LAW REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 9

LAW REPORTS

MAGISTRATE'S COURT 'A short sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held 011 Saturday morning, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. Dorothy Souter and Lesley Reid, on remand on a charge of theft of £141 55., were again remanded till Wednesday next, bail being allowed in each ease in the sum of £150. Helona Hatfield, Kate Sweeney, and Patrick O'Neill were each fined 205., in default three 'days' imprisonment, for insobriety. Alexander Gilmer was fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment for a similar offence; and Louis Durholt, for insobriety, was fined iOs.. in default seven days' imprisonment, and for having used obscene language, was fined £3, in default one month's imprisonment. Two first offenders were convicted and discharged. Susan M'Laughlin,an old' aqman, ivas charged that she was an incorrigible rogue,, in that she accosted people for alms, in Courtenay Place. Shfc had previous convictions, and she wrs again convicted, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. A PALMERSTON; NORTH CASE.

His Honour Mr..Justice Hoslring gave judgment in Palmerston North'on- i'rida.v last on the motion heard before him in Wellington recently in the case of Nicholas - Martin v, Frederick-Spen-cer Easton. At last sittings of the. Supreme Court in Palmerston the jury awarded Martin £100 general damages and special £18 Is. 4d. for malicious prosecution. At the close of plaintiff's, case Mr. H. R. Cooper moved for a nonsuit; on 'the ground that there was no evidence, or not sufficient evidence, to support the allegation of a want cf reasonable and probable i cause and 110 evidence of malice. This was refused, leave being reserved to defendant to. move. The motion came up for argument in Wellington, and was opposed wii behalf of plaintiff by -Mr. H. Gifford Mooie. His Honour dismissed the actioand allowed the judgment to -«tand. PUBLIC TRUST BUSINESS

PROBATE. OP WILLS, ETC. Oil the application of the Solicitor to the Public, Trust Office, the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Wellington ha 3 granted probate of the wills of the following deceased persons to- the Public Trustee, the executor named in the Wills William James Burton, late of Greenmeadows, well-sinker; Thomas Chamberlain, Longburn, farmer; John William. Copithorne,. ..Wellington, music-seller; Adam Forrest,. Opofiki, farmer; Christopher Hennessy, Opotiki, .settler; Robert Steel Jamieson, Collingwood, farmer; Mark Jarvis, Greenmeadows, labourer; Alexander Macdonald, Auckland, farmor; Anthony 'Marley, Wellington, caretaker; Susan -Quick, -.lauranga, spinster; Ellen Elizabeth-Ranwell, . Wellington, widow; Denis.- Ryan, Porangahau, sheep-farnjer; William Schoemnaker, Hokitika, retired hotelkeeper; '.Cabel.. Smith, _ Culverden, county.-clerkj James 1 Archibald' Grant Reid Wallace, Lyttelton, master mariner; John Watterson, fiokitika, tailor. Probate of the wills of "the' following deceased persons has been granted to the Public Trustee, the appointee -of ' the executors named in the wills:—George Albert Bettley, late of Hamilton, butcher; Daniel Brown, Kinohaku, farmer; Jame3 George Cox, Featherston, settler;. Thomas Eastwood, Wanganui, retired draper; Thomas Everitt, Tuatapere, contractor; Charles Anthony Frith,... Wellington, plumber; James Gilberfcson, Wellington, sailmaker; William, - Qinder#,.:-Ngawak*, farmer; Thomas Pine' Gloyn, Drury, farmer; James Green, Waiamakarau, labourer; Maud -Lillian Grigg, Wellington, widow; - William Hearn, , Keri Keri, settler;' George Lemon, Greymouth, settler ; 'Sarah Elizabeth' Matthews, Christchurch, widow;; Hector' M'Neilage, Inyeroarpenter'j Edward Henry. Siirloy, Chvistchurch, retired farmer. .' Orders to administer the estates of . the following deceased persons have • been granted' to the Public ' TrusteeAlfred-. ;Mortran Biddle,. late of Mayfield, black--smith; Daniel Bradley, Nightcaps, farmer; Henry Browne, Edendale, farmer; Francis Rigall Foster, Auckland, retired farms*j Albon George Gaudin, Mount. Roskill, ■: Auckland,- liftman;. Robert Houston, , Hastings, .electrical engineer; Joshua Jones, Marton, clerk in Holy - order?;, David Mlntyre, Lyttelton, ship's officer;. Cornelius .Murray, • Auckland,: labourer; Frank'' Austin Neville, Nokomai, miner; Patrick O'Connor, Ashhurst, ' platelayer;' John Page; Akitio, groom; John Phillips, Wanganui, retired mariner; Clifford: Monro Poupard, Christchurch,. ageht; Reginald Constantino Rikys, Tikinui, farm manager; Samuel' •Taylor', Tafadale, labourer'; Louis Thompson, Cape. Saunders, lighthouse-keeper; Bartholomew Wnrd, Tauranga, settler; Herbert Webb, Rotorua, plumber; Daniel Charles Woolsey, Port Chalmers, railway employee. " Orders as under were made in connection with the following estates:—Daniel Sheedy,''order to''sell;_ M'Masters Children Trust, order settling, .trusts; James Lomax, order rescinding-order; Margaret M'Alpine, order appointing Public Trustee executor and trustee; Gertrude Baker, order to lease; Huston Curlett, order to rescind order; Joseph Billing, order to distribute estate; Thomas l/ouis Webb, vesting order; Joe Kak; order to bar claims; Charies -Edward Audrey Dansey, order to advertise. . . DIVORCK CASES,(By. Telegraph.—Press Association J

(By. Telegraph.—Press Association J .Auckland, February 27. At the Supreme Court a decree nisi was granted m the divorce suit Charles Albert' Richmond. against Minnie Adelaide Richmond. Petitioner, when petty officer of-, a ship, on returning from a voyage, found respondent, in the custody of the police at' Wellington. He offered to : take-her back, but she never •returned .to .him., . Later, he learned she was serving six months' imprisonment. in Wellington. When she ivas released, ' he met her, and she' stayed with him.for .a while, but eventually left him for good.