COUNTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 9

COUNTS.

-■ • ... . " ' - /" - [BT TELEGRAPH.— correspondent.! £', ~: .V/Ai H t. ;; Tuesday, ; -. r: At; the Police Court this morning (Mr. F. . *. J. Burgess, S.M., presiding) Thomas Mathre- - son: was convicted ar.d-fim?d 5s and costs-for _~,• being found on licenser. 1 premises during pro- : -'>. .■" hibited-hours.' For breaking'a,: street lamp; ;;■. the property of the Waihi Borough Council, n w a lad named Edward BiOWn was convicted * and ordered to pay the costs and price of the' lamp, in ail 15s. An elderly , m#n named '; Robert Stewart, found guilty of being ..a : disorderly perron tind soliciting alms, was;;.-• sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. -..■■■ .-..-.-i -._, : }_:'-Z ; Mr. • Burgess also < presided over a'> sitting '.:. of the Magistrate's Court, the cases dealt. with being as follows —Cashmore Bros, and :."•" •lucid v. W. J. Gray, claim £35,'4d' for . ■* timber defendant counter-claiming - '.£520 10s.3d'alleged to have been expend- ; •*"' ed in procuring timber. to replace portion of .. that supplied by plaintiffs, which defendant : '■ said had been condemned as unfit for use. ■',■* The magistrate' in giving his reserved deci--sion, referred to the contradictory nature, s£, ,-, the evidence of. the principals in the.«as»-r on material 1 , points. Ho. would decide tie : ! matter on the .weight of evidence, which ho ." considered Was in favour of the:.plaintiffs^.. I '/. and judgment would be jjiven for them fcrrr - -' 1 the amount claimed-(£3!H» W),-and;cOßtfi v : :■' £5 19s. In the counter-claim Gray Was riou- ;:* suited. F. Aley v. It. Biilmer,' claim. £4 fe U. counter-claim £-1 19s 6d: . Judgment for ~, plaintiff for £1 l&a 6d, and costs 6s. „ , • ■ ~- . " •• ■ * * -.- .' '■;.-"■ ..• * ■'•■ •;>-ti%M; .- 1111 " :.7Trt-r-rr——-"