LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10752, 13 May 1898, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.-THUBSDAr. [Before Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M.] UNDEFENDED CASES.

Judgment for plaintiff was given yesterday in the following cases —Woodstock North Gold Mining Company v. E. Adams, claim £1 7s 3d, costs 5s j J. Burns and Co. (Mr. Thome) v. R. Cochrane, claim £75 Bs, costs £? 13s 6d; G. Fraser and Sons (Mr. McGregor) v. Seaver Bros., claim £21 19s 3d, costs £2 14s j G. Fowlds (Mr. Burton) v. H. G. Walmslcy, claim £2 lis 9d, costs £113s; John Allen (Mr. Burton) v. Wylie and Co , claim £85, costs £4 12s 6d; Dunningham and Co. (Mr. Gittos) v. M. Munro, claim £1 18s 9d, costs ss; W. H. Jackman (Mr. Gittos) v. J. Griffiths, claim £21 19s 9d, costs £3 Is 6d; Seivwright and Brodrick (Mr. Lusk) v. Victor Waihou Gold Mining Company, claim £5 7s lOd, costs £1 3s 6d; D. J. Whclan (Mr. Goldwater) v. J. Kerr, claim £11 18s, costs £1 12s 6d; J. Capill (Mr. Burton) v. G. Laird, claim £11 16s, costs £110s 6d; L. D. Tomlinson (Mr. Burton) v. P. A. Bell, claim £1 Is, costs ss; Hallcnstcin Bros. v. E. Hedley, claim £110s, costs ss; G. Mcßrido (Mr. Burton) v. E. Ooultas, claim £117s, costs ss.

CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. A. S. Minett sued G. S. Budge, of the Queen's Hotcl.Symonds-street, for the sum of £3 15s as commission on cigars sold. Plaintiff conducted Lis own case, and Dr. Laishley appeared for the defendant. After hearing the evidence, His Worship said he did not think he could give judgment for the plaintiff. There appeared to have been some talk of the plaintiff selling cigars on commission for tie defendant or his wife, but it did not seem that the evidence showed that there was a concluded agreement between them as to the price at which the cigars might be sold. Plaintiff would bo nonsuited, with costs £1 Is.

A FENCING ACCOUNT. James Jones v. Sir G. M. O'Eorke. In this case the plaintiff, a carpenter, claimed £7 2s as half the cost of a dividing fenco between a trust property occupied by the defendant and Mr. C. A. Harris' property. Mr. Baxter appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Hanna for the defendant. Mr. Harris stated that the defendant gave him (witness) permission to erect what sort of a fence bethought fit, and agreed to bear half the cost. The defendant denied there was such an arrangement, and said Mr. Harris had agreed to furnish an estimate of the cost of a fence, but had never done so. Plaintiff got his orders from Mr. Harris. His Worship said that on the evidence it did not seem to be' proved, as it must be proved before the plaintiff could succeed, that Mr. Hams was the defendant's agent in the matter. It was really a dispute between Mr. Harris and the defendant, and he did not see why the plaintiff should have been dragged into it. Plaintiff was nonsuited, with costs PA Is, i

POLICE COURT NEWS. DRUNKENNESS. At the Police Court, yesterday morning (Messrs. Prime and Shcppard, J.P.'s, presiding), three first offending inebriates were fined each ss, or in default 24 hours' hard labour. One man was charged with two offences, viz., being drunk, and behaving in an offensive mannei at the railway station. On the first charge prisoner was fined ss, or in default 24 hours; on the second 10s, or in default 48 hours. SEVEN YOUTHS IN TROUBLE. John Simons, Angus Calder, William Woolner, Ernest Clayton, Robert Bland, George Rogers, and Thomas Paliey, youths whose ages appeared to range from 15 to 20 years, were charged with being illegally on the premises of Messrs. W. J. and J. H. Dalton, trustees. It appeared from the evidence that the accused are in the habit of nightly congregating in a stable in Ponsonby, in order to play cards. They affected their entrance through a sort of shutter window at the back of the building. Mr. J. H. Dalton stated that access had been gained by breaking, and that he and his father were co-trustees for the stable, and had given no one permission to enter. The last time that witness had been in the place ho had shut both the door and the window. Another witness, who lived next door to the building, gave evidence to the, effect that he had heard the accused playing cards,, and using very bad language. The police made a raid on the place on Wednesday evening, and captured the abovementioned youths.' ■' Constables McDonald and Howell stated that there were a number of youths in Ponsonby who, whenever they saw the police approaching, would run away, calling out filthy names, and generally behaving in a disgraceful manner. Constable McDonald added that youths of this description were becoming a perfect menace to the place. The defence was that the accused did not play cards, but draughts, and that the place was rented in order to bold football consultations. A witness named J. A. Rogers Said he had rented the stable for 'two weeks from a Mr. Warwick, at the rental of 2s 6d per week, in order that a football club, to which some of the accused belonged, might, make their arrangements there. When asked tho name of the club, after hesitating for a while, witness said it had been called the Harden, last year. He did not know if it was going under the same name this year. He had paid two weeks' rental to Mr. Marwick's son, whom Sergeant Kelly stated to be a little boy of 12 years old.- The Bench adjourned the case till Saturday, in order to allow the accused and the witness Rogers to bring forward further evidence as to the truth of what they had stated. i'V. t '~' ■ .