COURT RETURNS

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14267, 19 January 1920, Page 3

COURT RETURNS

i MAGISTRATE AND SUPREME. i j DKCKMEHH QUAHTKH AT HAMILTON Tin.! return of business done in the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton during Hie quarter ended December 31st, 19 J 9, showed that the Stipendiary Magistrate presided over 17 sittings and Justices of the Peace 20, the total sittings being S 3. The number of civil eases heard by the Stipendiary Magistrate was 121, and by the Justices nil. The aggregate amount sued for was £4794 9s 3d and the aggregate recovered £3340 2s_ fld. The amount of civil fees was £217 3s Cd, and the amount of licensing fees £3 Ts. The amount to be paid to the Hamilton Borough Council for lines in by-law eases for the quarter was £3O J (is. The criminal offence cards for the quarter showed number of arrests at 37 males and four females, and the number of summons cards at 132 males and 13 females, making a total of IG9 males and 13 females. The amount of criminal fees was £37 15s and the amount of lines £llO 10s.

During the quarter 12 old age pensions were granted, four refused, and r>2 renewed. Supreme Court. The return of cases, criminal and civil, and of all business transacted in the various jurisdictions of the Supreme Court during the quarter ending December 31st showed (the figures for the corresponding period of 1918 being given in parenthesis): — Criminal: Sitting days, 7; indictments, 12; persons convicted, 4; acquitted, 2: persons committed for sentence under Justices Peace Act, 3; subpoenas, 2 (4) ; office copies, depositions, etc., 315 (240). Civil: Sitting days, 5; ordinary wills, 22 (18); writs, titles of exchange. 1 ( 1 ) ; extraordinary remedies, 2: originating summons, 1; trisls by common jury,. 2; judgments entered, 4 (6) ; discontinuance, 4; changing'orders nisi and absolute, 1 (4) : executions issued, 2 (2); subpoenas, 12: searches, 3 (2). Chambers: Sitting days, 31 (17); motions, 87 (68); summons, 10 (3); petitions, 1 (1); orders, 83 (G 7). Divorce and Matrimonial Causes: Sitting days, 2; petitions filed, 7 (o); answers filed, 3; motions in chambers, 6; orders, 5: trials by common jury. 1; trials by judge, 4; decree nisi, 4 ; decree absolute, i: petitions dismissed, 1; searches, 5 (1). Probate and Administrations: Probates, 45 (37) : administrations. 14 (10); exemplifications, 1 (2); searches, 8 (3). Registration: Chattels securities, 201 (178) ; memoranda of satisfaction, 31 (12) ; powers of attorney, 1; newspapers, 2; printing presses, 3: searches, 417 (226).

Bankruptcy: Sitting days, 2; debtors' petitions, 2 (3); creditors' petitions, 2 (1): adjudications, 1 (4); motions in chambers, 1 (2); orders. 1 (2). Property Law Act: Applications to conduct sales, 1 (2). Fees: Bankruptcy, £4l lis Cd (£2B 6s); other than bankruptcy, £430 16s (£275 5s 6d); total, £4Bl 7s Cd (£303 lis 6d). The total amount for which judgment was recorded was £933 lis Id (£832 15s 3d). It has to be explained that the Supreme Court sittings were adjourned last year from December to January owing to the influenza outbreak.