MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

REMANDED ON THEFT CHARGE POLICE, CIVIL AND BY-LAW CASES The theft of a watch and chain, a locket, and wallet contents, total value £2 55., .was alleged against James Howard, a seaman on the s.s. Hororata, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. The police stated that the articles were the property of John Dawson, another member of the crew. On jthe application of Sub-Inspector Willis, a remand was granted, and the accused will appear again to-day. Joseph Pottinger and John Kilmartin, who had been 'found in the early hours yesterday morning on occupied property, were charged singly with vagrancy. The Magistrate said he was satisfied there was no criminal intent attached to the trespass, and dismissed the accused accordingly. CIVIL CASES Judgment by default was given in the following undefended civil cases by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.Hope Gibbons and Sons and J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., v. R. M. Gray, £43 17s. 2d., costs XI 10s. ; P. Mackin v. R. Blandford, X 3 13s. 6d., costs .£1 3s. 6d.; van Staveren Bros., Ltd., v. F. J. Torri, £8 4s. 2d., costs 155.; A. Walsh v. John Hopkins, £2O 19s. Bd., costs £3 Is.; W. H. Nimmo v. W. Corlett, £9 17s. 2d:, costs XI 13s. 6d.; Hope Gibbons, Ltd., v. E. C. Sparksman, X5l 19s. 5d., costs £2; Frank Herbert Woodward v. Howard Nattrass, £4O, costs £4 3s. 6d.; Alex. Ross Engineering Co., Ltd., v. C. Wadley, £l6 4s. 6d., co.tfs X2 14s.*; Robert Roland Coppock v. Leia E. C. Millar, £6O, costs £4 10s. 6d.; John E. Hunt y. Archibald Smith, X2O 17s. 6d., costs X 3 Is.; Minnie Rose Arthur v. H. Langley, £7 and possession of premises, costs XI 10s.; L. Cohen v. L. Angell, £7 Is., costs XI 3s. 6d.; Margaret Bindon v. Ted Jones, £7, costs XI 10s. 6d. Mr. Riddell dealt also with judgment summons cases as follows: —G. A. Waddell was ordered to pay Crawley Ridley and Co. £8 2s. Gd. by April 14, m default seven days’ imprisonment; A. Jansen was ordered to pay the New Zealand Exoress Company, Ltd., XI 16s. lOd. by April 7, in default 24 hours’ imprison, ment; J. Quin was ordered to pay the same firm £7 17s. 6d. by April 14, ih default seven days’ imprisonment; Emma Meech was ordered to pay the New Zealand Automatic Bakeries, Ltd., X- 15e. by April 14, in default 48 hours imprisonment; and Daniel Tonkins was ordered to pay the same company XI 15s. 2d., the alternative to payment being 48 hours’ imprisonment. by-lawTases Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt with bylaw cases yesterday afternoon. - The Miramar Borough Council (.Mr. D. Jackson) sued the Wellington Gas Company (Mr. H. R. Neave), under by-law 12 of the council’s statutes, for polluting a stream near King’s Rond by allowing to discharge therein coke breeze and waste water from a retort. For the defendants, Mr. Neeve admitted that the waste had been allowed to flow into the stream, but said that under a new sys, tern providing for a vertical retort, the nuisance would be eliminated. The case was adjourned for a month pending further inquiries.' For erecting a dwelling without a permit from the Eastbourne Borough Council, Elizabeth, James Henry, and William Robert Highman were ordered to pay the costs of the action, amounting to XI I’s and were instructed to apply tor a permit immediately, although the house wag practically completed. That doesn t sav vou’ll get the permit, remarked His Worship. On a second charge of using timber not sound and approved by tnicouncil. the defendants were exonerated "He told me he had no money, and when I asked him for his name lie would not tell me. He had hnd previous trouble with another conductor, so declared a witness when a man named Simpson was charged with evading payment of his fare on a corporation tram car. It appeared that the conductor had issued the defendant a ticket, which the latter did not' pay for when T ec l"J'' ted to do so, saying he had only ft XI not , which he would not give the conductor to change. Simpson, who did not appear, was fined £5 and costs 11s . Horace Rogers, chargeci with negligently driving a motor vehicle, was convicted and ordered to pay X 3 16s. costs.