MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S*M. For drunkenness, John William Lucas and Henry Greenfield were each fined £1, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment. Lucas \Vas also made ' the subject of aj prohibition order. Six first-offenders were convicted. William Hickey, aged 68 years, an inmate of the Ohiro Home, was remanded till to-morrow, charged with a serious offence against a girl six years of age. William Brown (alias Anderson) and Mary Brown (alias Mary Jane Barry) were jointly charged with the theft of a watch, valued at £3 10s, the property of Thomas Power. Tho arcuseH, who pleaded guilt-y, had occupied a room in the same boardinghouse as the informant, and during his absence entered the room and stole the watch, which was subsequently traced to a second-hand dealer's 'shop. Both accused were sent to gaol for three months, and the Magistrate ordered that the watch be handed to its owner upon bis reimbursing the dealer in the sum of ss, which was advanced on the article. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for the plaintiffs by default was given in tlie following cases by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. :— William Hall v. Mary Hewson, £2 12s 9d, costs 10s; Dresden Piano Co. v. William George Rashleigh, £10 lls, costs £2 5s (3d ; A. D. Kennedy and Co. v. Hugh Sebastian King, £H 15s. ccst« £1 10s 6d ; Dresden Piano Co. v. Charles Koroneho, £9 5s 6d, costs £1 8b 6d ; Miramar Borough i Council- v. FTank H. Roach, £5 2s lOd, costs £1 3s 6d ; T. N. Holmden v. C. H. Hopping, £7 14s, costs £l 3s 6d ; Public Trust Office v. J. James, £5 14s, I costs £1 5s 6d ; same v. Theresa Maria Williamson, £4 ss, coets 10s; Dresden. P£ano Co. v. Charles Ferris, £23 iis, ! costs £2 & 6d ; City Corporation v. David O'Hara, £16 4s 6d, costs 15s; F. T. Bower bank v. O. Oliver, £2 2s, costs - 1 0s; G. Hardt and Co. v. Turner and Co., £16 lls Id, costs £1 10s 6d j U. Hannah and Co. v. Rose Allen, £1 18s sd, costs 13s; Alexander M'Millan, Limited, v. Silver Pine Co., Ltd., £6 6s, costs £1 12s 6d; C Smith, Ltd., v. Henry Archibald Callaghan, £18 Is 9d, costs £1 ,10s 6d ; J. E. Gear v. George Gordon, £6 8s 6d. costs £1 3s 6d; Bertie Smith v. John Wilson, £1 9s sd, costs ss ; Edward N. Sutherland v. Robert Phillips, £3 is Bel, costs 10s; J. E Gear v. Thomas Roach, £1 10s 6d, costs ss ; same v. George Cootes, £3 3s 4d, costs 10s ; same v. William Roach, £4 12s 7d. costs 10s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. I B. E. Lawrence was ordered to pay Otto Englundh £6 5s 6d by weekly instalments of ss ; John Caleb Tri,ckett to pay Sarah Agalo Jacobsen £3 15s by | 7th April. gp —

Colonel PI S. Heard, Director of Staff Duties and Military Training, returned to Wellington to-day sifter a visit to the South Island, in tho course of which he inspected the Garrison Artillery camp at Dunodiu and the military camp being conducted at Waitaki High School. The bowling match arranged between the building trade employers and the other members of the Wellington Employers' Association, arranged for tr>day, has been postponed until Friday afternoon.