THE OOURTS-TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14183, 7 October 1909, Page 6

THE OOURTS-TO-DAY.

CITV POLICE COURT

(Before H. Y. Widdowson, Esq., S.M.) Drunkenness.—A woman pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness, wiring that when miming to catch a train'slid slipped, fell, hurt her ankle, fain tod, and remembered no more.—Elation-sergeant King called evidence, which showed that she had been helplessly drunk near the Southern Hotel after ten o'clock last night.—She was lined sa, or in delimit twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, and was allowed time to pay. • Dismissed.—The adjourned case in which diaries Forbes M'Lclhin pleaded not guilty to a eltarge that, on Ootolwr 2. at Dunedin, he did steal £2 7s, the property of Carl Anderson, was again proceeded with.—Matthew Henderson, of Milburn, contractor, said that defendant had worked in his employ from August 51 to September 25. Defendant had received for wages £5 15s Sd, and left the job without giving notice, and leaving throe days' pay unclaimed, ■ which money would 'he retained for unpaid hoard. Witness had been told that defendant got a suit of* clothes from a tailor in Muton, and had not yet paid anything for it.—Dis Worship said that the evidence had been purely circumstantial, and in such eases it should lie gtrr.h as would force ono irresistibly to the conclusion that the party charged was guilty. Under the whole of the circumstances, he considered thfct the evidence was not sufficiently clear, and the case would bo dismissed. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. (Before IT. Y. Widdowson, Esq., S.M.j Judgment by default was given for tho plaintiffs in the following cases:—Johnston, Sons, and Go. (Mr Scanilebury) v. John Reynold Campbell (Christchurch), claim £3 15s, goods supplied, with costs (10s); same v. Win. Dundas Jolly (Wellington), claim £8 15s, goods supplied, with costs (£T 5s 6cl); the ‘Triad’ Newspaper Company (Mr W. L. Moore) v. Edward Boucher Hill (Cambridge), claim 17s, subscription to ‘Triad,’ with costs (ss); Wilson, Balk, and Co. (Mr Hav) v. Turner and Turner (Wellington), claim! £8 10s 6d, goods supplied, with costs (£1 Is 6d).