MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2166, 3 February 1881, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

OHBIBTOHUBOH. Wednesday, Fbbhuaet 2. '{"Before J. Nugent Wood, Esq., 8.M.. J. E. Parker, B. Westenra, and F. H. M. Walker, EsqrsJ Or Tin Oases —Liddel v Union Steamship Company, In this cose, wherein on a former occasion plaintiff had sued the company for damages on account of the loss of a case of saddlery,, sent by one of their ships from Wellington to Lyttelton, and a judgment had been given for defendants, Mr Stringer now applied for a re hearing, which, after some opposition from Mr Naldor, who appeared for the Company, was granted, to be heard one month from date. Hutchinson ▼ Smith. £46 Os 2d. Mr Harper for plaintiff. Mr Joyce for defendant. This was a claim for commission for letting the South Otago Hotel, Oamaru. The defence was that the transaction had not been brought about by plaintiff’s agency. After hearing evidence, the Bench thought that plaintiff had taken a great deal of trouble in trying to find a tenant, and was entitled o remuneration for It. Judgment for plaintiff for £lO, with costs. Millett v Travers, claim £76 12s 6.1. Mr Izard for plaintiff, Mr Fereday for defendant. Plaintiff having obtained judgment by default against defendant in May last as executor in the estate of one Gillingham, served him with a distress warrant applying to the goods of Gillingham, which was returned marked “ No effects.” A second warrant of the same kind met with a like result. The present action sought to make defendant personally liable. After lengthy argument the case was allowed to stand over for one week, to give defendant time to apply for a re-hearing if he was so advised. Clark t Tilford, claim £23 6s for work done and material supplied in building a house. Mr Stringer for plaintiff ; Mr Perceval for defendant. £9 9s 6d had been paid into Court. Judgment for plaintiff for £3 Is 6d in addition to the amount paid in. Judgment went for plaintiffs by default in Vincent and Co. v Little, £47. Thdbjdat, Fbdbttabt 3 {[Before B. Westenra and J. B. Parker, Baqs., J.P.’s.] Obtaining Monbt on Falsb PasTHNOBB —Isaac Levy was brought up charged with obtaining from Patrick Connor the sum of 12s 6J on the 13th December last. The police applied for a remand, which was granted till the 10th inst.

Child Thieves.— Two children, named Thomas Bail and William Hyland, were charged with stealing eight lamp globes, the property of Mason, Struthers, and Co. They were of the ages of eight and nine years respectively, and the police stated that the act they were brought up for was one of deliberate theft. They had stolen the globes and sold them afterwards. They were remanded till Saturday, being alio wed to go away, on their parents undertaking to produce them on that ■ay. Vagrancy. —Peter Cook was brought up under the Vagrancy Act, charged with having no lawful visible means of support. The Eolico gave him a very bad character, saying e lived on the proceeds of his wife’s prostitution, and did nothing but loaf about town in the worst company. On his representation that he had a job to go to immediately up country, the case was held over till next Monday, to be dropped then if he had disappeared from town.