Wm. Hughes, £1 6s, costs ss; same v. John Nelson Walk, £1 2s, costs ss; same v. John Walls, £1 2s, costs ss; same v. Otto A. V. Horning, costs only (ss); Luke^M'Gann v. Leslie Pattie, £65 19s 6d, costs £4 15s 6d; Wallace-and Gibson v. Alfred J. Bradley, £2 0s 2d, costs 12s; Commercial Agency, Ltd. (assignee) and Bing,^ Harris and Co., Ltd. (assignor), v. Thomas Peters, £64 17s 6d, costs £4 2s, Young's Chemical Co. v. Hunt and Co., £8, costs £1 3s 6d; Wellington City Council v. Albert Thomas Almond, £106 15s 4d, costs £5 13s; C. M. Banks, Ltd., v. Canning and Co., £2 5s 6d, costs 10s; Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., v. Richard Henry Hogan, £20 10s 3d, costs £2 14s; T. Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd., v. F. Fredericson, possession by 31st January and £1 rent. N JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. In the judgment summons case, Wellington Drivers' Union v. Herbert Furness, defendant was ordered to pay £1 7s on or before 31st January, in default three days' imprisonment. The Wellington Drivers' Union also proceeded by means of judgment summonses against Thomas Lane and George Gardiner. The former debtor was ordered to pa^£l 4s, and the latter £1 13s, both payments to be made on or before 31st January, in. default three days' imprisonment. The court refused to grant orders in the following cases : Rouse and Hurrell Carriage Building Co., Ltd., v. Leonard W. Elliott, a debt of £3 9s; Margaret Martin v. Ada Ricketts, a debt of £2 15s; Faulke and Giesen v. H. Haywood, a debt of £4 Is 6d; F. E. Rosa Radcliffe v. George Hazelwood, a debt of £1 9s; Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., v. George Smith, a debt of £7 9s; Briscoe and Co., Ltd., v. Cornelius Strid, a debt of £21 6s I.od. MOUNT COOK POLICE COURT. An habitual drunkard —Frederick Wilson—who was brought before Mr. J. Coogan, J.P., in the Mount Cook Police Court to-day, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Another in ebriate, Thomas Reynolds, was fined 10s, the alternative being forty-eight hours' imprisonment. One first offender was convicted and discharged, and another, on bail, was fined 10s, in the alternative forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., an unfortunate dipsomaniac pleaded guilty to being drunk in Tory-street a week ago (accused had been many times before the court on similar charges, and had secretly returned from spending a year in the Pakatoa Home). On the above charge he had been remanded to the Terrace Gaol for medical treatment, the cost of which (17s 6d) he was ordered to pay; in default 24 hours' imprisonment. He was convicted and discharged. Thomas Teece pleaded guilty to drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Ghuznee-street. Sergeant Rutledge gave accused a bad character, and the Bench inflicted a fine of £5; ir default, two months' imprisonment.