THE COURTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 11

THE COURTS

DESERTING SEAMEN. By Telegraph—Pre» Aaaoeiatlan. „ WELLINGTON, April 29. Pleas of guilty were entered by two seamen, Bernard Holmes (21) and Gordon Notley (24), when in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, on charges of deserting the Northumberland at Wellington. Each was ordered to pay expenses incurred, £2/10/-, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Another seaman, Robert Charles Wilkins (25) admitted deserting the Ruapehu at Wellington, and also stowing away on board the Kaitoa at Auckland. Since leaving the Ruapehu, said Sub-Inspector Lopdell, Wilkins had been working on the coast. He stowed away in the Kaitoa and was arrested on the arrival of the ship in Wellington yesterday. On the first charge, Wilkins was ordered to pay costs, £2/10/-, in default seven days’ imprisonment; and on the second he was fined £5, in default fourteen days. SHEEP-STEALING CASE. By Telegraph—-Ar«<ct.\tion. DUNEDIN, April 29. The Supreme Court was again occupied to-day with the hearing of a charge of sheep-stealing against Gilbert William Lewis, of Central Otago. The case was unfinished, and was adjourned till to-morrow morning. THIRD PARTY LAW. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 29. “Is a wife, who is a passenger in her husband’s motor, and who is injured as a result of her husband’s negligence, entitled to recover damages from a third party, who is guilty of contributary negligence?” According to Mr E. Page, S.M., she is. The claim was by Mrs J. A. Rudge against H. N. Fearnley, arising out of a collision on a bridge near Pahautanui. The Magistrate held that both drivers were negligent. He awarded plaintiff £25, and costs amounting to £9/3/-. STOWAWAYS FINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. GISBORNE, April 29. Two young men—Kenneth John Evans (23) and Richard Waldeck Puls (2s—who stowed away on the Port Auckland at Sydney, were arrested upon the ship’s arrival this morning, and later in the Police Court were each fined £5. A SMOOTH RASCAL. By Telegraph—Press AsaacULlon. WELLINGTON, April 29. Gerald Thomas Silk (32), who, the Magistrate remarked, had a long criminal record, was sent to gaol for six months’ hard labour, concurrent on charges to-day of the theft of a wristlet watch and the theft of a suitcase. The watch he took from a lady who was knocked down in the street, and to whose assistance he went.