MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3163, 15 August 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

I'OIjICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr. H. E te'Carihw 8.M., presided at tbß R™*" Odurt yesterday and heard the pollen nod civil oases. An elderly man numed Edward Valen"ln nostcrby, couvioted of HRsaultintr n young niau named William Henry Whitely. was lined 40e., in default 14 d'ayß' imprisonment. i fleorifo Browse, for committing a grossly indecent act in Vivian Street, \ms sen* toticetl to three monlhs' imprisonment, and on a further charge of helng found drunK wan convicted and discharged. Pop insobriety Timothy Donovan waß sentenced to a. month's imprisonment and ordered to pay medical expenses, ITs. 6d., in default seven days' imprisonment. Henry Greenfield was sent to aaol for fourteen days. Two iivst. offenders were each fined ?,(1p„ In default, forty-eight hours' imprisonment. On flip application of Mr. V. W. Jackson a. further remand for ft week was granted in the case of William Eruesl Fordham, a, Foldier, charged with 'V' i'-Jng Sergeant Cruickshank whilc.in tfie execution of his duty. This is another case arising out of .Saturday nisrht's riot. CIVIL CASES. j •ludgnieut was Riven for plaintifi by default in the following civil casest-Grapeß and flileyv. 1). B. i'airclolh, £M 4s. 4d., costs £2 145.; HeHer-Kobor Drapery 00. v. I'atriok O'Kallornn, 195., costs 63.: British linjlcrial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd. v. H. Ilolyoake, £21 Is. Bd.. costs £2 145.; Ha.iah Tea, Compnny v, 11. M'Kay, lis., costs 65.; Wellington Publishing Co., Ltd., v, Qa.met B. Holmes, £26 Vs. 6d„ costs £2 1.46.: Bristol Piano Company v. Iteginald William King, £20 13s. 9d., costs £2 165.; To Aro Furnishing Coopany v. ,T. P. Wilson, 11b., costs 55.; Martha Frances Wylie v. lire. N. Nightingale, ill Is. 3d., e.oßtfl £1 IDs. 6d. In the ease of the Wellington Colleen Governors v. Mary Jane Maguiro, judgment was given for possession of a, tenement and lis. costs.