MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2297, 13 August 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Fbidat, August 12. [Before E. Westenra and J, E, Parker, Esqs., J.P.’s.] Civil Oases. —Hancock v Kingdon, claim £5 13» for rent, &o, Mr Loughray for defendant. Judgment for plaintiff for 16s, he to pay costs. MoLelland v McGowan, £3 10s, and McClatchie & Co. v Linnie, £9 10s. Judgments for plaintiffs. In Compton v Green, £5 15s, judgment was for defendant, with costa. Judgments went by default for plaintiffs in Leaver v Honore, £1 j Taylor v Hillier, £3 8s 9d ; Mason, Stmthers and Co. v Thompson, £8 7s; Hay v Purdon, £3 Is; Same v Kennedy, £2; Magon v Gordon, £3 6s ; Barker v Ward, £7 10s ; Hobday and 00. v Olliver, 9« ; Carter v Thompson, 13s lOd j and MoAlpine v Watban, £sl9s 6d. Executors of 801 l Hay v Gilman was adjourned till August 19th, Satubdat, August 13. [Before J. E. Parker and J. Ollivier, Esqs., J.P.’s.] Dhunkbnnss,—For a first offence a man was li v'd s?>5 ?> and ordered to pay cab hire Is. Fobgkhy and Uttbbinq.— Frederick Cooper vrua charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £3 on tho Bank of New Zealand, purporting to bo drawn by Dr. Williams. Watt, a general storekeeper of Papanui road, deposed that on Saturday, the 6th inst., prisoner, after purchasing some goods, presented the cheque in question as payment. The cheque wee afterwards found to be value* less. The police asked for and obtained a remand till Thursday next, for the production of further evidence.

Obtaining Goods Fraudulently.—May A. Valentine, a little girl about eleven years old, was brought up charged with obtaining a pair of stockings from B. Cass, draper, by false representations, and also with attempting to defraud by means of a written order. Sergeant Mason stated that the little girl had bom acting under the direction of her mother, who was ill in bed. Ho asked for a remond till Friday next. The remand was granted. Bail, in her fathor’e surety of £2O, was accepted for the accused. Labobnt. —Maurice Harper alias Morgan Harper, was brought up charged with having, on the 10th inst., stolen a suit of clothes, a hat, and a looking-glass, valued in all at £3, the property of John Hazlehurst, of Yaldhurat. Geo. Hepworth, farmer, stated that on Wednesday last he heard that a suit of clothes had been stolen from his place. Ho watched prisoner, and seeing him go into a gorge fence followed him, and there found the glass and the hat produced. John Hazelburst deposed to missing the property produced out of a where. A coat had been found in a gorse fence, bub the rest of tho suit was still missing. He was present when the articles were found, and prisoner was “ poked out ” of the same fence a little higher up. The police asked for a remand to produce a witness to whom the prisoner had offered some of the clothing for sale. Remanded accordingly till Monday next.