POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11595, 13 January 1916, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S CASES. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) • Three first offenders for drunkenness were each fined ss. Arthur Wilson pleaded guilty to the theft of 10s, the property of Harry Huggard.. It was stated that. Huggard had asked him to havo a drink and had put down half a sovereign, whereupon Wilson picked it up and decamped. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Kate Lynn, alias Brooker, alias Langdon, alias ' Luttle, pleaded guilty to obscene language, said to have been, addressed to a man in Moorhouse Avenue. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in view of her record and the dreadful nature of the obscenity. CIVIL CASES.

(Before Mr H. W.. Bishop, S.M.) in the following civil cases judgment was given for the plaintiffs by default with costs: —Strange and Co. v. A. E. M'Ginn, £5 ss; L. W. Balkind v. Mary Ann Crossen, £5 10s; W. M'Neil and Son v. George Brunt, £l<l2s 6d; Sumner Borough Council v. John White Bradley, £23 0s 6d; Kibblewhite and Vaughau v. I>. A. Styles, £22 10s; J. T. Brown and Son v* E. J. Sheard, £1 5s 3d; P. and D. Duncan v. E. Smith, £1 ss; Aulsebrook aud Co. v. P. J. Willcocks, £9 19s 8d; Massey-Harris Company v. H. E. Hill, £ls 8s sd; Henry Berry and Co. v. R. Warren, £46 10s 8d; Adams, Ltd., v. w. J. Cameron and Co., £4l 0s 3d; National Mortgage and Agency Company v. James Nee, £3O 5s 3d. In the defended case of the Guardian Assurance Company v. J. Teale, judgment was given for the plaintiff for £3 185:..8 d.