Around and About The Courts

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 5

Around and About The Courts

| UCKY Jack Tars there may ;be, but • Ll Robert Yule Baillie, of the good ship H.M.S. Dunedin, has his doubts. So far as the marriage lottery is concerned, the proverbial good fortune of the Navy deserted Baillie from his wedding day two years ago. Married to Ethel Baillie m ah Auckland registry office, the sailer sailed for England the same day, and that was the last he saw of his bride. And he will not be seeing her again — not aa his. wife, anyway— for a Supremo Court Judge j has made a decree nisi m his favor to be made absolute In three months. * #■..■• THE man who can sing, a good song ■*■ or put across a new "turn" is a useful unit .at a smoke concert. Such has been the ;, role filled m Christchurch recently by Albert Holt, who has been describing himself m the city by the Avon as Bland Holt junior, claiming relationship to the famous Thespian of that ilk. But he came m for a good deal of unwelcome publicity quite re-cently-'when. he was charged m the Police Court with a serious offence m respect of a young girl. Holt pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. When his .case was called .m the Supreme Court, . before Mr. , Justice Adams, court officials and policemen went scurrying through every exit to summon the, accused, but their stentorian calls for "Albert Holt" were of no avail. Holt was nowhere to be found. V V The prisoner had absconded, the police had been unable to locate him, and it was therefore necessary to apply under' ; the Crown Suits Act for the estreat of the bail. A ..warrant has been, issued for the apprehension of Holt. ■."#■• : «:'■ * T ARRIKINS, who intend visiting *-* Sunday concerts m the future, would be well advised to learn by heart the warning issued by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M. The popularity of Sunday concerts is now a well established fact, and on a recent Sunday at the Wellington Grand Opera House, a band concert had attracted a packed house. The entertainment was utterly spoilt from the beginning to the end, by a crowd of youths m the gallery. One youth, whose name was suppressed, presented a very sorry figure when he appeared on sum« mons m the Wellington Police Court and pleaded not guilty to a charge of creating, a disturbance m the Grand' Opera House. \ "It is intolerable that the public and^ the artists have to be subjected to such behavior," said Mr. Barton, "and although I will halve the fine this time, because this youth is earning, a small wage, I wish to make it known that any future offenders will not get off so lightly." The youth v/as fined £3 and costs £1/9/-, to be paid at the rate of 10/---per week. I'm waiting still through the waning years, Whilst shadows spread like a mist of Waiting with faith while the fears begin, "Waiting for Ships Which Never Come In!" Out on lone cliffs by the harbor bar, Watching and waiting for sails afar; . Drenched and weary, with chills to endure, Sustained by Woods* Great Peppermint Cure/*

MOTHER-IN-LAW was' quoted as the - third 1 point m the eternal triangle by Ethel Moore when she asked the Judge to make her husband, Leonard Wallis Moore, return to her. "My. mother-in-law, did not think his marriage with me was good enough. She thought her son should have married money, whereas I was just working m the city," stated the. wife who wanted her husband back. I Moore, however, to use his own expression when his wife asked; him to return, was "finished" ; but -.with this his Honor did not agree. . The missing Moore was ordered to return to. his wife within fourteen days. • # .•••;.; „;»:••;-. THIRTY- SEVEN, not out— such was tlie 'list" credited to Frederick Pimm, when he was haled -before Mr. A. Lowrie; ! J.P., m the Temuka Court, to answer a charge of drunkenness. Sergeant Dwan stated that defendant had been "roaring like a bull, and making a general nuisance of himself when arrested." He had been applying himself conscientiously m an endeavor to

quench a troublesome thirst during the past few years. A fine of 20/-, In default 4S hours, was the verdict. * # * WITNESS (m Temuka Court): The • horse wandered down; to the creek. Sergeant Dwan: That is not the statement you made to the police. Witness: No, the police took me unawares. Mr. Orr-Walker, S.M.: Get out of that box. We don't want that sort of thing here! • * * * AFTER tickling the musical palate of a Temuka audience at a sacred band concert on a recent Sunday evening, Sajnuel Burns and Maurice Murray, two Timaru members bf the Temuka Band, adjourned to the Empire Hotel for the purpose of tickling their own palates with liquid refreshment. Everything went off to schedule, until P.C. Southworth, passing the hotel and hearing voices m the bar, looked, m and made himself known. Burns and Murray were subsequently charged before Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., with being found on licensed premises 'after hours. Mr. W. D. Campbell (Timaru) appeared for defendants, .and endeavored to show that ,:they had been bona fide boarders, having in+«nded to stay the night at the hotel. It was stated that defendants had been. allotted a room by the proprietor, but had not been entered m the guestbook. The Magistrate intimated that he was. unable to accept the defence, and convicted and fined, each defendant £.2 and costs. ' Matthew Coffey, proprietor of the Empire Hotel, for selling liquor at a time when such premises were, required by law to be closed, was convicted and fined £5 and costs. (

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JF Annie Matilda Powdrill ever be- .... lieved m omens, her belief has only been strengthened by her marriage to Thomas Powdrill and subsequent happenings. It was the thirteenth day of January, 1926, that her husband, then a traveller, kept on,travelling, and although she went back to him and for a time they lived at Heme Bay, the wanderlust again took hold of him. But now he has wandered for the last time, for his wife has put an end to his habits by successfully petitioning for a .divorce, Mr. Justice Herdman granting a decree, nisi to be made absolute m three months. .•.....•:'.. • . . gRNEST William Hoffman has been a fairly regular attender at the Gore Court for some time past. He will be missing for twelve months now on vacation at the Invercargill Borstal. Hoffman and two other youths the other night entered Aitken's Garage, took out a new car, raced it to the race course, "seized the engine and left it there". Not. content .with this Hoffman walked back to Gore, got another car from the same place and abandoned it on one of the back streets. It appeared that he and one of the "other youths had spent that afternoon filling themselves iip with wine. William Arthur Stewart, one of his colleagues m the conversion episode, considered that the, car was doing 50 miles an hour on the way to the racecourse. The joy ride cost Stewart a total of £10/10/-, v • s David Adamson, the other youth concerned, escaped with a caution and a bill for damages totalling £3.