MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2678, 26 January 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVIL BUSINESS UNDEFENDED CLAIMS In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Jlr. A\\ G. Riddell, S.M., judgment by default was given for the plaintiffs in the following undefended civil claims:—The New Zealand Dairyman, Ltd., v. Wm. Kidd Elder, £12 los., costs £1 13s. 6(1. • Herb Price v. Fred. Yale, 10s. 6d., costs os.; The Public Trustee v. Jas. John Walker, £13 125., costs £1 10s. Gd.; Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., v. John Hamilton, £12 Bs. 8d„ costs £115s. 6d. j John Duthie and Co, Ltd., v. Chas. Aloxander Caigou, £1 Is., costs 75.; New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., v. How Lee. £3 lis. 9tl. ,costs 135.; S. and. W. Mackay v. Philip Hy. Gosse, £10 165., costs £1 10s. Gd.; Alexander Wilson Hogg v. Ser-geant-Major Lockley, £5, costs £1 Os. (id.; Reginald Cecil Hollow v. R. S. Lewis, £15 4s. 6d., costs £1 10s. Gd.; Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., v. Isabel Bellaney, £4 Is., costs 10s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. In the judgment summons case, Fitzgerald and Pearce v. Thomas Tyree, the defendant was ordered to pay the slim of £3 3s. to the plaintiffs at the jate of 10s. per month, the first payment to be made on March 1 next. The samo defendant was ordered to pay to Jas. Smith, Ltd., the sum of £4 lis. 3d. by monthly instalments of 10s., tne first payment to be made on March 1 next, 1 Julius, de Silva, who did not appear, was ordered to pay £4 ss. to Gordon Sa.vwell Gapper on or before February 8, in default to undergo four days' imprisonment. W. J. Mayor was ordered to pay to ! F. p. Kosteven the Bum of £27 14s. on or before February 8 next, in default to undergo a month's imprisonment. CLAIMS FOR POSSESSION. In the case of the Public Trustee, as administrator of the estate of John Merry, v. Frank Bradley, a claim for £9 18s. and possession of a tenement, judgment was given for plaintiff for the, full amount with costs £1 195., a warrant for possession issued, returnable on February 15. Clara Louise Horner claimed from W. G. H. Baillie the sum of £4 10s., together with possession of tenement. Judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed and costs 12s. 6d., possession of the tenement to be given by February 15 next. POLICE CASES. Police cases were heard before Mr. D ; G. A. Cooper, S.M. In connection with the robbery on R.M.S. Corinthic on December 30 last, Robert Ralph Carr, a native of the United States, appeared on remand to answer a charge of stealing surgical instruments and invalid foodstuffs valued at £60, the property of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Coy., Ltd. Chief Detective Boddam prosecutcd, while Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the accused. Evidence for ■the prosecution had been called on a previous occasion, and yesterday Mr. Jackson called members of the crew to state that Carr had been drinking heavily on the day prior to the robbery. On being formally charged, tho accused pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.

A Maori, named Len ; .Hurupu, xyas remanded until this morning on' a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, without sufficient lawful means of support. Tho prisoner had previously appeared on the samo charge in the dress of a female, and had answered to the -name of A plea of guilty was entered in tho case, and the remand until this morning was granted in order that the gaol surccon might have an opportunity of reporting on the prisoner's mental condition.

Harry Thomas Hunt, J. 9 years of age, was ordered to be returned to the Burnham Industrial School from where he absconded on November 19, 1915. A first-offending inebriate, who did not appear, was ordered to forfeit bail, 10s.