MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

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Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided vesterdav at the Magistrate's Court. On a charge of druhkenucss Michael Sheehan; a second- offender,- was fined Martha Gray was charged with drunkenness and with a breach oi a prohibition order, her third offence. The husband, a respectable labouring man, said he could do nothing with his wife so long as she lived in Clinstcluirch. Ho thought tho best, thing to do would be to go to a prohibited aroa. Tho Magistrate concurred in this view, and committed the -accused to Mount Magdala Home for a month, convicting and discharging her on both charges. ••;•■ , ' '. ■ -_, David Courtney, charged that on Decerate' 8 ho had assaulted Annie Courtnev so as to cause her. actual bodilv harm, and had also, assaulted Martha Courtney and Bah Toi, a Chinese, was remanded till the following day.' . : . Judgment-by default was given in the following civil cases for tho plaintiffs, with costs:— Ridley's Teas, Ltd. v. Francis J. Kerr, £3 7s 6d; Evans and Bull v. A. Maunder, £7O; North Canterbury Hospital and . Charitable Aid Board v. Josephine M. Ross, £o 8s; David Stranaghan v. W. J. Mayer, £5 10s; F. D. Kesteven v. Krneist Brown, £200: L. W. Balkind v. C. Courtney and E. Courtney, £7 10s sd; same v.' C. A. Hope and L. M. Hope, £2 19s 6d; same v. John Shore, £U 18s: New Zealand Suppliers' Exchange •v. J: Bryden, ' junr,, £32 ss4d ; L. W, Balkind'v. D..-B. Reidy, £5 10s; Carrick and Co. v. W. P. Duffy, £o lbs Id; same v. Samuel Wright, £1 Is. John Greenslade (Mr Hunt) claimed £32 from Charles Barnes (Mr Mpslev) as the price of top and bottom riddles on . a threshing plant. Plaintiff, a threshing.mill owner, and patentee orthe riddles, said that an arrangement had been come to in 1910 to supply the riddles, and the claim for payment had not been pressed for several years until the defendant had agreed to meet Greenslade -in town to talk the matter over, but had failed to attend. Defendant, a farmer at Cheviot, '" evl " deuce; 'said that the machine had been bought from - Anderson's,, fwith Greenslade's under-, dresser'attached, but it was unsatisfactory, and Greenslade had,agreed to nt a top-dresser to make matters right, the price, agreed, being £lO. It was •still unsatisfactory and had. been sold, and since then a new nnder-dresser.had been.fitted. Judgment was given for the plaintiff- for £l7 and costs. ;.'LYTTELTON,; ' '' V' 'Mr J. GalTaixl,.J.P., presided yesterday ni- tho "Magistrate's- Court at, ;Lytte,lton;":"• '; .-■ .: -■■•_'•;■• ---'- ;3 ; . ■•,. : •Annio "Wilson ".Wright was charged, with keeping a brothel, and Grace kv-aris Avas charged witli assisting in the management. The accused were, remanded until Tuesday next, bail being fixed at £2O in each case. ' <