RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 30

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Mr C. C. Graham, R.M., had before him yesterday week a civil case, in which Mr T. G. Bolton, solicitor, Wellington, as mortgagee, and Mr and Mrs Reed, as owners of the mare La Petite Fille, sought to recover possession of the animal from Mr A. Peters, the trainer, or LIOO, as its value. The defendant claimed that certain training fees were due to him, and after hearing a portion of the evidence, FI is Worship adjourned the case for a week. Mr Skerrett appeared for the complainants, and Mr T. Wilford for defendant. A civil action was commenced in tho Court yesterday week, in which Sir Walter Buller sought to recover the sum of L 25 from Messrs J. J. Curtis and Co,, the amount of damage alleged to have been done to a picture by the defendants in the course of carriage from the wharf to complainant’s office. The picture was by Keulliman,. of London, and was a representation in pastille and crayon of a group of New Zealand kiwis. The glas3 of the picture, it was alleged, had been broken lo pieces, and the picture itself scratched very badly. Mr Skerrett appeared for Sir Walter Buffer and Mr Gray for the defendant company. After hearing some of the evidence Mr 0. C. Graham, R.M.. adjourned the case tiff Tuesday, when His Worship gave judgment for defendant with L2 2s costs.

At the Magistrate's Court on Friday morning, before Mr C. C. Graham, R.M., a male first-offending inebriate was fined 53 or 24 hours' imprisonment in default. Chas. Pascoe, charged on warrant with obtaining a suit of clothes, value L 4, by false pretences from Isaac Booek on the 16th March, 1881, was remanded for a week. The further hearing of a charge of obtaining L 3 from Win. doggie by false pretences, preferred against Robt, Hill, was also adjourned for a week. Jas. Mills was charged on remand with stealing a watch and chain and other articles, valued at L 9, from the person of Geo. Laing, a gardener, of Tinakori road, at Wellington, on the 7th inst., and was committed for trial. The following orders were made for the. support of patients in the asylum Ten shillings a week against Geo. R. Stevens for the support of his sister; 7s 6d a week against Alfred Geo. Harris for the support of his wife; 5s a week against Lewis Moore for the support of his wife ; and 2s 6d a week against Geo. Galbraith for the support of his wife. The Resident Magistrate, Mr C. C. Graham, had before him on Friday a case in which two boys, named respectively Fredk. Liardet and Thomas Bowden, were charged with stealing 12lbs of apples, valued at 3s, the property of Wm. Baker. The youngsters admitted the offence, and were sharply lectured by His Worship, who said there had been great complaints lately of orchards having been robbed. Boys were inclined to think that they could do this sort of thing with impunity, but that was not the case. He did not want to send the boys to prison, and he would dismiss the charge on their parents giving him an undertaking to have the youngsters soundly thrashed. Subsequently, however, His. Worship fined the defendants 10s each, with the alternative of a week’s imprisonment, remarking that the maximum penalty to which they rendered themselves liable was a fine of L2O, or six months' imprisonment. A civil case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon, in which Thomas Longhurst, of Wellington, sued Mr Carolan, Wellington, late manager of the Western Australia Property Company, for LlO 2s 9d, wages alleged to be due. The plaintiff canvassed on behalf of the defendant company in Wellington for the sale of some land in Western Australia. He succeeded in disposing of a portion of it, and now claimed for wages to the above amount. The question which arose was as to whether the local manager of a firm was responsible for the wages of people employed, and after hearing argument His Worship (Mr C. C. Graham, R.M.) reserved his decision until Thursday. Mr Jellicoe appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Skerrett for the defendant.

The man Robert Edward Andrews, who was arrested by Detective Ede on Saturday at the Lower Hutt on the charge of stealing a quantity of silverware from the Criterion Hotel, Blenheim, between the months of June and December, 1887, was charged with the offence before Mr C. C. Graham, R.M., on Monday morning. On the application of

Inspector Pender, lie was remanded to Blenheim, where he will be brought up on the 24th inst. Bail was fixed at a personal bond of LSO and one surety of a similar amount. In the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning, before Mr C. C. Graham, R.M., and Mr J. Lachman, J.P., a man named Chas. Davies, fishmonger, was charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart on the road between Makara and Wellington on the 10th inst. He was fined 10s, with the alternative of 48 hours in gaol. Neil Miller was charged with failing to comply with an order of the Resident Magistrate’s Court to pay 2a 6J a week towards the support of Wm. Miller. The money was, however, paid into Court, and the case was’ dismissed. J. P. Worth was ordered to pay 5s a week towards the support of Bridget A. Worth. Jas. Jones and Chas. Neilson were charged with using a net for taking fish at the mouth of the Hutt river near Pe.tone on the 6th inst. Mr Gray appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Jellicoe appeared for the defendant Jones. Af-.er hearing a portion of the evidence, the case was adjourned until the 24th inst. Mr H, W. Robinson, It. M., sat in his private room on Tuesday afternoon hearing a case in which George Andrews charged Cesari Pierotli with using threatening language towards him on the 21st January, and prayed that he be bound over to keep the peaco. Mr E. G. Jellicoe appeared for the complainant and Mr J. W. Poynton defended. In view of the conflicting nature of the evidence, His Worship dismissed the case. A case was heard in the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, before Mr C. C. Graham, R M., and Mr J. Lachman, J.P., in which John Do Mey Do Alkemade, drill instructor to the Education Board, was charged on two informations with a breach of the by-laws of the Government railway. Mr Gully appeared to prosecute and Mr Gray defended. The case for the prosecution was that on the Ist inst. defendant took a return ticket from Wellington to Greytown and travelled by train a 3 far as Featherston, proceeding the remainder of the distance by road. On the 3rd he travelled by the train from Greytown to Wellington, using the return half of his ticket, the other portion of which he had not given up at Featherston, a 3 the by-laws permitted him to break his journey after proceeding over 20 miles. Then on the 7th, the day on which it was alleged the offence was committed, defendant purchased a single ticket to the Upper Hutt and travelled as far as Greytown, thus using twice over the first half of the return ticket between the Upper Hutt and Featherston. Defendant explained that on the 25th January he t.ok a return ticket from Wellington to Greytown, but only used it as far as the Upper Hutt. When travelling to Greytown on the 7th he thought he used that ticket, but said he could not now find that ticket. The Bench thought a breach of the bylaws had been committed. They did not think Mr De Mey’s explanation _ was entirely satisfactory, but they would give him the benefit of the doubt and impose a nominal penalty of Is, together with 23s costs. Messrs C. W. Brown and J. Culby, J’s.P., presided at the fortnightly sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt on Wednesday. Three lads—A. JenneßS, G. Archer and A. Strang—were charged with having caused annoyance and disturbance at the residence of Mr Lee, School Inspector, Lower Hutt, on 14th January, by knocking at the door at 10 o’clock at night. Practically the offence was admitted, and they were each fined Is and costs 6s, the Bench at the same time administering a sharp rebuke to accused and warning them against a repetition of the offence. Accused were also charged with throwing atones on to the roof of a house at Lower Hutt on same date. The charge was dismissed. Charles Gough and A. H. Silverwood were charged by F. Moorehouse, Acclimatisation Society’s ranger, with having on 12th February last trespassed upon the property of W. A, Fitzherbert at Lower Hutt with gun and dogs in pursuit of game. Mr Gray appeared for informant, and Mr R. O. Kirk for accused. The case was dismissed. The charge against John Devine of having supplied a shilling’s worth of whisky to a person against whom a prohibition order had been issued wa3 dismissed. Mr Bunny appeared for accused. On ths civil side, J. W. Powell and Co. obtained judgment against B. Connolly for L 3 6s lOd, costs Bs, and A. Clark, LI 12s sd, costs 6s ; Mr Bunoy appearing in each case for plaintiff. At (he sitting of the R.M. _ Court on Wednesday,, before Mr R. M. Simpson, J.P., a man named. Joseph .Millburn, charged with having committed an indecent action on the platform of a carriage on the Government Railway on the 21.st December, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment.