MAGISTRATE'S COURT
♦— . Mr- W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Kate Brady, charged with drunken- j • ness, was fined ss, in default twenty- j four hours in fpol. A plea of guilty was entered by Lucy ' Weston, alias Milne, to a charge of ' using obscene language. Defendant was fined 40s, with costs, in default seven days' imprisonment. ALLEGED UNSKILFUL DRIVING. The following civil case was heard before Air. W. G. Riddell, S.M. :— William Jenkinsoii, dyer and cleaner, Wellington/ sued Herman Hayman Kahn, clothier, Wellington, for £3 0s 6d', the value of a tyre and inner tube of a side-car, alleged to have been damaged through the negligent and unskilful driving by defendant of a motorbicycle, to which ihe eide-cai' Was at- ' tacned. The side-car had been lent by J*enkinson to Kahn for an afternoon's run on the Hntt-road. JVfr. Mr P. Luckie appeared for plai# tiff^and Mr. J. Dickson for the defendant. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff, for £1 10b costs, and £1 witness's expenses. At the .Mount Cook Police Court today, before Mr. T. W. Pilcher, J.P., three- p^otis were charged with drunkennees. ' Kate Flood was convicted and discharged, and John Harris and a. first offender, the latter of whom did not appear, were each fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment.
Mr. R. J. White, manager for. New Zealand of the Guardian Assurance Company, Ltd., who is leaving for London_ by the Warrimoo to-morrow on a business visit, was presented yesterday with a handsome travelling trunk by the staff of , the New Zealand officea of the Guardian, who - metu_to -^vish. him bon voyage.. ' " t
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 8
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272MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 8
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