MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS. Yesterday’s sitting of tho Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. For drunkenness Clara Algar was convicted and discharged, and a prohibition order to take effect for twelve months was iss’acd against her. Michael Driscoll was fined LOs, or three days’ imprisonment; Thomas Watson, was mulcted in the sum of £2. or seven days’ imprisonment. For importuning, Mary Brown, Mary Collins, and Mary Johnson were convicted and each fined £l, in default one month’s imprisonment. Kathleen Brady admitted having entered the Terminus Hotel during the currency of a prohibition order, but she pleaded not guilty to a charge of importuning. On the first charge she was convicted and fined £l, in default one month’s imprisonment. A similar penalty was imposed on the second charge. Roderick Finlay&on and Oharles McKinnon were each convicted of using threatening behaviour in Lambton quay, whereby a breach of tho peace was occasioned. A fine of £l, in default seven days’ detention, was imposed. ' Arthur Hathenvell, a blue jacket, pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecency. Ho was, however, convicted and ordered to he handed over to the naval authorities. CIVIL BUSINESS.

Judgment by default, with costs, was given by Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases: —N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., v. C. M. Ellison, £2 14s 3d, costs 12s; P. Hayman and Co. v. J. Duncan, £6 9s lOd, costs £1 8s 6d; Harry Laker v. Richard John Page, £1 15s, costs 9s; Veitch and Allan v. John Marshall, £22 2s 6d, costs 16s; same v. B. Bronkhurst, £3, costs 10s; United Fanners’ Co-operative Association v. John Ropata, £lO 14s lOd, costs £2 3s Gd; “N.Z. Times” Co., Ltd., v. Martin Ellison, £4, costs 10s; W. E. Tomlin v. Millicent Mannersby, 9s, costs 2s; P. Hayman and Co. v. Arthur Dunn, £4 14s 2d, costs 10s; ‘‘N.Z. Times” Co., Ltd., v. J. O. Lane, £36 7s 6d, costs £2 14s; P. Hayman. and Co. v. Emma Johnston, £4 Os 3d, costs 10s; Henry Fielder and Co. (in liquidation) and Carlyle Beatson Robertson (liquidator) v. Margaret Wedderspoon, £SO 8s lid,, costs £4 Is 6d; Dalgetv and Co. v. M. J. Hasler, £44 13s 7d, costs £2 17s; Vacuum Oil Proprietary, Ltd., v. S. B. Hurd, 16a. costs 6s; same v. C. J. Ellison, £2 10s 9d, costs 10s; Hill and Barton, Ltd., v. Mrs Whale, £1 3s lOd, costs ss; Commercial Agency, Ltd. (assignees) and Thomas Horton, Ltd. (assignors) y. Christopher Soott, £1 12s, costs 6s; same v. R. Lydford, 14s lOd, costs 55.; C. and A. Odlin, Ltd., v. Thomas Alfred Eagle, £2 17s 7d, costs 7s; M. Walsh v. Norman Stone, £5 3s 2d, costs £1 3s 6d; Macky, Logan, and Caldwell v. W. L. Biennerhassett, £4, costs 10s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES,

Stephen Bray was ordered to pay Wellington Drivers’ Union £2 by March 26th; Charles Stephens to pay Selene Moore £4 Is Id by March 26th ; Te Koroneho to pay Empire Loan and Discount Co. . £ls 6s 8d by March 26th; Harold A. Oliver to pay E. F. Jones £3 6s by March 26th.