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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17199, 20 June 1916, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.)

On a charge of drunkenness William Henry Cain, a second offender, was convicted nnd discharged, and a prohibition order wa>s issued against him. Judgment for the plaintiffs, by default, with costs, was given in the fol-k-wing undefended cases:—Weeks, Ltd. v. Charles J. Etheridge, £2 9s; J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd JWilliam M'Eernan. £2 13s lOd; Hnrvey and Macdoiiatd v. H. Jamifeoh. £1 Ss 6d j Graham, Wilson and Smeliie v. Martin Fisher, £1 19s', H Bchumachor v. George Purdom, 10s 7d\ David Hay v. William Fox, £lO 5s 9d| B 'Woolley v. W. Glensor, £4; Sumner Borough Council v. John W. Bradley, £22 Us lid; same v. Ceo. Stringfcllow, £3 8s lid. Jones Bros.. Ltd. (Mr Ward), clnimccl £'l" 16=t Gd from Stanley William Marsh (Mr M. Donnelly), as instalments on a motor-cycle, repairs and accessories. Frank Cordory, accountant to .(ones Bros., gave evidence that the machine had boon sold to Marsh, who was to have paid a deposit of £2O, and monthly instalments. Tie had paid the deposit by instalments and £3 over. The firm 'finally seized the machine, from which several accessories were missing.' Defendant gave evidence that' lie bad bought the machine for a milk round, and as it did not suit he saw Harold Jones, who agreed to take it back, but asked him to keep it for a while.'as the show room was full of sccorifl-hnrid machines. Defendant's wife gave evidence that the machine could not start. It also churned the milk up, so much so that when the lid was lifted it was butter. Harold Jone>s, called at flic request of,Mr Donnelly, denied tolling the defendant not to re-•t-nrn the machine. Ho called four times at Marsh's. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £24 16s and costs. Edith Elisabeth gtapleion (Mr Donnelly) claimed £l3 from Samuel Charles Lawrence fMr Cnninghnm), as wages due as housekeeper. Plaintiff, a married woman,' said that she had worked for Lawrence from September till May, at 10s a week. Defendant, a billiard saloon keeper in Sydenham, said ho had emnloycd plaintiff as housekeeper at 10s a. week and had paid her every penny he owed her. In cross-examina-tion ho claimed to have bought certain goods for plaintiff and stopped them out of her wages. The Magistrate said that ■wares were a special category, and had" to be paid periodically. He doubted the defendant's statement, and would give judgment for £lO and costs. (Before Mr J. Jamieson, J .P., and Mr J. W. Baty, J.P.) Harry Belin appeared on remand charged with vhe theft of a quantity of galvanised iron, valued at £IOO, the property of Walter Llewellyn King, on Juno 13 last. Walter Llewellyn King. a hardware merchant oi Madras Street, Christchurch, said that between January 10 and 17 last he placed in his yard at Southwark Street fifty-two bundles of galvanised iron piping. On June 9 fast he saw it there intact. On June 13 he went again to the yard, and found accused, another man and a horse and cart there. There was nothing in tho cart. \\jtness asked him if tflie piping were his, to which he replied in the affirmative, saying lie had stored it there for two or three years, having previously purchased it for £.» from a man named 8011. He said that tho occupier of the house in front was giving up the premises. Of the fifty-two bundles forty had been taken away when witness arrived on the scene, The value of the iron was £IOO. Subsequently witness went with accused to a coppersmith's premises in Montreal Street and found the lnssing forty bundles. Accused sa ; d he would return them if witness would pay the carrier. Benjamin Charles Woolley, a licensed carrier of Southey Street, Sydenham, said that about 9 a.m. on June i.S accused engaged him from the railway station stand and took him to Southwark Street to remove some piping. Witness found he could not take tho whole of it at once, so removed a portion to the premises of White, a coppersmith, of Montreal Street. Witness took three trips altogether, and on returning to tlm yard the last witness arrived, and claimed the piping. Accused did not toll witness where Jhe obtained the piping. Witness heard accused say he would return the piping provided tho carrier was tvtid bv the. real owner. Detective O'Connor said that on June 13, in company with Detective-Sergeant Hunt. lie arrested accused. In '?nswor to questions accused said that he had bought the piping from n man named Bell for £lO. He said h« had no receipt from Bell, ho did not know him, and had only seen him once. While witness was talking to accused he offered to nay the carrier to take back the piping to tjie vard Inquiries revealed that a man named Bell had lived at the address given bv accused, but hakl died in February last. Accused pleaded guilty, and 'was committed to tl*e Supreme Court for sentence. LYTTDLTOX. Mr W., C. Clearv. J .P., presided at the Magistrate's Court at Lyttokou vesterday. , * James M'Michael, on a charge oi drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs.