MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 839, 10 June 1910, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

' (Before Mr. W. G. Kiddell, S.M.) THEFT OF MONEY ALLEGED. " John Henry Wood, a middle-aged man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, on February 2, committed theft of £2 10s. in money,I the property of Walter Alexander Morrison. On the application of Chief Detective Broberg, a remand to June 17 was granted, the Chief Detective stating tllat other charges involving a total of about £20 were being investigated. Bail was allowed in the sum of i£so and one surety of 4150. Mr. DUnn appeared for accused. DESERTER FROM THE PIONEER. Wm. , Nicliolsoji Stewart Ross, who pleaded' guilty to having deserted from H.M.S. Pioneer at Wellington, on' June 2, was remanded to Wellington Prison with orders that lie should be placed on board the Pioneer on her arrival at Wellington. JUVENILE BIRCHED. A juvenile of under 12 years of'ago pleaded guilty to the theft of a purse anil three sovereigns, the property of Mary Young, and was convioted and ordered to receive five strokes of the birch. INSOBRIETY.-' One first offender for drunkenness, wlio failed to appear, was fined 10s., \p. default 24 hours'; imprisonment. ' CIVIL BUSINESS. (Before Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M.) UNDEFENDED CASES. Judgment was entered for plaintiff by default of defendant, in the, following civil cases:—Louis 11. Hoare v. Jim Hop]

Leo. .CI Bs. Sd., costs 55.; J. B. Marshall v. Harry Barlow ami Jane Barlow, £i 19s. Gil., costs £\ 6s. 6d.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. 13. Zaloiim, .£3' 3s. d<l., costs 10s.; Jones and Ashdown, Ltd., v - Hobert Darby, .£G 10s., costs .!il 3s. G(l.; Drapery ami General Importing Lo., Ltd., v. Louis Petersen, .£l2 1/s. Ed., costs .£! las. od.; same v. Frederick lulmorc, .Ci Os. Cd., costs 10s.; Gear Jicar Co. v. Alfred Bacon, £1 is., casts 10s.; Kec Choii" and Co. v. Albert B. James, 11s., casts 55.; London "Times" v. J. i\ • llackiiv. .fill 18s. 0(1., costs .£1 11s. 6(1. i A. Adams v. Mrs. S. M. Burnett .£J) 17s. 2d., costs .£2 Ms.; To Ato Honra Drapery Co., Ltd., v. Wm. M. Kc lv, .£5 7s. lid., costs £1 ss. lid.; E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., v. O'Connor and Fuller. .£3" 2s. 3d., costs £2 Us.; Clifton Heirrj Dickerson v. Williams and Moorcs, £bl 7s. lid., costs JC3 17s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. In the judgment summons case W. Wiggins, Ltd., v. Walter Taylor, a debt of .£3 9s. 6d., debtor was ordered to pay on or before Juno 23, in default three days' imprisonment. No orders were- wade in the following eases-.-Scoullar and Co., Ltd., v. Arthur Barnard Chappell, a debt of £1 Bs., and John Farrelly, sen., v. Reuben Parker, a debt of £3 7s. TAILOR NON-SUITED. Jones and Ashdown, tailors (Mr. Ward) claimed £1 ss. from Sidney Leo, being balance alleged to Iμ owing ou a suit of clothes. Plaintiff urged that certain payments had been made by defendant, but that the amount' claimed was still owing. Defendant stated that he had paid the whole amount. No question had been raised until an alteration took place in the tailoring firm. His Worship non-suited plaintiff. A BOX-BOARD PRINTER. Norman Gibbs, liquidator of tho Palmer Engineering Co. claimed .EGO 17s. from Ellis and Burnand, Ltd., timber merchants, balanco alleged to be duo on an automatic box-board printing machine, two sets-of cog-wheels and sundries sold and delivered to defendants. Defendants counter-claimed for .£6O 17s. damages, and urged that the machine which they had ordered was to be exactly the snme as a machine which they had previously purchased from the Palmer Engineering Co. Tho machine delivered, according to defendants, differed materially from the one which defendants had previously purchased from -the firm, in tnat the brands used on the one machine would not fit the other one, owing to a difference in the size of the rollers upon which the brand? should fit, and that the spare parts were not applicable to either machino at will. After a hearing which lasted nearly two hours his Worship reserved decision until June 21. Mr. Dalziel appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Bell for defendants. . A DEAL IN PIES. . • Ttosina Innes, refreshment-room keeper (Mr. Toogood) claimed £1$ from Whitmoro Walter Green, pastry cook (Mr. D. M. Findlay) damages for alleged breach of an agreement entered into between the parties. Evidence was called for tho purpose of showing that plaintiff had purchased her business from defendant,' and that an agreement was entered into that deiendant was to teach plaintiff how to make pies. Defendant also agreed to supply plaintiff with fruit and meat-pies for a year from March 8 last, the pics to be up to a special sample. Plaintiff urged that defendant failed to teach her to mako pies and that he had not supplied pies up to the sample, and also that he had failed to supply certain pies ordered. After a partial hearing tho case was adjourned.

A PENCE AT TAITA. Judgment was given at the Hutt Court on Monday by Mr. W. E. Hnselden, S.M., in tho case Annie Dcckston v. Win. Brannigan, a claim for .£3 10s. Gd. half cost of the erection of a dividing fence on ' land in which the parties are interested at tho Taita. ' Tho caso was heard in Wellington, but judgment was reserved to enable the Court to inspect tho fence. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff for the amount claimed and costs ,£3 7s. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for plaintiff-and Mr. J. J. M'Grath for defendant.