MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17949, 16 November 1918, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

. j CHRISTCHURCH. i Mi T. A. B. Jliiley. S.M., presided ! at the Magistrate’s CpMrt yesterday. I William Eckford, a third offender. ! was convicted and discharged on the proviso that he went out into the country. He was warned that a repetition of the offence would mean his committal to an inebriates' home. William Howell was charged with ! having been drunk and with having I broken his prohibition order. Ho was I lined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ j imprisonment on the first charge, and j was convicted aud ordered to come up i for sentence when called upon within j six month? on t.he second; • Murray Matthews, charged with j being an idle and disorderly prison, in I that he had no lawful visible means of support, was remanded until Monday. ! Leslie J. Mulianey, who was on rej mand on a charge that on or about I September 26, 1018. being the secrej tary of the Olive Branch Lodge of I Druids, Hornby, lie received the sum. of £3O from they Grand Secretary of ’the Order on terms requiring lum to account for it to the Local Deputy j Trr •?. Christchurch, and did fraudu- ; lent omit to do so. thereby commitI ting theft, was unable to appear on j account of illness- Mr Donnelly repI resented accused, and applied fob a : further remand until November 22. j Tnis was granted,, bail being allowed in two sureties of £IOO, The previous surety of accused of £2OO was not in- | aisred on on the ground that ns he was ! suffering from influenza it would not ; he right to ask anyone to visit him ! to have the bail bond signed. ASHBURTON. Mr V. G. Day, S.M., presided, at the Ashburton Magistrate's Court yesterday. Frank Anthony and 11. C. Hpbjohns, w•' o (i d not appear, Were each fined 20s with costs for exceeding the •miotor ■I jimit over the Ashburton traffic 1)1 H Tp. C. Collins, for . failing to have his ;r.’ ‘U -car properly numbered, was convicted and ordered to pay costs.

G-. H. Rooke n-as convicted find ordered to pay costs on a charge of a breach of his prohibition order. '

Judgment for N plaintiffs by default with costs was given m the following civil cases:—National Mortgage and Agency Company. Limited (Mr Buchanan), v. AY. J. AA r ard, Fairlie, £3 5s 8d; J. Millechamp and Sons (Mr Orbell) v. Thomas Harvey, Timaru, £6 12s 4d; Tucker’s. Ltd. (Mr Orbell), v. Beunisen Bros., Tinwald. £7 2s 9d. T. Blunden claimed £5, H. 0. Joy £6 Is, and C. F. Clarke £ll 19s from Nicholas Fitzgerald (Air Buchanan) for wages. Certain moneys had been paid into Court, and as the plaintiffs did not apnea r the cases were struck out and defendant was allowed expenses for four witnesses.