MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10291, 28 May 1919, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. ' Mr F. V. Frazer. S.M.. presided over yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate s A woman who had spent twelve months on the inebriates’ island appeared as a fi-st offender for drunkenness. The accused had been undergoing a week » curative treatment, and was ordered to pay 17» 6d medical expenses, in default'to suffer imprisonment for seventy-two hours. A TRESPASSING HUSBAND. - Thomas Anthony Purcell pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and ot trespassing on his wife s property during the currency of » separation order. Mr Howie, who appeared for the accused. said that Purcell went to the houso whore ins 'vife lived in order to obtain his clothing. The separation order had only been made that attornoon, and while waiting for the police to arrive he drowned his sorrows in a few drinks at the 'bar of a hotel in the vicinity. The police did not put »n am appearance and apparently the defendant went -inside the house, hut he had no recollection of doing ■ Acting Sub-Inspector Emerson said Purcell had been warned not to go near his wife and was found in the house lying on a bed with his boots on. The magistrate informed the accused that ho was liable to three months imprisonment. Drink was his trouble and ho was 'not n. bad sort of naan when sober It was not the first order that his wife had been compelled to take out against him. He would bo given.a last chance and would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months df called upon. BY-LAW BREACHES.

Henry .Tames Day. for driving a vehicle, on the wrong side of the road at the intevscc 1 ’on of Jilunncrß and OU'ba str©€t6« was fined is. with 7s cost*. Patrick Cavatiagh, who was n frequent visitor to the court some time ago ’ur allowing cattle to wander at Khandallnh. wa* convicted and fined .£3 wj th costs on two similar charges. The defendant said that the reason of hu oowa ■wandering was that be allowed person* to go cm to his property in Order to gather firewood, and in consequent* they broke down *he fences. The ranger for the district stated that toe defendant s rows were a nuisance t-i the noignlinjirnnoo and recently a complaint was made that

twenty of them had taken charge of * resident's s property. Citizens were continually annoyed at night through cows belonging to Cavanagt, walking ovo» their verandahs. A wandering horse at Miramar cost Frank Monsioa 8s fid in costs, and Walter Blood was charged a similar amount in respect to a cow, Mitohell . Brows and James M. Pease were each fined 10s, with 8s fid costs, for allowing cattle to wander, and Charles Free JE3, with 8s fid costs. , CIVIL CASES. In the following undefended civil cases judgment was given for plaintiff by default Motor Tyre Repair Company ▼. Frank Law, JE2X 17s fid, costs j£2 14s: Public Trustee, as executor of the will of William Swadling, v. A. E. King, JEIS, costs JBI. 10s fid; J. T. Lewis and Company y Te Heuheu Tukino, £lO 16*. costs -£1 14s fid; Richard Keene and Francis Thomas Meyer, ,£33. costs -£2 14s: Wellington City Corporation v. Adelaida Robertson. .£ls Os sd, costs 16s; New Zealand Drug Company v. Knight and Company, £3 17s lOd, costs 10*.