LOWER HUTT COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 8

LOWER HUTT COURT

Before Mr, I>. G. A. Cooner, S.M., who presided: over 1-ho monthly sitting el tlu" Lower Hutt MagistrateVCkmrt yesterday, a'j'qtetb named Wiutou Morris was ordered to pay Court costs 7s. for faffing to register in accordance with thsi'Defence 4et. I'lfigiualrl Cieorga House pleaded guilty "to a charge of '.Mgleoiwg to' register the birth of his child within the' tinra prescribed by the Act. After defendant had tendered' an cNplauatioii, tho Magistrate ordered Mouse to pay, '" court costs P. S. Goidmgliam was feed 10s., with I cists (21s. (id,) for exceeding the motor speed iitr.it 0.11 January 24. ~ For Militia to comply wit.lv a maiiiteuar.ce order (being £1 16s. in arrears), Walter K. Jdaines was ordered tfl be imprisoned for. fourteen days, tha to bo suspended in the, event of defendant .paying ss. per week off the ■' amount. In th(> civil case., Thomas Burt v. Frederick Edwards., 9 claim for £1117s. 2d., judgment was given for' plaintiff, with costs £2 lis. fid. B. Bay was ordered to paj Thmv We.stbu.ry_ the sum of $1 lis. 6&. by Jrtl.y 15, in default three days'. imprisonment, CHARGE OF ASSAULT. was charged With assaulting William Titom, The evidence showed that-tho two. flien had a dispute over certain grazing rights, and fr<:m words caine to blows. There Was a Straggle-, awl Tlrom i'fl.ceivcij ft blsiek iui'l Freeman's clothing got dsnio'god. ■ Mr. 11. F'. Ayson, wte appeared for the tnifermni'i.fc Thorn, stated that both parties had certain rights, -tsxtb that his elie.iit had no provocation whatever. Ivy Myrtle Fitzmauriec gave evidffl.ee to the elf net that Freeman had s'uucti the first Wow. Freeman said that Xbaiti rojute n blow at him and itiis-sod, ami Ahe compliment was returned, Be had done all hft could t© avsiid a cjuiii't'ei. ' • ■ Tho Magistrate decided 011 the <-vidence Hint i'roemai} had ci.-nnmricil an assauli, shml a iitic of £1 was. imposed.