MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT ON BOY. Mr. AY. G. Riddel! presided ovor a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. ' Thomas Iverson was charged with assaulting a small boy jiqmed Roy M'Rao by kicking him in the back. His Worship characterised the assault as a cowardly act, and scntouced accused to fourteen days' imprisonment. Tho evidence was to the effect that the boy had been standing at tho corner of Taranaki and AHvian Streets looking in a window, when accused had kicked him on tho hack, apparently wiiTiout the slightest provocation. A man named Thomas O'Neil had noticed tho occurrence, and informed the police.

BEBE & A BLUE DRAGOON. TEMPTATION & FALL. "I met aa old mate of mine, him and mo used to be together in the Blue Dragoons. 'I was three-parts full at. the time, and the Missus of the hotel says to me: ' 'Ere, give me a 'and, with puttin' the beer in the cellar.' I says, 'Give us a drink first. 1 Site says, 'No, wait till B'terwards.' The.ll I sees the baer there.' The sight was too much for mo, and I took eight bottles.". Such was the confession of Thomas Ma-. lonoy, charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning with stealing eight bottles of beer, the property of Messrs. Staples and Co. Hardly bad Sialonev got into the box before tho above confession came. His sentence came nearly as rapidly. "Defendant will bo fined 20s.< in default seven da,ys ! imprisonment,-' said His Worship, and the one-time Blue Bragoon rnija ambled out- of the dock, convinced,'no doubt, that beer was cheaper when it was lawfully bought. INSOBRIETY.' Two first offenders appeared oft charges of insobriety. One was cpnvieted and discharged, and the other fined Ss. - ■ OiVIL GASES. THE tJNDEEENJDED DEBTORS. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the' following undefended Oases:—W. fi. Suckling v, Sidney Legg, £1 15s„ costs Ss.; Otto Englufidh V. B. E. Jjaurenee, £5, costs £1 Ss. M<; C. E. Houlston v. Thomas Hodges, £3, costs lis.; Public Trustee v. W. H. H. Young, £18 IBs,, eosts £1 lQs. 6d.; M. H. Teatastu v. W. T, Pitama, £187 155., ods'ts £8 175.; 0. E. Koulstori v. Alett Lister, £1, costs 55.; Lq Grovo and Laurence Co., Ltd,, v. T. W. Snow, £23 12s. 6d., costs £2 145.; Te Are Mea* Co. v. R. H. Coker, £2 4s. 9d., costs 55.; R. Brown and N. Brown v. S. J. Binning, £S Is., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Richard Hulse and Stephen Stoekbridgo v. 1. H, Cokor, £2 ss. H., costs 10s, 1 Jas. Smith, Ltd., v. Archibald M'lntyre, £2 10s., costs 10s.; Daniel Coromio v. F. R. Kitching, 16s. 6d., costs 55.; Jas. Smith, Ltd.," v. CarolineWallace, £2 18s, 6d., costs 10s,;; Now Zealand Farmers' Co-operative-Distrib-uting Co., Ltd., v'. Jaitids Mabey, .14-s,, casts 55.; same v, E. W. James, £3 17s. 10d., costs 13s. ;.W. H. Suckling v. Harry Gordon, £10 10s., costs £1 13s. . 6d.; same r. Bessie Awdry, 2s. 6d., ■ costs Ss,; W. E. Tomlin v, Ronald ' Owens, £4 7s. 7-d.. casts 10s.'; A. J. Moot v. John Fearn, £6 12s„ costs £1 ■ 3s. 6d.; A. D. Kennedy and Co., Ltd., v. Edwin Crow, £49 14s. 5d.; casts £3 7s. 9d.; Dresden Manufacturing.Cd.j Ltd., y. George Fatquhar, £11 16s. Sd., costs £1 155.. -6d.; Geo. Doughty and Co. v. C4eorge Luddington, King, and C 0.,..£22 os. 1d..-,- costs £2.145.; Kodak. (Australasia) Ltd., v James Walsh, £48 95., costs £3 75.; Wright, Stevenson," and Co. v. J. H. R. Taylor and G. Henderson, £20 Is., costs £2 19s. In the judgment summons case of John Augus- ■ tus Pyle v William Wilson, defendant was ordered to pay £8 before December 2, in default soVen days' imprisonment.

PLDMBING CONTRACT. In a defended case, Phillip O'Kleefo sued Harry Mason for £2 55., itt connection, with a plumbing' contract. After hearing evidence, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., nonsuited the plaintiff with £1 Is. cpsts.