THE COURTS.-TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 11676, 7 February 1902, Page 4

THE COURTS.-TO-DAY.

SUPREME COURT.—IN CHAMBERS. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Williams.} Probate was granted in the following cases:—Re Hugh Thomas (deceased, Mr cases:-—Re Hugh Thomas (deceased), Mr MacGregor ; re Thomas Wilson (deceased), Mr MacGregor; re John Osborn (deceased), Mr Gascoigne. Regrant of probate was granted in the case of William. Geary (deceased), Mr Hislop. Letters of Administration. —Re James Rodger (deceased), Mr Hislop; accordingly. Re F. A. P. Howard (deceased), Mr Moore; accordingly. _ _ , Motion for Remuneration. —Re John Stephenson, deceased (Mr Brent). —Two per cent, on amounts actually realised, 1 per cent, on amounts of mortgages appropriated by trustees for widow (£30,000), 2$ per cent, on income. liberty to apply for further remuneration. Foley’s Extended Gold Dredging Company, .Liimitdd, v- Cutten Bros, and other (Mr Hosting).—Accordingly. Extending Time for Registration.—Re the Chattels Act and security from the King Edward Gold Dredging Company, Limited, to Lewis (Mr Sim).— Accordingly. Summons to Settle Commission. Munio v. Duthie (Mr MacGregor).—Order in terms of Mr Johnston’s report, Mr Johnston s fee to be paid by receiver out of funds m hand, £6 6a to be paid by Mr Duthie to receiver. , . . _ „ A Motion for Administrateon. Ke i- a. P, Howard, deceased (Mr Moore).—Accordingly ; one surety. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. (Before E. H. Carew, Esq., S.M.) A. M. Sidey (for whom Mr T. K. Sidey appeared) v. A. G. Brown.—Claim, £72 Is 9d, balance of promissoiy note.— Worship gave judgment for plaintiff, with costs (£4 6a).

CITY POLICE COURT. (Before C. C. Graham, Esq., S.M.) Drunkenness,— A first offender was fined Bicycle.—George- Niven was fined 5s for riding a bicycle in George street at 10.30 p.m. without having a light fixed to the machine. Prohibition Order.—On the application of Elisabeth Gault, for whom Mr Hanlon (instructed by Mr Sim) appeared, a prohibition order was issued forbidding the supply of liquor to Jas. Gault. Stealing Potatoes.—Wm Murphy, Jas Crawford, and John Moreland, charged with stealing 5s worth of potatoes, the property of James Thomson, pleaded guilty. —Sub-inspector Kiely said that Mr Thomson, a farmer at Green Island Bush, found on the 27th January that some of his potatoes had been rooted up and carried away. At 5.30 a.ro. on the 25tb Constable Leece found the men carrying away the potatoes in bags. Murphy said that he would pay for the potatoes; the others denied the change to the police, but afterwards went to Thomson and offered to settle the matter. —Mu Hanlon, appearing for accused, said they went crayfishing, and on the way home m the morning they so far forgot themselves its to take some potatoes. They were sorry, and were prepared to make reparation. He (Mr Hanlon) submitted that it was a typical case for the exercise of the power conferred by section 61 of the Indictable Offences Summary Jurisdiction Act—the power, namely, to treat it as a trivial case and dismiss it after admonition—as preferable to recording a conviction, and thereby branding the accused as felons. —His Worship inquired as to the character of (he accused, and finding from the police that there was nothing known against their honesty, decided that if by Monday they paid the damage and the costa (25s 2d in all) the case would be dismissed. Vagrancy- —Lizzie Donaldson pleaded guilty to a charge of being a rogue and vagabond, but promised to accept the Salvation Army officer’s offer of a home, and on that understanding the defendant was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.— Elizabeth Steel, charged with bring an incorrigible rogue, pleaded not guilty, but the evidence of Detective Connolly, Neil Little, and Constables Osborne and Sweeney satisfied the Bench that defendant was one of an undesirable party that camped near the Southern Cemetery and made themselves a nuisance to the neighborhood, also that accused was a confirmed vagrant, and she was .sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. An Undesired Baby.—The child of Mary Ryan was committed to St. Mary’s Industrial School, Nelson, the mother being ordered to pay 4s per week.