CITY POLICE COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5734, 1 November 1905, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. (Before Dr A. McArthur, S.M.) Two first-oft'endinrr inebriates were each fined 10s. in default twenty-four hour«’ im prEon meat. Annie Courtney was fined 10s, and ordered to pay costs ls 3 in default three days’ imprisonment, for damaging some bottles of lemonade in a Chinese fruiterer’s bhop on Lumbton quay. Accused had heen before the Court on former occasions. James Williams, a native of Mauritius, was remanded till November Gth, on a charge of landing in tho colony, lie being a prohibited immigrant. Defendant came to tho colony as cook and steward of the steamer Blenheim. Ho said he shipped from Sydney for the ‘tun” only. Tho remand was grunted, in order that accused might bo returned to Sydney by steamer leaving on Saturday. The hearing of a case of theft against Charles Macdonald, charged with stealing a watch and chain, valued at £4, was adjourned till November 3rd. On tho application of Air Wilford, tho hearing of two charges of selling liquor without a license, preferred by the police against William Evans, was adjourned till Friday. William George Conway was remanded till Friday, on n charge of indecently assaulting .Arthur Evans, ten years of ago. An information preferred by Agnes Parsons against Joseph Frew, charging him with failing to provide maintenance for an illegitimate child, was dismissed wth costs (£2 2«). CIVIL BUSINESS.

Judgment was for plaintiff in each of tho following cases:—E. W. -Mills and Co. v. Rodgers and Fuller, £4 IGs lOd, costs 15s; Waimangaroa River Gold Dredging Co. v. E. Griffiths, £7 10s, costs 23s fid; Crease and Son v. Thomas AV’aiuwiight, £4 I3s 3d, costs 11s; Phelps, Wilson and Co. v. Thomas AVysocki, £24 Os 4d, costs £2 14s; J. Smith and Co. v. William Jeffries, £1 os, costs ss; same v. William John Spencer, £4 (is, costs 6s; Palmer and Co. v. William James Alatthews, £7 14s, costs 23s 6d • Plimmer and Devine v. Mary Garbot, £8 4s Id, costs 8s; Emma Ashmore v. Charles Oborg, £2 14s, costs 10s; F. W. Oakley v. Hugh Wall, £2 2s, costs 10s; same v. David Blair, £3 15s. costs 10s; Canada Cycle and Motor Co., Ltd., v. Alfred Duffoll, £22 3s, costs £2 18s; A. S. Patersou and Co. v. Octavius -Cook, £lO 8s lOd, costs £1 10s Ocl; Wellington Fishermen's C 0.,. Ltd., v. Lawrence Spyers, £47 Is lid, costs £3 5s 6d; Ellen Cillery v. John Hickman, £4 I6s, costs £1 12s. JUDGAIENTS. In tho case Peters v. tho King, a claim for £lO2 12s (3d for hire of coaches by the Railway Department and damage caused to same, during tho suspension of traffic on the railway lino last year between Ngahauranga and Petorie, owing to a “wash-out,” Dr McArthur said ho could not find from tho evidence that there was any contract or agreement on the part of the department to make good any damage done to plaintiff’s plant. Judgment would bo for £ls. with costs. Air Wilforcl appeared for plaintiff, and Air Myers for defendant. In the case Hunt v. Treadwell, a claim lor the return of certain articles, or in their place £lO, and £2 for damages, Dr McArthur said a genuine hire-purchase agreement was not within the Chattels Transfer Act, and did not require registration, inasmuch as it was not a document on which the title of the owner depended. If the lessor was tho owner before the agreement was entered into, and if in the agreement ho reserved tho right to resume possession, the goods remaining his property until all the instalments were paid, and if on examination tho circumstances showed the agremont to ho a correct record of the dealing, the Court would hold the document to be a hire-purchase agreement, and as such- not requiring registration. Tho contention that the agreement required registration was, in his opinion, untenable. Judgment would ho for tho return of the goods, and £2 damages for detention, or failing return £l2, wuth costs (£2 8s). Air Tanner appeared for plaintiff, and Air Findlay' for defendant. In the action Wilks v. Windley, a claim for £lB 11s, money said to ho lent by plaintiff in connection -with betting transactions, plaintiff was nonsuited, without costs. • Air Wilford appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Weston for defendant. DEFENDED CASES.

Alaodonald. AVilson and Co., represented by Air Stout, sued the Alarlhorough Brewery Co., Ltd. (Air Wilford), for the recovery of £SO, commission on the sale of tho lease of tho Alasonic Hotel, Havelock. Plaintiffs were nonsuited, with costs £2 10s. . The . same firm proceeded, against S. G. Radford for the recovery of £l6, commission on the sale of a section in the Buiok ©state, Petone. Judgment was for defendant, with costs (£1 Is).