MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2708, 1 March 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVIL cases. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, judgment was entered for tho plaintiffs by. default in thfr following cases Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Company, Ltd., v. Edward Healy. £3 16s. od., costs £1 10s.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd,, v. Samuel Clement

Colmore-Williams, £2 45., costs 10s.; R. Martin, Ltd!, v. Thomas Lane Churchward, £1 6s. 3d.. costs 55.; Michael Andrews v. .Catherine Bliclt, £3 IDs., costs 135.; Henry Parker v. James Doyle, £G 6s. od., costs Bs.; Jidward Collie, Ltd., v. Edith Pikett, £5 10s. 4d., costs £1 3s. Od.; A. S. I'aterson and Company, Ltd., v. Henry Crown, £7 lis; Tel., costs £1,35. 6d.; Kodak (Australasia), Ltd., .v. Roy Keith, £G 15s. 9d., costs £1 45. ! 6d.; same v. W. Smith, £1 14s'. 4d., costs 10s.; the North Company, Ltd., v. ,T. A. ICingsbeer, £7 Os. 9d., .costs £1 3s. i 6d.; His Majesty the King v: William John Lee, £26 3s. 10d., costs £2 145.; Harry Cane (trading as F. Cohen) v. H. lieogli, £2 los., costs ss. Te .Heuheu Tukino was ordered to pay E. Johnston and Company the sum of £9 14s. 6d., on or beforo March 14, in default to undergo ten days in gaol; Alfred Daniel Walton was ordered to pav Malcolm Graham Mackay the sum of"£3o 6s\, on or before Jlnrch 2, in default to undergo 2b days 1, imprisonment. POLICE BUSINESS. Margaret Doody was sent to gaol for three months on conviction as an idle and disorderly person. . • Samuel Grange was fined 10s. for insobriety. Harry Lander was fined' £3 on a charge of his having' ill-treated a horse. Pauline Alico Russell was accused-of having acted in the conduct of a house of ill-fame, contrary to the City bylaws. Arthur Russell, her _ husband, was accused of having knowingly permitted the premises to be used for the purpose of habitual prostitution. The cases were remanded till March 2, William Henry Price, a lad, was ordered to be birched for stealing Sd. from Francis Joseph Fear, of Willis Street. • \ . Minnie Neilson was fined £2 for sobriety. • . Mary Murphy was fined £10 on si charge of having occupied a brothel iii Moleswortti Street. Tho default was two months' iriiprisonmcut. Three boys of fourteen and fifteen years wcro allotted varying punishments on charges of stealing bicycle fittings, the property of Norman C. Cook.