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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2558, 20 June 1882, Page 3

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CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday, Junb 20. [Before J. Ollivier, B E, and C. B. Taylor, J.P J Drunkenness.—Wm. Brown was fined 10a, Wm. Lambert was fined ss. Indecent Assault. Georgo Ball was charged with indecently assaulting a girl, aged ten years. On the application of the police he was remanded till Wednesday. Laeceny from A Till —Robert Gray, aged twelve, Willliam Gray, aged ten, B. Q. Thomas, aged eight, and William Harvey, aged eight years, were charged with stealing silver and copper coins to the value of about £7 from a wooden box which served as a till in the pork small goods shop of McGregor Watt, Victoria street, between 7 p.m. on Saturday night and Monday morning last. The boys Gray pleaded guilty, the others denied the offence. Tho shop had been entered by a back window, and the boys being suspected were on Monday arrested, when they all confessed to having taken on Sunday afternoon the money which they partially spent in riding on the tramcars, and purchasing lollies and cakes. On the elder Gray was found £2 19s 6d in silver. After tho boys’ parents, who were in attendance, had received a severe lecture for their apparent neglect, the accused were discharged on the condition that they should bo taken to the look-up, and there soundly flogged with a birch rod in the presence of a constable. Civil Casus.—lrving v Hoddinot. The parties are Foresters. Plaintiff being the doctor of their lodge, examined defendant’s wife for insanity, and charged £1 Is, the amount sued for, as his fee. Defendant refused to pay, contending that the services came within tho scope of his duties for which the doctor was paid by the lodge. Judgment for plaintiff with costs. Judgments were also for plaintiffs in Donald v Ridley, £6 133, for wages; Willis and Dunlop v Teague, 15s, for advertising j same v Willcox, claim £1 Is, for advertising, judgment for 11s ; Hankins v| Norton, £1 Is 10s, and same v Swindell, 10 j Id, for meat supplied. Judgment was for defendant in Willis and Dunlop v Fox, claim £4 7a 6d, Judgments went by default for plaintiffs with costs in Booth and Son v Graham, £lJl7s; Levy v Ferguson, £7 14s; Matson and Co. v Warburton, £'o ; Crown Brewery Company v Sheep, £1 17s 61 ; same v Harris, £1 ss; same Brosnahan, £2O ; Hobbs and Goodwin v Lewis, £8 ; Willis and Dunlop v Straohan, £5 7s 6d ; Pengelly v Harper, £2 14s; Mills v Carroll, £6 10j ; and Irving v Bateman, £4 17a 61; Rookwood Coal Company v Murray was adjourned till June 27th.