MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FORTNIGHT AS A "CURE." The. police cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday were lieardby Mr. P. V. Frazer, S.M. Thomas Lowry, who hod four previous convictions for drunkenness, was charged with having been drunk on Monday and with having broken the conditions of his prohibition order for the second timo. Lowry 'said he would rather go to gaol for ll days than spend,twelve months at Roto Roa Island Inebriates' Home. "Very well," stated Mr. Frazer, "I shall send you to gaol for a fortnight,' not as a punishment, but as a cure. It will get the liquor out of your 6ystem." One first-offending inebriate was fined the amount of his bail, 10a,, and another was mulcted in a penalty of ss. For having used obscene language on the Queen's "Wharf .'on Monday, William Pearson was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. For allowing horses to wander, J. ■J. Adams was fined 55., with 7s. costs, on each of two charges; and Charles Gadd J22, with 7s. costs. Walter Maddison ; was fined and costs for driving ten horses along Rintoul Street without having them yoked or harnessed. Walter Shand was fined 10s. for failing to have lights on his motor-car showing in which direction the car was proceeding. UNDEFENDED CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following undefended civil oases:— Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. Miohael Barrett. M 175., costs 18s.; G. Krebs v. Alfred Ernest Linley, £Z 155., costs lis.; Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. C. White, 155., costs 25.; saino v. H. Bates, ,£2 35., costs 145.; same v. R. E. Till, 95., costs 25.; same v. S. Stephens, J!5 165., costs £t 3s. 6d.; same v. W. Brown, .£2 Bb., costs 10s.; same v. F. W. Scott, .£3 8s„ costs 10s ; same v. C. Schulz, £& Bs., costs 175.; same v.'John.P. Murphy, ,£3B lis,, costs £2 145.; Herbert John Jillott v. Edward Jones, dCB7 Is. lid., costs £i 13s. Gd.j Wellington Hairdressers'. Union v. W. P. Smith, .£1 lis., costs 55.; Hannah Elizabeth Gcddis v. Barclay Hector, ,£BG Is., eoste M 13s. kl ; Mrs. E: E. Murray v. Mrs. A. Kirkwood, costs, 55., only; S. and W..Mackay v. George W. Waldy. M lis. 4d., costs 95.; Liusorus Wolfe Balkind v. Jesse Jackson and 'Lily Jackson .(separate estate), M 135.. costs £\ lis. 6d.; Hullonstein Bros., Ltd., v. A Holdon, 19s. 6d , oosts 75.; G.'H. Thornton v. A. Kean, JSI2 Is. 2d., costs jei 10s. lid.; Andrew Giay Cathie, James Lindsay Dempster, and William Irvine M'Callum v. E. J. Barnes, £i lis. 2d„ costs 55.; Wellington Storomen's Union v. W. Chandler, .£llßs., costs- 55.; same v. S. Konny, M 65., costs 55.; same v. S. Lancaster, £1 Gs., costs 55.; Phelps, Wilson and Co. v. Hugh Paterson, .£lO, costs il 3s. Gd.; N.Z. News Co., Ltd., v. Miss A. C. Frank, £37 Os. Gd., costs £i Us.; Stiles and Mntheson v. P. Farger, M 15s. 10d., costs 10s.

'JUDGMENT SUMMONS. On a judgment summons, Alexander Sutherland was ordered to pav the C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Co., Ltd., Xl 9 Us. 7d. i>y April 8, in def.itilt H days' imprisonment.

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