MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 626, 21 June 1876, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday, June 20. (Before G. L. Mellish, Esq, R.M.) Civil Cases. —R. Brown v J. L. Kimble ; claim £5 3s 2d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 13s. Vincent and Co v J. Ward ; claim £6 12s 6d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 18s. C. Dunford vA. Smyth ; claim £7 8s 4d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 17s, H. Stace vA. Smith ; claim £ll 8s ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 20s. Morrow, Bassett and Co v G. H. Brown ; claim £G 8s 8d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 375. Superintendent by East Christchurch Educational District v H. Gain; claim £1 ; Mr Thomas for defendant, Mr Garrick for plaintiff ; judgment for defendant, and costs 9s. Same vR. Glenn ; claim £1 ; Mr Garrick for plaintiff, Mr Thomas for defendant; judgment for defendant, with costs 9s. Same vA. Jameson ; claim £1; Mr Garrick for plaintiff; judgment for defendant, with costs 9s. Brins and Symes v C. H. Clark ; claim £5 10s 6d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 13s. Same vB. Hardy ; claim 17s 6d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 10s. Same v H. Lee ; claim £3 3s ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 9s. Same vT. Stout ; claim £2 8s ; judgment for amount claimed, and costs 9s. S, A. Patrick vW. Reed; claim £ll 9s (id ; Mr Nalder for defendant ; judgment for defendant, with costs £2, Same vA. Evans ; claim £ll 9s 6d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 20s. S. A, Patrick vR. Byron ; claim 17s 6d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs 10a. B; Reece v A. Smith : claim £3 18s 9d ; judgment by default for amount claimed, and coats I4s.

Wednesday, June 21, [Before G. L. Hellish, Esq, R.M ] Drunkenness.— An inebriate, for a first offence, was fined ss. Illegally on Premises. —Thomas Roberts was brought up, charged with being found illegally on the premises of Mr Crowe, Whately road. Mr J. Gapes stated that he learnt that one of his sons had given the accused permission to stay in the house for the night. The house is at present untenanted. Charge dismissed. Larceny. —Orlando Goodall, a young lad, was charged with stealing a teaspoon, silver watch, and some tools belonging to Mr J. H. Fisher, Antigua street. When arrested, the accused admitted having taken the spoon and one tool, and said that he had received the watch from Mrs Fisher to take to her son, but had lost it on the road. The spoon had been found at his mother s house. The evidence showed that Mrs Fisher had given the lad seven spoons to clean, and he had only returned six, persisting that no more than that number had been given to him. He was sent from the prosecutor’s shop on last Saturday for the watch, and when he returned he said he had forgotten to ask for it. Mrs Fisher stated that she had given the watch to the lad on that morning to take to the shop, It had not since been seen. The mother of the lad said she had found the spoon in the clock at her house placed there by her son. He had been an inmate of the Orphan School until lately, and was altogether beyond her control. She had occasion to complain of him repeatedly. He was thirteen years of age. Accused, in reply to the Bench, said he had lost the watch on the way from Mrs Fisher’s. His Worship said he would not enter a conviction against accused; but he would be sent to the IS aval Training School, Auckland, for two years, to be brought up in the teaching of the Church of England, LYTTELTON. Wednesday, June 21. (Before W. Donald, Esq, R.M. Drunkenness. —Henry Crabin, arrested by constable Moutray, charged with the above, was dismissed with a caution. Vagrancy.— Samuel Tayler, arrested by constable Devine, charged “with sleeping in a railway truck. The accused said that he had got work on the breakwater, and would turn to if he was discharged. The Bench adjourned the case for a week to enable the accused to go to work. Stowaway. Locblan Cameron was charged, by the purser of the s.s. Phoebe, with being stowed away on board that vessel on her run from Wellington to this port. Accused, who on demand had paid £l, half the passage money, was sentenced to four days’ imprisonment. Civil Case.— Walmsley v South ; claim, £1 10s, money lent on voyage ; Mr H, Nalder for plaintiff; judgment for amount claimed, with costs 19s and professional fee £1 Is.