MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 7926, 31 July 1886, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

♦ ■ CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, July 30. (Before J. Ollivier, Esq., R.M., and R. Westenra, Esq.) DsuxiffENNKse. —Eliza Wilson, who had been frequently before the Court on this .charge; was again convicted; but as some person ■' connected ' with, the Temperance mission kindly undertook.to endeavour to reform her, the Bench only inflicted J* fine of ss.—John Freeman, who came into Court on crutches, was also leniently dealt with, being convicted and discharged.— Two men, who had not been; previously •convicted, were fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment. Vagrancy.—William Leroy, alias Lowry, and Silas Kent, alias Robert Kent, were convicted of having no lawful visible means of support. The evidence of Chief Detective Neil and other members of the police force was to the effect that the men were associates of thieves and prostitutes. Kent was the worst of the two, and he was sentenced to six months' hard labour Leroy, whose record was not so bad, was sent to gaol for two months.—A case, in which Augustus Kelly and Ellen Danby were accused of keeping a house frequented by persons having no lawful means of support, was dismissed. LYTTELTON. Friday, July 30. (Before John Ollivier, Eaq., E.M.) Civil Case. Thomas Johnston v. Captain M'Conville, claim £4, 12s. Mr Joyce for plaintiff; Mr Nalder for defendant. Plaintiff swore that he shipped on the schooner Onward last May at JE7 per month. The schooner went to Havelock to load timber. There, while engaged in loading timber, he met with an accident to his hand, and the captain told him to clear out from the vessel,; he did not want him. Johnston first went to a doctor at Havelock to get his hand attended to, as there was ho medicine on board. The doctor charged him 14s in all. Told the captain that he would not be fit to work for a fortnight. On this the captain told him to clear out, afterwards offering to give him his passage back to Ly ttelton, but without wages. Witness took JB3 14s 8d wages up to that date, and went ashore. He then waited for about nine or ten days and came on to Lyttelton on another vessel. Defendant's case showed that plaintiff appeared to be unable to steer the craft during a breeze off the Kaikouras, and that while at Havelock some work in stowing the vessel had to be done over again by the captain. Albert Doran and Alfred Ward, two of the crew of the schooner, gave evidence, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. ASHBURTON. Friday, July 30. (Before H. C. S. Baddeley, Esq.,R.M.) Civil Cases.—Steele v. Lake and Evans, claim £6 10s lid, a question arising out of work done ab the erection of a Bheep dip. Judgment was given for plaintiff.—Young v. Sawtell, claim £5 14s 6d, damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff at the hands of defendant, who had rented a house from plaintiff and left it in disrepair. Judgment for defendant and costs. In several unimportant cases judgment was given in default, and a case of trespass was heard, the taking of evidence in which lasted till late in the afternoon. !