MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

♦ — , Mr. W. G. BiddeU, S.M., .presided at. ytcr*d»#.'s sitting ot the Magistrate's! [Court. Locta .Mabel Johnstone, charged with ■stealing £1 6a t pleaded guilty, w<ae convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on. Defendant was ordered to refund the money within a, month. for. stealing an overcoat, James Leonard Lomax was fined £2. .Ralph iiaicombe appeared -on a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Arthur Walling, tobacconist, Mannersstreet, on Wednesday night last, and stealing i) 8 and two tins of .cigarettes. Accused was remanded until Wednesday next. Bail was allowed in the sum of £60, two sureties of £30, or one of l£6o.

,When a Post representative enquired for a report of the voyage of the Corinthic, which arrived in Wellington ivssa. London to-day, he was handed a neat goki-embossed card, "printed at sea by tbe ship's printer." Ine card was in the form of a "souvenir and diary of the chief events, the weather, ship's runs, attd other items of interest on the twenty-filth voyage* of the X.M.S. Corinihic." It contained entries for each day «et out in this style ; —"Saturday, 3rd August.— Arrival at Holland at 7.30 3k. m. Coal token aboard. Left at 4 j?.m. for Plymouth." And again on Ttth August.— "Muster of ship's crew for (boat and fire drill. Father Neptune's •court was held in the afternoon, which icauaed great amusement for all. A good concert was given in the third saloon. Moderate wind and sea." Each day re<serve« separate treatment, and the whole .forma a splendid souvenir of the voyage. Replying to Mr. Baldwin's statement in last night'js Post in reference to the height of the Butt pipe bridge, the Mayor of Petone (Mr. j. W. M'Ewan) stated tbis morning that Mr. Baldwin bad quite airily waived aside the statemeat of Mr. 11.I 1 . A. Peterkin, who was* a member of the board when the question was under consideration. "My remarks, w the Mayor said, "were based opon t&e current talk at the time the increase in height was arranged for, and then finally npon the statement made by Mr. Petefkni. If Mr. Peterkin does no/know what he is talking about, does Mr. Baldwin? Let Mr. Baldwin tackle Mr. Peterkin." Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice', will leave on Monday for Master ton, where he wifl preside at the sittings of the H\u peeme Court-. A complimentary skating party will be tendered to Mr. J. Matson, of the KilJarnie Skating Rink, on Thursday evening next. A special committee has been set up, and a varied and intersting programme of ekatmg events has been arranged, inefadmg an exhibition of fancy and trick skating by little Mnrjofio Kecgan, assisted i# Mr. M. Keegan. A presentation will jKwiftado to Mr. Matson. Full particulars Mrt>v advertised.