MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

♦ CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr 11. Y. Widdowson, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Albert Joseph Bed, a second offender, was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. WARNED. John Cochrane Pollock, aged twenty, appeared for sentence on a charge of having been found by night without lawful excuse in Guthrie’s boardinghouse. lie pleaded guilty to an additional charge of having stolen an overcoat. Pollock was convicted on both charges, and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon any time within twelve months. He was warned that a further lapse would mean being sentenced on the id resent charges. O BSCENE L ANG UA G E Arthur Henry Wade, aged fortyfive, was charged with having cast- offensive matter in a public place and with having used obscene language outside tlie police station. Tho accused "said that the police bad thrown him out of the station apd the .language used was used under provocaion. M ade was fined 40s on each charge, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment., the terms to be cumulative. CIVIL BUSINESS. __ UNDEFENDED CASES. • | Judgment was gfiven for the plain- j tiff in tlie following undefended cases: j The Davis Garage v. llulmc Bros., j £•>» 2s; Pierce Bros. v. Reuben j Cook, £1 14s 0(1; Sidney U. Allen v. | J. \\ . \\ iltsliire, i:l 17s 2d; C. Homvcll I v J. Hennessey, £ls I;Ja 4c | . Ashby i Bergh and Co.. Ltd. v. J. Eve, £2 5s ; Hampton Bros. v. \V. J. Kennedy, £3 j 17s; John Cameron v. E. Dick, £l. 7s | (costs ante); Imperial Oilskin Co., EtU. i V IE Coffin and Co., £1 18s (id: Tail liagrie and Co. v. Crane and-Co., £l7 i 2s 2d - J \Y. Archer v. 11. Jardin, £l4 , 4s; Rankin Bros. v. A. J. Watts, £5 [ 2s 7d; W. H. Simms and Sons v. G. Bell. £7 2s; same v. W, Kerr, £1 12s (id; Rink Taxis, Etd. v. G. T. AD Don aid, £l2 8s lid ; S. K. Storey v. N. Tai Sang, £2.1 Ids; W. Thompson v. P Clough, £5 10s ; T. E. Drummond (trading as Soldiers' Depot) v. J. and H. Young, £0 10s; Supply Stores, Etd. v. Mary Ann Hardy, £3 ISs 9d ; Mason Strothers and Co. v. William Brown, £l3 12s 3d; same v. A. E. Burrell, £1 0s fid- P. B. Clark and Co., Etd. ■» Doubleday Bros., £44 Is 3d; Anderson and Hudson v. A. Thompson, £lO 7s lOd ; Dougall and Cpham v. E. T» Ernie, £2 3s Od ; same v. G. H. Ward, £3 3s: F. P- Kesteven v. H. Ellis. £22; Mooney's, Ltd. v. George Sergef, : £2l 12s fid. Ji: DGMEXr SUMMONS I P. M. M’Fadgen was ordered to pay ; W. T. Hart the sum of £l9l Is forth- | with in default- three months’ imprisonment. the warrant to be suspended s„ long'as the debtor pays not less than 10s per week. i SMALL JUDGMENT. IV. Cameron Wall; garage proprietor (Mr Batchelor), claimed from Mrs Mil-

| dred Marshall, taxi owner (Mr Buchanan). the sum of £l9 11s Id for goods sold and supplied in connection with a motor-car. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for Ss and costs.