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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2537, 26 May 1882, Page 3

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OHBISTOHUROE. Fbiday, Mat 2S, [Before O. Whitefoord, B«q., 8.M., and F

Hobbs, Biq., J.P.] Dkttnkennsss.—Jane White, for being drunk and tiling obscene language, wa* fined £1 10s, or in default to be imprisoned for three days. Thomas Collins, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. A woman was fined 6s, or in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, with hard labor, Bobqbby and Httbbing.—Thomas Coffey was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £42 15s drawn on the Bank of Now Zealand, Southbridge, and purporting to be signed by one John Patterson. He pleadei guilty, but on the application of the police was remanded till June 2nd. Embezzlement.—F. H. Williams came up on remand from May 19th, charged with appropriating to his own use £229 the moneys of the New Zealand Government Railway Department. Mr Joynt, who appeared for the prosecution applied for a remand, as the case was not quite ready for bearing. Remanded till June 2nd. Assault.—A case against Isaac and Elizabeth Burt for assaulting John Wilson, at Biugsland, on May 21et, was adjourned till May 30th, Fbaud in Bankruptcy.—Judgment was given in a case of this kind against Nathaniel Vale, heard on May 19th. Defendant was charged by Fisher, a creditor, with failing to deliver up to the trustee in the estate some pert of his property. His Worship said he had no difficulty in deciding on the merits of the case. With regard to points of iow raised by Mr Joyce, tor the defence, there was no doubt that it woo competent for any creditor, without the intervention of the trustee, to institute a prosecution of the kind. As to a question whether or not the validity of the affidavit attached to the “ four days’ statement ” in an insolvent estate is affacted by being sworn to before a Justice of the Peace instead of a solicitor of the Supremo Court, as directed by the Act, Mr Wbitefoord said be thought it was a matter that u.itht very well be left to the higher Court to decide. It was a custom that had obtained withuu dispute up to the present, and he did not feel inclined to impeach the practice of a superior Court. Defendant would bo committed for trial. The action was the second in a series of five all relating to the same transactions. Xha first had been dismissed, A third was gone into with the same result as the second, i’he other two charges wore abandoned by Mr Spockman, who oppeared for the prosecution. Tala therefore stands committed for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court to be held at Christchurch, on two charges of fraud in bankruptcy. Rbetb T Heatbn. —This was a case heard on Thursday, in which plaintiff alleged ! e had been induced, by falsification of the books of the concern, to purchase a half share in a business called “The City Employment Agency.” The cash paid was £6O, and there was a bill for £4O current. Plaintiff sued for the £6O, His Worship gave judgment for the plaintiff with costs of Court, solicitor’s fee, and expenses of two witnesses.