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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9304, 3 August 1908, Page 3

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: « CHRISTCHURCH. MONDAY, AUGUST 3. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness.— Two first offending inebriates were each fined os and costs, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment. Vagrancy. — Florence Emma Emeny was convicted, on a vagrancy charge, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, but the Magistrate gave her the option of spending it in the Salvation Army Home. Sly Grog-seller. — Alfred Bates was fined £20 and costs, in default one month's imprisonment, for having sold whisky without having been licensed to do so. He was arrested yesterday by Detectives Eade and Gibson, and had been selling " nips" from a bottle that he was carrying with him in the . streets. *A vagrancy charge against him was withdrawn. Judgment by Default.— lk each of the following cases judgment with costs was entered for the plaintiff by default : — Blackburne and Smith v. R. R. Lyne, £7 ss; Graham, Wilson and Smellie v. Andrew Findlay, £2 5s 6d; Mrs Rosetta Petrie (Mr Beattie) v. John Donnelly, £3 16s; W. Strange and Co. (Mr Flesher) v. G. Willa, £4 ' 10s ; Dr C. Nedwill (Mr Cuningham) v. T. Quick, £6 3s; F. T. Pannell and Co. (Mr Rbwe) v. D. Hamber, £1 12s ' 6d; E. W. Pidgeon (Mr Rowe) v. J. , Eastes, £15 Is 9d; A. Schumacher v. . Alfred Bacon, £2 3s 7d; A. W. Grim- ■ mer (Mr Salter) v. G. H. Williams, i £16 os 8d; J. M. Hey wood and Co., 1 Limited, v. R. Fantham, £25 4s. 1 Judgment Summons Cases. — M. Fin- | lay (Mr Rowe) .asked for an order against J. Murphy on an unsatisfied ' judgment for £2" 10s. The debtor said t that his wages amounted to 8s a day . as a casual striker at the Addington s workshops. He was married and paid - 15s a week rent. No order was made. ) —In E. M'Donald (Mr Rowe) v. F. • Bunbury for £2 10s, the Magistrate [ also declined to make an order. — W. J. 1 Berry's application for an order against A. G. Chidgey for £3 7s 2d was also refused, Mr Rowe, on behalf of the ' creditor, eliciting the information that \ the debtor's earnings averaged £2 12s [ a week and that ho paid 12s 6d a week j as rent for a house. He had a wife and three children. Nonsuited. — In R. B. Wilkinson (Mr Rowe) y. W. Foster, for £2 14s 6d, for use of bicycle and lamp, Ihe defendant showed that ho obtained tho Mcvclo on the undemtandintr that he should pay the account by giving music lesions. The aajroomont. he said, had been inado with a Mr Beefiton. from • whom tho plaintiff purchased the busi- - ness. Tho plaintiff was nonsuited. A Secon:d-Han» Cycle.— Barker, Spratt. and Clark, Limited (Mr Rowe) [ .sued L. Barnes for £1 10s as tho cod ■ of the biro of a bicycle. Tho defend ant said that he had. intended to buy : tho bicycle, a second-hand machino, and paid £i deposit, but did not couiL plete the purchase because the- machine , was not 'suitable. He admitted owin<> • 10b, and judgmont was given for that i amount with costs. „, „ i Adjourned. — Robert Hampton (Mr G . - Harpm-) claimed £45 from W. C. Smith . (Mr Russell) for wages in connection r with a. threshing plant. After the plaintiff and another witness had been examined to the effect that the wages had been duo and that no part had L beon paid, the defendant stated that a receipt for £5 12s had been signed by t the plaintiff. Tho plaintiff had stated • that tho signature on the receipt was 1 his cousin's, whose initials were the ; same. The case was adjourned to ; Monday noxt to rtllow the cousin to be examined..