LAW AND POLICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11878, 1 February 1902, Page 6 (Supplement)

LAW AND POLICE

• '. SUPREME COURT.—FnrDAT. ' - ' His Honor Me. Justice Ooxour held a sir- 1 -f ting in, chambers yesterday .forenoon;• Probate: Probate was granted ito the cecutors named in the wills "of Samuel PMiSI (Mr. J. C. Martin), Thomas Belcher (Mr S Clayton), Benjamin- ' Moore Murrav fAr. Nicholson), William Henry Madill (Mr. Han : na), John Robert Lever 5 (Mr. Luskl' RaJ Powell 1 Williams (Mr. ; I Campbel), Edward *T Robert Faithful Levert (Mr. Thome), J a s 1 : biet Halvorson (Mr. Stewart), Eugene' 1 WoT--' 'h 1 I (Mr. Stewart), Honry Nicholas Quick fMV ; § I Stewart), Robert )Shcddaril (Mr.- McGregor!* I Alexander James Finlayson (Mr. MoGrewJ' : 'ft? ? Robert Arthur Bullen (Mi. Jackson). •< Edwin Collins (Mr. Burton), John BlinmS Bull (Mr. Clayton), George Henry Wilw,(Mr. Earl). , Renewals of probate SwSSW granted in the estates of J. W. E. deMontaiu(Mr. Baume); Henry Gladding (Mr. Clayton) - r ' Administration: ,■-Letters of . administration were granted in tho estates} of James Robin son (Mr. Gribbin), John Watts (Mr. Stewart)" Mary Frances Harriet Mitcliokrm. (Mr. Clav ton), James Wyntt (Mr. Newton), Murdoch I .Sinclair, with will annexed i (Mr. McGre-rartJrl William Frederick Rayncs (Miv Pair),- Jospril Si v Isaac (Mr. Parr). A renewal .of letters cf administration was granted .'in tho 'estnt® «*-" ' ' . Susannah Bcdgood (Mr. Pa^)S|i||»>Si|ip; Real Estate: An order was granted to sell i real estate re Mary Bindall, deceased. > ■ Marriage Act, 1880: Mr. Tole moved for ' an order, in terms of petition of F. M. JW \ that, a marriage herein bo a uioper one | Execution: On tho motion of Air: J A*l|]| Beale, leave was granted to issue a char'sto? ; • 1 order and execution ro John Abbott -v. R S. Hall and others. *' * Other business was ordered to stand ove.- ■ ' * till next sitting. , ' POLICE COURT NEWS. Mr. Thomas Hutchison, S.M., ' was the' • presiding magistrate at yesterday's • sittingW of the Police Court. ■ Furious Driving: A fine oi 40s and ' costs was inflicted on a young man named Win Parker, who pleaded guilty to a charge of furiously driving a vehicle in Green Lane ' Cruelty: A tram-driver named ' Gilbert Elliot s pleaded not guilty wheu charged that he did, on December 25 of last year, cruelly ill-treat a horse, by working it while suffering from a sore on the near hind leg. The defendant was represented by Mr. J. 11. Reed. Evidence in support of the prosecution was tendered by several • witnesses, who deposed that the horse in question had a small sore on one of its M legs, but they could not " testify whether i'l the animal was suffering pain from ; the effects of tho sore, as it: gave evidence of, . ' having been properly attended to. "His til Worship eventually dismissed the informa- :- rr -x .tion. ■ .... ; By-laws: For riding a bicycle on the footpath at Mount Eden, Blanche McDonald £®t was fined ss, and 7s costs. ■ . . Wilful Damage: Joseph Mitchell- was : Mf:. charged' with wilfully breaking a pane of S'| glass, valued at 4s, the property of Martha Green. Accused pleaded ; not guilty. His l Worship said that, taking into consideration®! all the circumstances of tho case he was I inclined to deal with the accused leniently, :: | and impose a nominal fine of 5s and costs. 1 J A Savage Dog: A coloured man named |f|| Peter Gomez was charged that 'ho? was th» £$£ I owner of a dog which in a highway did I attack Thomas Tremaine. Prosecutor, who I is an aged man, told the Court that lie was • f proceeding along - Grey-street 1 early on the ' | morning of December 27,1901, when a poodle | belonging to tlio defendant, in an infuriated: j state, rushed out of a house ' and bit witness , I on the leg. Defendant was fined 20s, .and -. | 17s costs. . 1

Various other cases set down for hearing v I were adjourned. * '■ " I