MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14973, 20 April 1909, Page 5

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, April 19. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness.—Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5s and costs, one was ordered to pay 10s medical expenses and as an alternative xvas offered forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. The other was given the usual option of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Drink and Complications. Angus M’Donald was charged with having been drunk and with, having used .obscene language in Manchester

Street. He denied the first charge, but offered no defence to the second. He was fined 4.0 s and costs, in default one month’s imprisonment, for the bad language, and was convicted of drunkenness.

Remanded —Henry Jarvis (Mr Donnelly) appeared on remand in answer to a charge of having been about to leave Christchurch without having made provision for the future maintenance of a child then unborn. Sub-In-spector M’Gratb said that the warrant was issued in October, and since then the child had been born. The accused was remanded till April 22 to allow a new complaint to be laid. He was allowed bail, himself in £SO and one surety of £SO. Judgment bt Default.— ln each of the following cases judgment with costs was given for the plaintiff by default:— C. E. Otley (Mr Rowe) v. J. Carson, 12s (costs only); Christchurch Meat Company (Mr E. T. Harper) v. J. Connolly, £5 12s 6d; Cyclone Woven Wire Company (Mr Weston) v. T. W. Narbey, £7 12s 9d ; Smith Brothers (Mr Rowe) v. J. Ooxhead, £6 6s Id; the liquidators of the United Farmers’ Coal Company (Mr Gresson) v. P. Gill, £3 14s; same v. Edward Hope, £5 7s; W. Strange and Co. (Mr Flesher) v. George Shaw, £1 19s lid; same v. C. E. Weir, £ll 10s 6d; Cyclopedia Company (Mr Flesher) v. J. H. Brewer, £4 4s; W. A. Tribe and Co. (Mr Dougall) v. F. Guy, £3 ss; same v. James Chapman, £2 10s; Magnus Sanderson and Co. (Mr Moslov) v. William R. Anderson, £23 12s 3d; J. H. Wilton (Mr Mosley) v. A. Hansen, jun., £24 6s; F. C. Raphael (Mr Raphael) v. V 7. L. Batt, £39 10s. Cycle Troubles. —The New Zealand Cycle Company (Mr Weston) claimed 9s from W. S. Burt (Mr Leathern) for cycle accessories. The defendant denied that he had received the goods, and judgment was given for the defendant without costs.

Withdrawn.— The liquidators of the United Fanners’ Coal Company (Mr Gresson) sued Mrs T. H. Scaliy for the recovery of £4 14s for coal delivered. Mr Beswick appeared for the defence, and disputed the whole arhount. The manager of the plaintiff company had absconded, and the defendant produced a number of receipts given by an agent named Saunders, who had died since. Mr Gresson admitted that no credit for payments had been shown on the company’s books. Mr Gresson withdrew the claim. A similar claim by the company against J. W. Smith (Mr Malley) for £5 14s 6d was also withdrawn. Costs were allowed in both cases.

Judgment Summons Cases. J. F. Sendall, executor of the estate of E. K. Straw, applied for an. order against Archibald Auderton George Gledhill, land and estate agent, for £36 Ss 7d, alleging fraud. The creditor alleged that £35 8s 7d had beeu paid to the debtor for a specific purpose, and he

had used it in another way. The debtor admitted that he had paid the money under pressure from another source. The debtor was ordered to pay the amount, in default one month’s imprisonment Cooper and Duncan (Mr Johnston) asked for an order against F. Betts, labourer, in satisfaction of a judgment for £5 Is 7d. Defendant said that he had to keep six children, whoso ages ranged from sixteen to five years. No order was made.