HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1756, 22 May 1913, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

- The first of a series of card parties and dancss under 'the direction of the Petone Tenuis Club was held in St. Augustine's Hall last evening. There were a large number of members and friends, and the evening proved very enjoyable. The' Tonnis Club will bold several similar evenings during the winter months. . Yesterday the monthly sittings of the Petone Magistrate's Court were held before Dr. M'Arthur. Associated with him was Mr. I!. Motlies, J.I J . Letitia Bolton was charged with entering a hotel while prohibited, and was convicted and discharged. Huiaua To Puui was charged with using certain language while travelling from Wellington to Petone in a railway carriago on April 23. Mr. 11. F. Ayson, who appeared for accused, asked for leniency. Accused was drunk at the timo, and did not remember anything that bad occurred. He was a member of the Maori contingent that went to England'at the time' of the Queen's Jubilee. He had been into Wellington to meat a friend from England. Accused lias convicted and fined £2, with Court costs lis., and translation fee as. Thos. M'Nee was fined 10 s. and costs 7s._ for a breach of the Scaffolding Act. W. 11. Nunn was brought up 'Oil two charges of failing to attend camp, and'was fined ,£3 with costs 7s. iii each case, in default seven days in a detention camp. Defendant put "in a. doctor's certificate, but it was l'ound that the camps were held some timo previous to the issue of the certificate. It. House, for failing to render personal service, was fined £2 and costs 75.. in default seven days in a detention camp. House also put in a certificate, but it was noticed that it was issued subsequent to the holding of the parades. M'Ewcn and Carter, Ltd., for allowing horses to stray, were fined and costs 95,, with witness's fee 2s. Judgment was given in the following civil cases by default:—W. S. Cooper v. Arnold Emery, M 10?., costs lis.; J. B. Carey (Webley nnd Co.) v. A. L. Davies, lis. Sd., costs 55.; Sibun and Kent v. T. Stewart, •£•! 4s. IK, costs ss. No order was made in the following cases:—E. Chollorton v. T. E. Parr, a claim for .CI 18s. 5d.; E. J. Turner v. E. W. Woodhouso, a claim for M te. sd.