MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18220, 7 October 1919, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH. Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., wag on the Bench at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. A first offender was convicted and fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, for being found drunk in Manchester Street on October 5. -A statutory first offender was convicted and fined 105,., or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, for being found drunk in Cashel Street on October 4. Prances Ellen Gore, a second offender, was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Peter Bryson was charged with committing a breach of a prohibition order by procuring* liquor during the currency of the order. He was also charged with being found drunk in Colombo Street on October 4. Sub-Inspector Mnllauy stated that it was the first breach of the order that had occurred for three years. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £2, or seven days’ imprisonment, for the breach of the order, and convicted and discharged accused on the charge of drunkenness. Mary Cnthfield, a second offender, was convicted and discharged on a charge of being found drunk in Lichfield Street, At accused’s request a prohibition order was issued, to operate over the whole of New Zealand for a period of twelve months. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—J. B. Smith v. Arthur Poison, £l2 2s; Cotton Bros., Ltd., v. Charles Young, £5 10s 6d; Arthur Boniface O’Brien v. Percy Oliver Shielton, £6 8sJ. Ballantyne and Co. v. Philip H. Beere, £9 4s 8d; E. B. Owen v. N. Tindall, £7 10s. A seven months’ old child, who waa shown not to he under proper control, was committed to the Christchurch Receiving Homo. KAIA'POX. At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Kaiapoi, before Mr V. G. Day. S.M., J. Hirst (Mr P. W. Johnstone) proceeded against T. R. Leithead with a claim for £2 10s for two ?ords of firewood. The case arose through the defendant, who was a member of the committee arranging a bonfire on Armistice Day, applying to Mr B. Lissaman, who, he believed, wa3 plaintiff's agent, for wood. for the fire. 'Mr Lissaman gave him to understand that plaintiff might have no objection to his taking branches or tops. The committee, requiring something more substantial than tops, took two cords of split wood, believing that when the plaintiff knew the object for which it ■was required he would not object. One of the cords of wood was claimed by Mr Walker and returned to him; the other oord was used to build up the iirc. The plaintiff stated that he had given Mr Lissaman no authority to giyp away firewood. B. Lissaman said that defendant had seen him about the wood, and he had told him there was not much chance of getting it; he could perhaps have the tops, but ho had no authority to give the wood away. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £1 ss. with costs 9s. *

J. Hirst (Mr F. W. Johnstone) sued G. Knight (Mr O. W. Thorp) for £1 12a 6d. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, with costs £1 2s. In the case J. Hirst v. F. Clark, a claim for 12s 6d. judgment was entered for the defendant.

A first offender charged with drunkenness was convicted and discharged.