MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5293, 3 June 1904, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2. (Before Dr A. -McArthur, S.AL) CRIMINAL. Drunkenness. —X'oq-r first offenders were convicted and discharged. James ixhodes, deemed io ue an idle and disordeily person having iiismuciont jawful means ol support, was sentenced ,o fourteen days imprisonment. Jfrora Jie statements made by the police, it appears the man has a wife and hu.i iy somewhere in ihe North Island, hire they refuse to have anything to do with nim on account of his drinking Im.iits. During the past couple of weeks he had been sleeping in a cave at Oriental Bay and in tho tramway waiting-shed at fiiorndou. Ernest Schultz pleaded not guilty to an information preferred against him by die inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charging him with cruelly ill-treating a horse on May 17th. Defendant is an expressman. It was stated in evidence by John McKie, veterinary surgeon, that when he examined the animal in question it was suffering from fistulous withers, an exceedingly painful complaint that was aggravated by every movement of the horse when harnessed. A fine of £2, and costs (£3 12s), was imposed.

Two youths named Arthur Pearce and Arthur Backhouse admitted damaging an oven, the property of Howden Bros., to tho extent of £lO, on May 00th. Ghiof-Deteotive McGrath explained that accused wore employed at a biscuit factory in Victoria street. On tluS date mentioned, they placed a piece of iron in a chain working an oven, with tlie result that a large batch of biscuits was destroyed and twenty hands were thrown out of work for four or five hours. He did not think the lads fully understood tho gravity of the. offence, otherwise they would not have'committod it. ‘They wanted a spell,” he said, “and of course they got it!” Accused were convicted and discharged. CIVIL CASES.

Judgment was for plaintiff in each of tho following uncfcfcudod actions:—E. Reynolds and Co. v. Charles Lowe, £5 2s, costs £1 5s Gel; Anton Naunostad v. William D. Haggett, £3 2s Jd, costs £1 os bd ; Oakley and Rickard v. William B. Carhill, £1 Hs, costs ss; Mrs Lord v. August Stafford, £l 18s sd, costs Gs; H. Price and Co., Ltd., y. George Kinsbere £1 10s sd, costs ss; Wairarapa Farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd., v. .John Arthur. £Ol 4s lid, costs £5; Wellington Building Trades Union v. Charles Oberg, £2 Is, costs 10s; Dr Young v. Benjamin Chambers, £1 12s, costs 10s; Commercial Agoucy, Ltd., v. Samuel 11. • Howie and Charles M. Caldor, £39 3s sd, costs £2 17s; Wellington Fresh Food and Ice Co. v. Henry Tavins, £1 13s Gd, costs ss; same v. Frederick Sago, £2. 10s 9d, costs ss; James O. Cunliffo v. Patrick Kearney, £3 7s 5d costs 10s; George Goldstein v. Reynold B. Crump, £3 19s 3d, costs 13s; Laory and Co.. Ltd., v. Chong Lee, £lO 0s 6d. costs 15s (with immediate execution); Veitch and Allan v. Charles H. 'Smith, £3 4s Bd, costs 13s. *

In the case of Henry Gray Cambridge v. John G. Heslop, a claim for £27 7s 9d. value of a typewriter, judgment was for plaintiff, for whom Mr Von Haast appeared, for £22 8s 3d, and costs (£4 2s).