MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9608, 14 March 1917, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr L. G. Reid. SJM., presided at the sittings of the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday. A number of first-offending inebriates were convicted and discharged. Isidore Jacobus, a habitual drunkard, was sent to prison for 14 days, in default of paying a fine of 40s. There was no room for him at Roto Roa, or he would have been sent there. William Wallace, a sturdy, grizzled old battler, to whom hard work failed to bring a homo, was brought up on a charge of vagrancy. Tho resources of civilisation seem to be unequal to the task of dealing with men like Walliam Wallace, who, like his famous ancestor, has an unquenchable spirit of independence. The magistrate had no choice but to send the old man to prison for 14 days. Michael Burke was convicted and ordered to pay costs 40s for deserting from his vessel tivo .years ago. CIVIL CASES. Judgment by default was given for plaintiffs in tho cases following:— Public Trustee v. Arthur Meal £8 2s 6d, and costs £1 6s 6d; W. Wylie v. G. Goldsmith £2 17s 4d and 10s- H. Webster and Co. v. Miss A. G. Williamson £1 9a 6d and ss; the British Imperial Oil Co.. Ltd. v. W. Duncan £1 17s 7d, and 12s; F. M. Thomson v. William Orozier £lO 6s 4d, and £1 10s 6d; same y, Frank Lambert .£3 Is, and 13s; Alfred Ponsford Dryden v. Mrs Annie Low- £l. and 6s. In a judgment summons case, W. Thompson was ordered to pay W. J. McLennan £ll 10s 6d by March 27th, or serve seven days in gaol. In thn defended case of M. O’Kune v. W. W. Crawford, a claim for £1 6s 6d, plaintiff was nonsuited ; Sims Hardware Co., Ltd. v. James Purchase, claim £2, plaintiff nonsuited, with £1 Is costs.