MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18408, 14 May 1920, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH. Mr S. E. M’Car thy, S.M., presided at yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court. Two first offenders were each lined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness. In each of the following cases judgment, with costs, was entered for the plaintiff by default:—Frank W. Mathows v. Albert Way, £24 17s od ; Booth, Macdonald and Co- v. Nathaniel Brown. £33 12s; H. Pannell and Co. v. J. R. O’Connor, £5 10s; Rink Taxis, Ltd. v. A. E. Way, 13s 6d; same v. Emily Moffett, £1 9s. In E- J. Streeter (Mr Holmes) v. JW. Irving (Mr Rowe), application for a judgment summons order for £l9 ss, the Magistrate refused to make an order on the judgment summons, but varied the original judgment to make the amount payable at the rate of os a week.

H. H. Ellis was ordered to pay F. I>. Kesteven (Mr Thomas) £6 Os 3d within three weeks.

Catherine Begg pleaded guilty to having broken panes of glass to the value of £1 at the Mount Magdala Home. She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. She also was ordered to report to the Probation Officer once a week and to make good the damage she dia at the home.