MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4434, 14 August 1901, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. (Before Mr W. Jl. ilasddon, S.M.) William Darker, for drunkenness, was lined IDs, in. default forty*oigbt hours imprisonment. Tour other men were dealt with for the same offence. James F. Sullivan, an articled aa m man on the steamer Rirnutaka, was fined 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment, for disobeying the commands of the chief officer. For absenting himself from his ship without leave he was 01derad to pay 10s foi- the expenses of a substitute; and lor threatening behaviour on tine (Queen’s \\ barf he was ■ lined 20s, with expenses of a witness, bs, jit default seven days’ imprisonment. William Anderson and Albert Henry Pierso appeared on remand on a charge of the theft of throe blankets, value 20s, the property of Elizabeth McLennan. SuhJnspector Wilson said the men came from Gisborne about a month ago. They were living in a boarding-house hero. A friend paid their board and lodging. When they went away from the house the blankets wero missed. They sub seoiicnUy found in the defendants !><** session. Each. of the defendants was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment May Kennedy, charged with the Uieil of clothing from tho dwelling of John Fallool, was allowed to go with a lady officer of the Salvation Army, on enter iujpr into a bond o£ £lO to appeal' v. bf-u called upon. , In the case of somo children allogeu to have been neglected, the charge was withdrawn, as the parents had gone to Blenheim. . . In the following civil cases, judgment went for the plaintiffs by default: I.ovin and Co., Limited, v. Isaac Gu lu rio, claim £3B 8s 3d; Blackburno and Bendn.ll v. Charles L. Schuiole, £-8 »*> 8d; Stewart Timber, Glass and Hard ware Company v. Harry Smith, £0 Ids, A A. Corrigan v. George Chapman, -H liSs. In the judgment summons case, W Smart v. lal. Nelson, claim £lO iU>, an order was made for the payment ot 2Us per week. , . Tho hearing was continued of the case in which Arthur Henry Duff, dairyman, sued J. Kyle, of Lower Hutt for £6O as damages for breach, ot coi. tract. Mr Skerretfc appeared tor the plaintiff, and Hr Daisied for the defendant. There was a contract by whica the defendant agreed to supply the plaintiff with milk. lh° defendant, without notice, ceased to supply tlic plaintiff with milk. Evidence was given bv milk vendors called by the plain ill as to tho custom of the trade in regard to notice. The majority ot the wit. , nesses stated that the usage was for a month’s notice to bo given of the toi_ mimiCum of a contract. Hie pendant deposed that he informed the plaintiff ti.,at the agreement between them was not to bo subject to a month’s notice on cither side. He (defendant) had never go expected or’given a month’s notice for tho termination of a similar contract. Dairy fanners called as witnesses for the defendant denied that a month’s notice was customary. On tho conclusion ot Urn evidence tho case was adjourned till Friday, when legal argument will bo heard.