MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2899, 11 October 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

GIVEN A CHANCE Mr. L. G. Jleid presided, at yesterday's sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. A plea of guilty was entered by Mr. P. W. Jackson on behalf of Thomas Ritchie, alias Veitch, alias Wilson, who appeared to answer a charge of- being an idle and disorderly person, he having consorted with reputed thioves. Counsel asked for leniency, and said that although his client had several convictions against him ho had had nono for tho particular class of offonce with which ho was charged Binco 1909. Quite recently Ritchio had onlisted, and ho was to bo called up next week. Latoly he had been endeavouring to sell bis hawker's turn out, with'tho result that he had come into touch again with his old associates. Previous to this Ritchie had been trying to live fairly decently. . , Inspector Hendrey, in corroborating what Mr. Jackson had said, stated that if tho man woro allowed to go into a military camp to gain his self-respeot it would be better than sending him to gaoll The Magistrate: I think so, too. I will adjourn'tho matter for a week to see if accused goes into camp. Turning to Ritchie, His Worship said that ho would bo released on his own promise if he reported progress to Inspector Hendrey. OTHER OASES. ' Under tlio War Regulations, a, middleaged woman named Elizabeth Scott, alias Mary Mudgway, alias Mary LouiGa Scott, was sent to prison for tlii'OO months for loitering in Wakefield Street for the purpOßes of prostitution. Alfred John Ncilson was fined 10s., in defauH three days' imprisonment, for insobriety. Three young boys, two of whom were brothers, appeared in the' Jnvenilo i Court to answer a charge of having damaged certain property at Island Bay belonging to. Hugh D. MacCarthy. After hearing evidence, the Magistrate ordered each of the boy's parents, to pay the sum of £1 19s. Id. towards the damage done. _ Another young boy received the sum of 7s. from another boy, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, and he was convicted and ordered ,to come up for sentence if called upon. CIVIL BUSINESS. Mr. W. G./Riddell, S.M., dealt with the civil business. Frederick James-Mann, of Otaki, plaintiff, and Gilbert. Young, agent, or Wellington, defendant, had a dispute concerning the management of a farm, and yesterday Mr. Riddell gave his re-

served judgment in the case. Plamtitt | claimed £98 6s. 7d., made up as fol- - lows:—£6o for servioes rendered_ as | manager of the farm at Apiti J £35 for - board and £17 19s. as half the expense ; of moving plaintiff's furmturo from i Trchtham to Apiti. Prior to tho hear- ] ing, defendant had paid the amount j claimed for board', and the balanco of i tho claim was disputed on tho grounds , that the parties were partners m tho , farming business. Ihe Magistrate j found that plaintiff was manager of tho j farm, and therefore ho was entitled to j his wages, less tho sum of fil4 2s. sd. ' which had been paid on account. Judg- -| ment was theroforo given for tlio sum of £45 17s. 7d., with costs amounting , to £6 12s. Tho amount claimed for ] the removal of the furnituro .was disallowed. Mr. J. J. M'Crath appeared for plaintiff and Mr. M. Myers for defendant. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. Judgmonb by default was given in tho following" undefended cases ington City Council v. Annie Ward, £8 os. 5d., costs Bs.; Gordon and Goteh, Ltd., v. A. Wills, £3 10s. 6d., costs 10s.; W.\M. Bannatyne and Co., Ltd., v. Neil Stuart Campbell, £14 18s. Id., costs £1 2s. 6d.; A. D. Cole and Sons v. Tliomas Jones, £8 os. 5d., costs £1 lis. Gd.; Windsor Manufacturing Co., /Ltd., v. R. Spragufi, £10 Is. 2d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; same v. M. Neame, £7 Gs. lid., costs £1 3s. Gd.; same v. B. O'Neill, £10 13s. 9d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; Executors of William Toogood (deceased) v. Amy Hack, £11 12s. ld», \ costs £110s. 6d.; Bannatyne and Hnnter, Ltd., v. Maria Campbell, £48 13s. 10d., costs £3 75.; Garnet Wilson Harty v. Louis Berlyn, £6 14s. 10d., costs £1 3s. (3d.; Mary Ledger v. Matthe^Hickov, £3 12s. 7d., costs 10s.; T. A. Roborts v. W. HwlgOs, £1 19s. GtL, costs 95.; G., Hrirdt and Co. (by its controller tho Public Trustee) .v, Theodore Wysoclu, £19 14s. 3d., costs £1 10s. Gd.'; Hqrb Price v. H. A. Olliver, £1 2s. 3d., costs os.; Oscar Hewett and Co. v. William Newman, £1 los., costs 55.; N.Z. Farmers' Co-Operative DistributiMc Co. v. Tilvai'd. £2 45.» costs 10s.: H? Price and Co. (in liquidation) v. R-oss Bros.. £4 0.5., costs 10s.; J. Godber aiid Co., Ltd., v. Mrs. M. T/ouis-Smith, Bs. 3d., costs 55.; F. Goodwin v. Peter Brown, 14s. 10d., costs 55.: 11. Mitchell v. W. Thompson. £2 6s. fid,, costs' lis. H. Oscar Hewett and Co., Ltd., proceeded against Alice Nooiinn (separate estate), to recover the sum of £2 2s. or possession of. a sewing machine. Judgment was given for plaintiff b.v default, and defendant was ordered to deliver up the as an alternative of payment. Costs in the sum of £1 were allowed.