MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 81, 7 April 1910, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

An habitual dmnkard named William Kgan, who had only been discharged a couple of days for intemperance, reappeared in the Magistrate* Court to-day, before Mr. W. R. Harden, S.M., charged with a similar offence. Within the last six months he had been con\icted on six occaxionc. In addition he appeared on a charge of ha\ ing used obscene language, an indictment which lie did not admit. The Bench did not take such a lenient view this time of thftranngres*or's offences, sentences' of three months' imprisonment being imposed, the terms to run concurrently. Three other inebriates — Mary Joyce, John M'Conville, and David Alexander Wright— were each tined 20s, in default seven day*' imprisonment. Still suffering from the effects of liquor John Condon wns remanded till Monday for curative treatment. A couple of individuals, alro charged with insobriety, were convicted and discharged. After disregarding a constable's wnrf. ing to cease quarrelling with another woman in Toiy-etreet yesterday, May Gibbon* was arrested on iv charge of hay ing occasioned a breach of the peace. A line of 20s was inflicted, the option beliig one week's imprisonment. Two firemen named William Watt and Michael Driscoll, belonging to the R.M.S. Turakina, were each mulcted in the sum of £5 for using obscene language on the Queen's WliarfT Penalty for default was one month's imprisonment. A young man named Charles M'Caoley, alias George Jones, was brought up on n charge that lie stole two horse rugs nt Lower Hutt on or about the 31st January la*t. valued at £3 10s, the property of Frank Higgott. Acch&ed, for whom Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared, pleaded not guilty. On the application of ChiefDetective Broheig he wok remanded till the 11th inst. Bail was fixed at £50 in two sureties of £25 each or one of £50. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for the plaintiffs by default wax given in the following undefended cases in the Magistrate's Court to-day : Karori Borough Council v. Wm. Henry Nimmo, £7 9* 4d, costs lla; H. Oscar Hewitt and Co., Ltd., v. Martin Pera" niko and Mr*. Kate Moses Peraniko (cohts only), £2 4s; Wellington Furniture Union v. Bernard Diederich and Son, £15 -, Lily Murphy v, Robert Smith, £16 9s lid, with costs £1 15s 6d, damages to be reduced to Is in the event of the return of the goods within twentyfour hours; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. Wm. H. Eccles, £3 4s 6d, costs 10s; same v. Harold Doorey, lift Bd, costs j ss; United Asbestos Australasian Agency, Ltd., v. J. G. Carpenter, £3 7s 3d. costs 10s; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Picot Bros., assignor, v. Mrs. K. Thomas, 17s 3d, costs 5»; John Rigg and Co. v. W. Danks, £3 16s 9d, cost* 13s; Agricultural and Pastoral Food Co., Ltd., v. Angcrstein and Jeffrey, £2 5s 9d, cosb* 12s ; Commercial Agency Ltd. (assignee) and G. H. Clapham (assignor), v. John Sheehy, £5, co^ts £1 5s 6d; Ellen Carrig v. Andrew Alexander Low, £4 19s, costs ss; Young and Tripe v. Crump and Hill, £3 Is 6d, costs 7s; R. and E. Tingey and Co., Ltd., v. J. E. Da\vson, £14 6s lOd, costs £1 10s 6d. In the judgment summons case, George A. Adams v. T. W. Twist, defendant, v.-ho did not appear, was ordered to pay £6 15s on or befora 21st April, or in default undergo six days' imprisonment. John Reginald Welsby, who nlso did not appear, was ordered to pay the Sims Hardware Co., Ltd., £4 6s Bd, on or before 21st April, in default four days' imprisonment. An order was refused in ench of the two following cases : Faulkc and Giesen v. Joseph Suba, a debt of £11 11h ; and S. Rawndev and Co. v. Fred. Butterworth, a debt of £19 6s 6d.