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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 7

When the assault case in which Win. Faulkner and George Blake are concernJed was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Inspector Hendrey, in asking for a remand for 1 next week, said that it Lad been previously understood that the defendant 'Faulkner had been evading; a summons. In justice to Faulkner, "however, he could sa.y that this wag not so, ;as the first intimation that Faulkner received that the case was pending wan from reading a newspaper report of it. Immediately on reading it Faulkner had travelled-.over iOO miles,'so that he might be served with a summons. _ Probably in no part of the Dominion has the cry about , the misfortunes of the unemployed since the outbreak of war been louder than in Christchurch. And yet on Thursday morn■ing .the Christchurch "Press" printed the following news item:—"The thirty men wanted for Gisbotuie did not put in an appearance at the Department of Labour yesterday, and there are, consequently, still openings for any man Iwith dependents who is out of'work." , It is not generally known that in law person who lays an information against another for assault cannot, later, • sue for damages. This point was brought out in the hearing of a case at Temuka, on Tuesday, when '(writes the Temuka correspondent of ' the "Press") a Maori woman laid an information against a_ Maori for as- ■ saultinc her and breaking three of her 'front teeth. The Magistrate fined the • defendant £5. and ordered that half "<£he fine be paid to the woman as comvpeiisatioii for her iniuries. Ho made (the order, he said, in view of the fact •that'by laying the information the complainant had debarred herself from proceeding for damages. A dentist gave evidenoe that it 1 would cost. £10 10s. •to make eood tho iniuries to complainant's mouth.; ; Two employers ... were fined small (amounts in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for failing to keep wages and overtime books. Their names were Ed-ward Osborne and J. C. Gardener, each being fined £1 with costs 7s. Mr. jjj. p. Maston proseouted for the Labour The contribution of the Worser Bay School to the Belgian Children's Fund 'amounted to £14 9s. 3d. The Petone School has sent a further contribution pf Is. 6dl s 'A charge of failing to give an employee the prescribed half-holiday was preferred against Daniel M'Farlane in the Magstrate's Court yesterday morning. Mr. P. W. Jackson, who appeared for defendant, admitted that a breach bf..the award had been committed, but Explained that on the day in question "defendant's servant had come back 1 to the Testaurant and worked without defendant's knowledge, as there had been a rush of business. Later defendant had been acquainted of this, and had paid her overtime. On hearing the facts the Magistrate convicted and discharged defendant.