MAGISTERIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8833, 21 January 1907, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH

Monday, January 21. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness; — Four first offender? were each, fined 5&, in default twentyfour hours' imprisonment. • A Careless Sportsman. — Sydney Lewis Murton (Mr Cassidy), for setting fire to tussocks growing upon the property of William Hawkins, on the Cashmere Hills, was fined 20s and ordered to pay £2 for the damage done, in default one "month's imprisonment. Judgment by Default. — In the following cases judgment with costs was given for the plaintiffs by default : — The Mas-sey-Harro Company. Limited (Mr Wright), v. John Smith, £11 18s 3d ; H. Brabner and Sons (Mr Johnston) v. R. Wakelin, £5 10s; Henry Berry and Co. Mr Flesher) v. J. Corbett, £2 14s 9d ; J. Robinson and Sons (Mr Muff) v. Stimpsc-n and Connor, £1 12s lOd; F. D. Kesteven (Mv Leathern) v. Daniel Malioney, sen., £16; J. A. Redpatn and Son y. Robert Weatherall, £32 18s sd ; same v. W. H. Thomson, £5 18s 9d (to be paid at the rate of £1 per month). Depended Case. — J. A. Redpath and Son claimed £7 4s from John Leggatt for goods supplied. It was shown that the defendant held receipts for £3 10s paid on the account, and judgment was given for the plaintiff for £3 14s, without costs. Nonsuited. — J. E. Lister (Mr Bates) claimed £107 7s 5d from Thomas Ballin (Mr Dougall) and Arthur Percy Ray (Mr. Graham), alleged due as the balance of a deposit of £160. Counsel for the defence contended that the matter was beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, and the plaintiff was suited.A New Sport. — William Henry Mason (Mr E. T. Harper) claimed £4 10s from Richard Cavill (Mr Bishop), alleged due for damage done to a suit of clothes. The evidence given by the plaintiff was to the effect that he and a friend were in a canoe on the river Avon, when Cavill and an assistant lifted the canoe and turned the occupants into the water. Cavill was wifh a number of others in the river, and they had capsized many canoes. The defence was that a man named Jackson had turned the canoe over, and that Cavill had no iand in tho matter. Jackson gave evidenco, and admitted that he had capsized tbe canoe, and was made a joint defendant. It seems that the capsizing of the canoes a"- that point of the riv-3r was recognised as a huge joke, ajjd one witness gave it the title of "a national sport." Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £3 and costs.