MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 275, 9 August 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

;; CIVIL CASES. The iiolice and tho civil business at the Magistrate's Court yesterday wero dealt with by Mr.. W. G. Biddell, S.ll. In tho following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default..— William H. Boyd v. V. Dixon, costs 125.; British and Continental Piano Co. • v. Ellen Johnson, <£47 -45.,. and costs £3 lis. Gd.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and J. .T. Langridgo and Co., Ltd., v. J. H. Small, ,£4B 19s. 3d., and £3 14s. Gd.; same v. ]?. Orr, i£B 16s. Gd., and £1.45. 6d.; same v. Philip Charles, £6 Ills, 2d., and £1 10s. 6d.; W. Black and Co., Ltd., v. B. Missen, Gs„ and JBI Ss. 6d.; Wellington Gas Co., Ltd., v. Alfred Hunt, .£l7 Bs. 3d., and £i 10s. 6d.; samo v. A. M. Webster, £2, and 12s. j Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Cycle and' Motor Supplies, Ltd., v. W. J. Marsden, 10s. costs; sams v. W. Richardson, 10s. costs; Hamilton's New Zealand Welding Co. v. A. E. Hunt, £1 15s. and 10s.; Commercial Agency, Ltd.,- and-Cycle aud Motor Supplies, Ltd., v. T. Alexander, £6 ss. fid., and M 3s. Gd.; Gordon and Gotch Proprietary, Ltd., v. A. Mason, £3 19s. 7d„ and 10s.; D. L. Kelly v. Vi> H. Wilkinson, £1 7s. Gd., and os.; same v. E. Purdy/iEI 55., and 55.; Bakers' Union v. J. Henderson, 4s. costs; Wellington Furniture Union v. Honry H. Wheelhouse, £1 19s. Gd., and ss. Judgment' Summons.—Joseph Williams was ordered to pay Frost and Frost .£ll 17s. by August 22, in default seven days' imprisonment.

POLICE BUSINESS. Katherino Evans was convicted of the theft of a skirt belonging to Marion Haddow, and was fined .£2. It was stated that the woman from whom the skirt was stolen had changed the garment at a draper's'.where she was trying an another skirt, and that the defendant was in the shop' at the time and committed tho theft. Georgo Miller was fined ,£2 because of a breach of a prohibition order. Peter John Anslow was sentenced to three months' imprisonment 'for stealing a bag and contents (valued at .£ls 18s. Gd.) belonging to Ilcnry Mulqiieen. The evidence was to the efl'ect'tliat Mulqueen nnd afriend went into an hotel and loft tho bag iu the lobby. On their way out they discovered that the bag had beon taken. Detective Carney subsequently recovered the bag and most of the property. The chiefi detectivo informed the Court that Anslow had several convictions against him and that the sentence respecting ono of thorn had just been completed.