MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CIVIL SIDE. 1 THE FERRY BOAT CASE. 1 (Before Dr. M'Arthur, S.JI.) | The caso in which P. V. Blandford [■ claims .£2B 18s. as special damages and > £VoQ as damages to health and shuck s from tho Wellington Harbour Ferries, IS Ltd., was continued to-day. Tho basis '! of the claim was (hat Blandford allowed S that ho fell overboard from tho ferry ij boat Admiral owing to a servant of tho j defendant's having left a railing open. f. Sir. Meredith was for plaintiff, and ALr. a Hislop for tho defendant. V In giving evidence for tho claimant, ■ Mrs.- Hunter stated that after tho ferry \ boat had left fiona Bay for Day's Bay, c a deckhand essayed to replaco the railing, '■ and was told by tho captain "not to i| trouble," as they would bo at Day's Bay f in a few minutes. a Mr. Hislop observed that ho would § bring evidence to show that tho ordinary 'i procedure on the ferry had been followed. KS Ho termed the case as "one of extortion." Captain William Moid, master of the Admiral, stated that ho had not noticed tho railing open. When lie spoke to tho deck-hand about tho railing they wore only about two minutes' travellin" from Day's Bay Wharf. Tho light on tho funnel was not switched on' because that would havo made it hard for tho man at the wheel to seq ahead. It was, however, true that, since the accident, ho had been warned not to have tho gangway railings' opened until tho vessel was alongside. ;Ho believed that a deck-hand was standing-by the opening at tho time of tho accident. William Goddard stated that lie had closed tho railings after leaving Eojia Bay. Immediately after he opened it, lie heard tho splash of a man falling overboard. Decision was'reserved.'till August 21. POLICE CASES. A BROTHER'S MONET. (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) Charles Luxon appeared on remand at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of stealing dC2 Os. 3d. from Peter Collins Temby at Ashburton, in July. Tho prosecution stated that Luxon had been handed the money, and he had undertaken to send it to his brother. He, however, had come north, and the money had not been accounted for. Mr. Potherick, who appeared for Luxon, pleaded guilty in a technical sense. Ho said that Luxon had come to Wellington and had not got a certain position which ho had -expected,' and so ho used the money. He had since made restitution. Luxon was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. BAD LANGUAGE. Thomas D. Thompson and William Bond were charge;! with drunkenness and using obscene language. The charge related to a scene on s.s. Cobar. Mr. Jackson appeared for the defendants, and pleaded guilty. Each defendant was fined £o. , Georgo Rhodes was convicted of drunkenness and discharged, and was fined £4, in default 21 days' imprisonment,, on a charge of using improper language. TWO MONTHS. Joseph Samuel Perkins was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for disobedience of a maintenance order in respect of his wife and children. BREAKING BY-LAWS. Thomas Speedy was fined 10s., and 7s. costs, for riding a horse along tho footpath at tho Parade, Island Bay. Thomas Henry Cole was fined 10s., and costs 75., for. leaving a vehicle -Unattended for more than five minutes. Thomas Glover, the driver of a cait, who did not keep to the left side of Jcrvois Quay while en Touto in the courseof his busine-ss, was fined 10s. Thomas •Jl'Grath, Michael Kearney, Reginald Welsby, Sarah' Hayden, Arthur Edmonds, and Susan Lamberg wcro ordered to pay small penalties for permitting slock to wajider on public thoroughfares. John Moloney was convicted of having an unregistered dog. and was ordered to pay court costs. W. Reid was similarly dealt with. OTHER, CASES. William Shock was fined .£3 for -working a horso which had a sore breast. An information laid against William Hcenan, that ho loitered in Willis Street after being directed to inovo on, was dismissed. Rebecca Llewellyn was fined 10s. for failing to keep a wages and time book, and 10s. for failing to keep a holiday book: William Handlcy was charged with trespassing on tho property of Arnold Forsaith, at Alicetown. Tho'plaintiff said Hint the defendant had occupied a hoiifo, without authority, and had refused to leave. Defendant asserted in evidence that tho house had been rented to him. Ho was liuwl £1.