MAGISTRATES COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 11

MAGISTRATES COURT.

IMPUDENT ACT AT THE CIRCUS, 13Y OF THK HANDS. Pokiira llarama, ivbo \s~.is rosnanded on Wednesday to the Supreme CaSri for sentence on two indictable tlwft charges, itppenred to answer another charge of stealing a kdy's hflnd-bag poiitaiiiinm a watch and papers valued at £1 10s., the ])roperty of Mabel Bud- i iiiKlield. Mr. W. Q.ttiddeK, S.M., was on tiio Bench. Accused entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to oiio month's imprisonment.; Ghief-Detcctivo Jiioijerg txplained that the theft had been committed during a performance :tt Wirthy Ciix-us. Tlio liiiinj-hag was suspeiided from a seat in front of the onnef, and acI'used, who was a circus liaiulj had

! crawler} under the seats tiil immediute-' ly under tiio place where tho purse wits. Ho had then snatched it, and decamped, and had afterwards disposed of iho watch to another cireus ha.ud tor ss. CASE H-ESIANDKD. A (lefendnnt appeared to unswcr a charge of having been guilty of i»d<w?iit conduct- at Newtown i'arb on Wednesday. Ho was represented by Mr. T. M. Wilford and pleaded not guilty. J:h\ Wilford explained tinit the three women who- were ssapposed to have laid the nifoimatioii had net appeared. The case wns adjonfned titl next Wednesday, bail being allowed in the SMti of £25 en aecnaed's o«ni recognisance. MISCELLANEOUS CASES. Richard liad three charges preferred against him. (1) Drunkenness, ■ {%) bad tangtiage, &) obstriietiog Constable Petty i» the exccution. of hk duty. Accused did Hot appear to remember tho occurrence.' On the , first charge ho waa convicted ami discharged, on the second tiucd 40s. with witnesses' -espouses 12g,, and on the third was fined 20s. Stella Taylor, alias Ma-yne, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and ta awother' charge of. beiaia an -i-dk l and disorderly person. On the first chante she *as convicted and disAarged. On the. second she was scfttenoed to throe months' Imprisonment. I'or insjjbrfety Albert Jackson was fined -205,, ajnd Alphouso ficeidant and Arthur Barman 10s. Three first- offenders were dealt with. On* was ordered to pay 17s. fid. medical expenses and two others were convicted a.nd d.is* charged. INDUSTRIAL. WORKER'S TRAVEtLING TIME; The '.Inspector of Awards (Richard Alfred Boiknd) proceeded against Messrs. Norling and Q.niu, of Khand-al-kh, buildei-Sj -for failing to eosnply with th-e Wellington Carpenters' and Joiners' Award, in that, during tho months of November.and Becomber, 1913* they employed one — Bail, a corpoi-itaf, at suburban work and failed to pay him for tie time occupied in travelling to and from .such work as provided for in the. award. Tho inspector explained that the workman in cjucstion had faavolkd two miles 72 chains to his w-o-rk and ttef-oad-ants did not pay him'for tide time thus oDeupiod. B-fJt'eJidants -pleaded auilty. Xt was statssd, how-evei-, that tiey did not think that they is-e-fo coM-iivting a breach of the ' asviirij as the man had been actuary engaged. A iino cif 10s, was imposed. CIVJL LIST. . UNDEFENDED DEBT CASES, Judgment was given for plaintiff by jfc'iault in tliD foHowiuji undefended civil cases :-»-Coirtmereial Agency, I,la, (assignees), aiid Bfiscoe and Co., Ltd. v. Henry Stairmand, £43'175. lid., coses m 10a.; Harty H, Hayr v. E. Atinore, me 3s. 10d.» costs £3 95.; O. \ Shaiier v. ,M. Wat-sou, 9s. 6d;, casts £2 4-s. • Commercial Agency, Ltd. (assignees) and Bins, Harris ani Co., Ltd., v. J. C. M'Kay, £23 13s. Oncosts ,-S3. -Is,; Van Staveren Ih-os. r.' 1. Armstyong, £13 ICs. I0d ; . costs iil 10s. 6d.-, J.ftk« Q.Q-A- (sen.) v. £cssetl» Scoßlund, £5, costs il 3s. <5d.; Charles AVilliiiH! Brodie v. L, 11. Lewis, £11, costs £1 I.os, (M.; Tarnwr Bros. r. P'. K. Horroeks,. £9, costs 18s.; David M'Rae v. J. Boufcon, £1 Hs..-costs' 55.: Ho'.yarcl Spadiniai* y. Hiehard-Wed-d-e-rspoon, £2 12s, 6d,, costs 11s.; Kirk* caldic- and Stains, Ltd; v.- A. Ekstone, £-0; -costs £1 Bs, Gil.; J. -Itevt-riage V. Arthur H. Piper, £9::8 a:.," cosia. ii'Lss,': <3cL ; Thompson Brosll- 'it'B.' v. .'J '. : -\V. : Lewis, £1} 15a. Bd., costs 105;... Dr.' Cameron v, Samuel Bbod, £3 35.. costs 32a.: -W. and-'G.' Tnrtibull and Cβ.' v;-' Sl'Greßor, £18 19s. lid., costs £1 10s. Gel.; Wellington Gn.s Company, Ltd: .v. .C. I?, -.Carpenter, £1 :4s, Cxi,,' costs ss. ' JUPGSIENT SUMMONSES. J. -Oswald O. Sullivan was ordered to pay Ernest Emil HoJutrickscn tho s«in of-£M T& o» .or before Mii-rc-Ji It). J. Millienn wsis ordered to pay 3. O'Brien and- Cα.-the sum o-f- £7. 7s, s'd. α-ii or before- March 19. H. Rej-nolds was : ordered to ptiy C, 11. Seulsbsn £2 18s. i on or before March 19.