MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 1 June 1904, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TUESDAY. MAY 31st. (Before Mr H. IV. Err.bent. S.M.) POLICE CASES. John Johnson and Frank O'Neill were convicted of drunkenness and fined 5s each, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. .Limes Northey pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was remanded for a week for medical treatment. Su Young Bun, charged with having committed perjury during the heaving of an information against Wong Hah Sing for having sold intoxicating liquor without a license, was remanded till Thursday. He was admitted to hail in two sureties of £2O each. Frank O’Neill and Thomas Atkinson were remanded till Monday on a charge of theft of some articles of clothing valued at £3 6s, the properly of James Gresnhill. MAINTENANCE. Robert Wesley Nichoils pleaded guilty to a chaige of having failed to provide adequate means of support for his wife and five children, and was ordered to pay £1 per week, and £2 3s, the cost of bringing him from Gisborne on warrant. CIVIL BUSINESS.

In each of the following civil cases judgment was given for the plaintiff;— | William Rathbone v. Lily Be!!, £2l 12s. costs £3; Taradale River Board v. James White, 11s lid. costs 9s; .1. F. Ludwig v. Andrew M. Shngar, 7s 6d costs 8s; George Faulknor v. James Magill, £4 Is 6d, costs £1 8s 6d. In a defended case, G. E. G. Richardson and J. M. McLean v. Irepoama Rakat iri, the plaint ills sought to recover £B7 9s sd, paid by them from time to time to the defendant on account of the purchase of his interest in the Petane block. Before the purchase was completed the defendant had sold his interest to Mr G. Ehhett, of Hastings, and received payment from him. The plaintiffs now claimed a refund of the money paid to the defendant. The defence was that the plaintiffs were endeavouring to prevent Mr Ehhett from completing his title, that as long as they were doing so they were not entitled to judgment, and that the Magistrate ought not to deal with the case- until the question of Mr Ebbett’s litis had been settled by a higher court. His Worship reserved judgment. Mr Humphries appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr G. E. Lee for the defendant.

W. A. Amner v. Mrs if. Mahony was a case in which the plaintiff claimed £2 17s as half-cost of a dividing fence in Chaucev-road. After hearing the evidence His Worship non-suited the plaintiff, with costs £1 14s.