MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 29

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Yesterday week at the Magistrate's Court Hannah Morris was charged with supplying liquor to Mrs Thomas, a prohibited person. After hearing evidence Mr Martin fined tho woman 10s, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. George James Eden, alia* " Dr Rcid," was charged with having obtained .£2 from John Tranter, of Christchurch, by means of a valueless cheque. He was remanded to Christ church to appear thero next Friday. Pail was allowed in two sureties of .£ls each. Tho young woman Annie Conrad, charged with stealing photos and fancy ornaments valued oils, the properly of Huntly Elliot, and a quantity of clothing valued £l, the property of Mrs Strang, was convicted on the first charge, and on the second she was remanded till the afternoon, when she admitted taking the articles from Mi*3 Strang. Mc Martin remanded her for tho Probation Officer's report. A protection order and custody of the children was made for Mrs Pink against her husband on account of his habitual drunken habits, and an order for the payment of 3s was also made against tho man.

A man-o'-war's man and a sailor from tho steamer Matatua, who had evidently boen imbibing, wero wending their somewhat crooked way along the watermen's jetty yesterday week, when one of them overstepped the bounds of prudence and tho quay and fell [headlong into tho harbour. The other man immediately jumped in after him. Constables Johnston and Murphy, who were in the vicinity, made various attempts at rescue, which were not successful. Each timo they proffered tho kindly hand of assistance and attempted to grasp tho men by the collars the latter immediately clucked under tho water and came up smiling some distance away. This was kept up for somo time to the delight of a large crowd of people. Erentually Constable Johnston threw a rope with a nooso to it, and succeeded in catching one of them, and hauled him to shore. Tho otlier, seeing; no fun in swimming alone in somewhat chilly water, came out. Tho sailor from tho warship was taken charge of by some of his mates, but tho other was taken to the look-up, and was charged with drunkenness at the Court next morning and lined 10s. On tho civil side, Mr Martin gavo judgment for plaintiffs by default in tho following cases :—Wellington Commercial Agency v. Jas. Hamilton, £3O Is Id, costs £3 Is Od; H. Hume and Son v. G. 1). Hamilton, £1!) 13s Id, costs .i'2 3s u'd ; J. and N. Salmon v. S. Donkin, £1 15s lid, costs lis ; same v. G. Snow, £slss lOd, costs XI 8s (id ; Dodgshun v. W. J. Graham, £9, costs £1 5s (ii ; Commercial Agency v. lv. MeKenzio, £7, costs £1 5s (Id ; same- v. J. Haylock, £2 15s 7d, cents lis. Judgment summonses—G. 11. Fisher v. P. lveurnoy, claim £7 2s Od. Defendant ordered to pay amount forthwith or in default 21 days' imprisonment. Thomas Noavo v. John White, £4 lGs, defendant ordered to pay the amount forthwith or to undergo 12 days in goal. Commercial Agency v. J. H. Palmer, claim £2O Bs. An order was made for the amount to be paid forthwith, or in default six weeks' imprisonment, tbo ordo? to bo suspondod if £lO lie paid on Ist July, and tho balanco on the Ist August. In tho defended case Ellon Pascoo v. R. Dumber, claim £•!• 15s, judgment was given for the defendant. In tho case Patrick Parry v. 1 hairy Fielder, claim £5 8s Od, judgment was given for the defendant, who put in a counter claim for 13s. At the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morn ing Rebecca McLachlan and Thomas Fame wero charged with drunkenness, and wore fined 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment. Annie Conrad, who had been convicted on two charges of theft and remanded for the Probation OfHcor's report, was again before tho Court, when Mr Garvey said that ho could not report in her favour. Mr Martin, S.M., sentenced tho girl to two months' imprisonment on each charge, the sontences to be concurrent.

Judgment was given for plaintiffs in tbo following civil cases :—Commercial Agency Company v. J. Pott, £8 3s, costs 10s ; Teresa Priggs v. A. Walcot, £-1, coHts £1 14s;' Oilieial Assignee v. Ferris, £8 10s 7d, costs 10s ; J. Varcoe v. T. L. Ward, £8 5s 3d, costs £1 5s Cd ; M. C. Merlet v. Kani Hori, £8 10s, eotts £2 Oh Od ; A. Collins v. J. W. Bull, M (is, costs lis; the Collier Company v. T. Drummond, L 7, costs £1 lis Cd ; same v. R. P. E. Mansfield, JJI9, costs £2 Is Gd ; Rigg and Whittaker v. C. Kent, £\\ 10s Bd, costs £\ 15s Od ; South Pacific Loan Company v. T. .1. Gardiner, £l, costs lis; Commercial Agency Company v. E. McCarthy, £2 3s 6d, costs lis; same v. G. Harford, £1 Cs 3d, costs Os ; same v. J. Williams, Ills Od, costs 0s ; Oilieial Assignee v. H. Greer, £1 4s 4d, costs Os ; Stewart and Co. v. J.sJorris,£9lßH, costs 13s. In the defended case A. Sample v. Lichfield and P. Smith and Co., claim £lO, Mr Martin appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Quick for defendant. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £3 10s and costs £1 12s. T. Parkinson, of the Central Hotel, Woodvillo, has been fined .£lO for allowing drunkenness on his premises, and his license was endorsed ; and William Ebbett, a prohibited person, was fined £'i for drunkenness. At the Christchurch Court last week - , a butcher named G. W. Bryenton was charged with having prepared and possessed for sale meat unfit for human food. 'The evidence for tho prosecution, which was instituted by tho City Council, showed that a son of Bryenton had removed portions of tho carcase of a cow which had died f'rem tuberculosis, and the meat was found in a tub in defendant's back yard, The defenca wa^

that the meat was intended for fowl feed, and that the dofendant himself had been | unaware of its being on his premises. Evidenco was also given that the meat was not cut in the manner it would have been had it been intended for stile. The case was dismissed. Henry Vincent Martin, who at Auckland fired a revolver out of his bedroom window, the bullet wounding a young girl named Edith Ellen Williams in the leg, has been discharged by tho Magistrate. At Dunodin All Kuin, alias Gum Git, was committed for trial on a second charge of immorality. An elderly man, Kenneth Black, has been committed for trial at Auckland on a charge of forgery. Thomas W. Seaman, late Town Clerk tor Birkenhead Borough Council, Auckland, and rate collector to tho Pukoatua Road Board, lias been committed for trial oil a charge of having stolon certain moneys, tho property of these bodies. Ho reserved his defence. Bail was allowed. James Mollison, draper, was fined 50s and costs at Dunedin on three charges of employing girls on Saturday afternoon.