MAGISTRATES COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 94, 18 October 1910, Page 7

MAGISTRATES COURT

To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. For the seventy-fourth time, 'Clara Algar appearai before the court, this time to answer charges of drunkenness and of breach of the prohibition order against her. She was declared am habitual inebriate, convicted, and santaaoed to six weeks' imprisonment on the fir,st couirvt, and convicted and discharged an- the second. Similar charges were preferred against Frederick Hunt, who was also declared an habitual drunkard, sentenced to six weeks' detention, amd convicted and discharged for breach of the order. One first-offending inebriate was dealt with in the usual maomer. John Gatterall was convicted of drunkenness, and of having refused to quit the Albert Hotel when requested £0 do 60. He was discharged on the first count, and mulcted in a penalty of 40s, with a seven days' option, on the secoricl. For using obscene language, John Gerity was fined £3, in default of payment sentenced to 21 days in gaol. MOUNT COOK. At the Mount Cook Police Court this 'morning, before Mr., F. J. Liffington, J.P., Samuel Good, * for drunkenness, I was fined ss, with the usual alternative. ! For a similar offence, John Shannon was I fined 40s j in d&fault fourteen days' imI prisonment. One first offender, on bail, who did not appear, was ordered to pay 10s. Hall Carl Dovvnan, Herbert Burn, Thomas Reynolds, and two first offenders, also for drunkenness, were convicted and discharged. CIVIL JURISDICTION. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. Judgment was entered for plaintiffs by default of defendants in the following cases, before Mr. W R. Haselden, S.M. : — Bates and Lees v. Arthur J. Williams, £8 15s sd, costs £1 3s 6d; Wellington Biscuit Co., Ltd., v. Annie Lethabyj' £11 10s 9d, costs £1 10s 6d ; Kilbirnie Estate Co., Ltd., v. Frederick C. Hjorring, £39 4s, costs £2 14s ; Fragra Tea, Ltd., v. Ernest Perrett, £6 13s 2d, costs £1 3s 6d ; Charles Atkinson v. Herbert Baker. £21 13s 6d f costs £2 14s; Mary Burnett Anne Cliff v. A. B. James, £23 9s 6d, costs £2 14s; Thos. Wm. Forster v. Geo. Daniell, £20 8s sd, , costs £1 3s ; Rosenberg and Co. v. Helen M'Ginity, £3, costs ss; New Zealand Fruit and Produce\Co., Ltd. v. Michael Patrick Naughton, '£16 17s 2d, costs £1 12s 6d ; G. R. Wilton v. Edmond S. vVilhams, £3 11s lOd, costs 12s; D. W. Custer and Co. v: Goode and Walton, £26 0s Bd, costs £2 14s ; Laery and Co., Ltd., v. Robt. W. Allan, £65 4s 2d, costs £1 10s; Eden and Co. v. Frank I Fulton Cameron, £8 10s, costs £1 6s 6d ; Charles Hay-ward Izard and Thomas Shailer Weston v. Win. Alexr. Sammons, cO, costs £2 6s; Schlaadt and Co. v. Robt. David Wilson, £29 7s 2d, costs £2 14s; A. Wheatley v. Wm. Andrews, £2 7s Bd, costs 10s. In the case of William Harold Sefton Moorhouse and Joseph Prime Maxwell v. Frederick Blackridge, a plaim for £6 6s. rent, and £1 8s 6d costs, judgment was given for the amount claimed and possession by Saturday next. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. No orders were made in regard to the following judgment summonses: — South Pacihc Mortgage and Deposit Co., .Ltd., v. John Tofts, a claim for £23 16s 6d ; Levin Meat and Cold Storage Co. v. Alfred Kemp, £3 8s sd ; Wellington Timber Co., Ltd, v. William M'Coll, £18 8s 7d ; Samuel Smiley Patterson v. Henry George Curtis, £3 8s 9d ; and Thomas Horning v. Ernest Archer, £15 11s 9d.