GERALDINE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 4 May 1926, Page 8

GERALDINE.

(From Our Own . Correspondent.) MAGISTRATE’S COURT. (Before Air E. D. Mosley, S.M.) MAI NTEN ANCE CASES. McGill v. McGill. Mr Earnie for plaintiff, said that in February defendant was to contribute 35s a week and £lO for ai-roai-.s, but had only paid £4. His AVorship ordered the defendant to be convicted and imprisoned witn hard labour for three months, the wairant to bo suspended if he paid forth-, with £lO on account of arrears, kept, up the current maintenance payment, and paid monthly instalments of £3, the. first payment of £3 to be made on, June 3. „ .. -1,1. In another case, Air Inglis said the parties had come to an agreement, anti lie asked the Court to amend the order in accordance with the agreement arrived at. —Granted. SHEEP CASES. George Brown, who did not appear., was charged with exposing for sale 45 lambs that were infected with lice.— Fined 20s and costs 14s. R. VI. Beattie, charged with a like offence in respect of 50 ewes and 60 lambs, was' fined CL", and "costs 13s. • C. AV. Markham, similarly charged with respect, of 31 store swes, appeared and said lie Intel-dipped; the sheep. He was fined 10s and costs. CIVIL .CASES, Angus Beil v. AVyVIe, claim £'s 1-s 6d.—Judgment by default with costs. CHARGE OF ASSAULT. R M. Allen (Air Onglev) was charged with assaulting J. M. Olive on two occasions. Mr Farnie appeared for ihe complainant, who was apprenticed to Mr Keeper, of Orari, as a jockey, and who deposed that defendant,_ who was Keeper’s head stable, boy, had assaultod him on two occasions, breaking the skin 011 his nose and bruising Ins back by a kick. . . ..... Defendant deposed that plaintiff would not do a.s he was told to do, and was cheeky. gPu one occasion complainant went to defendant’s hut and was cheeky, and lie gave hint a cuff and a slight kick as he went. His AA r orship said he did not think the assault was at ad serious, and he thought- that it was administered more as a correction. He dismissed the case under section 92 of the Justices of the Peace Act. ■