MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3123, 29 June 1917, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SEVERAL THEFT. CASES. •Mr. L. Q. Iteid, S.M., presided at, the Magistrate's Court yesterday and licard the policc oases. A seventeen-year-old girl was charged: with, the theft ofvfour ladies' ovorcoats and three boys' overcoats. Mr. A. J. Luko appoared for accused,., who was remanded to Monday. For the theft of sereral articles valued at 10s.. the property of somo person or persons unknown, Denis William Quill was sent to gaol for fourteen days. On a further chargo of beinp found drunk ho was fined 10s., in default thxco days' imprisonment. A remand to July 5 war granted in the ease of Percy Joseph Cashman, who was charged with tho theft of motor accessories, tho property of tho Colonial Motor Company. Bail was filed In £20, and 000 surety of £20. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for accused. Eohert Leo Bennett was charged that oil May 23, at Auckland, ho did forgo tho namo oi G. Bennett to a cheque for £16, nnd on the same dato did forgo tho name of G. Andrews to a chequo, for ■£19 lis. Id. On tho application cf.the police ucoused was remanded to appear in Auckland on July 6. Bail was allowed in £50, and ono euroty of £50. A seaman named Terence Kerr, who deserted from an ovorsoa vessel, was £ncd £5, in default seven days' imprisonment, and was ordered to bo returned to*tho vessel.

• A fircinau named Prcdcriolt George Etc--3' phens was charged with a breach of thn ' Military Service Act, in that ho had failed i to mako application for enrolment. According to' Ohiof-Detectivo -Eoddem accuEod , t was a widower, his two children being in j I/ondon. He arrived in New Zenland . RUout six weeks ago, and wa-3 probably ienoraut o£ tho requirements of tho Act. Ho had since repistored. Ho was con- ' victod, and ordered to «omo up for sen- ' t«nce when called upon. i I'or insobriety two first offenders vrero • convicted aa>! discharged. \ CIVIL OASBiS. / i Mr. A\ r . 0. ItiddcU, S.M., heard tho civil , cases in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. , Judgment by. default was givon for, plaintiff in the following undefended civil' cases:—Veitcll and Allan v. A. M'Nabb, ' 13s. 9d., costs 11s.; Commercial Agcnoy, IAA., and W. TViggins, Ltd., v. J. Wood- ' houEO, trading as J. h. Lord, £2 lie. 6d. • costs; Public Trustee as administrators of tho e6l*to of James Watson v. Harold i Prentice, £12 Bs., costß £1 10s. 6d.; eamo v. AiißUsto Louis Sufflot, £8 65., oosts £J , 3s. 6d.; same v. TVilliom Knivoton, £4 76., costs 165.: samo as administrator of tho will of Mary Ann Smith v. Morris Bear--1 don. £2 Bs., costs 10s.; Walrarapa Farmere' 00.-oji. Association, Ltd., v. D. H. Ectter, £7 3s. 6d., oosts £1 ie. 6i; Hutt County Connril v. John J. M'Grath. £J 14s. 6d., costs 65.; sttmo T. Fred. W. Benn and Mrs. V. W. Bcnn, oosts only 35.; Ka-rold Xf. Brown and Co. v: James Steel, £40, costs £2 195.; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. Ernest 0. Dockcrj, £3 4s. 2d., costs £1 2s. 6d.