MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 179, 17 March 1914, Page 1

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mercer Thursday. lVfcr'' Mr F. V. Fra/.er, S.M CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. Nurmaii Nixon, a young man with a lumber of ;il a;c-% w_s charged with the theft cf a hat. He pleaded guilty, lut after evidence had been given he was convicted and smtenccd to sev n days' impnscnu.er.t with hj; r.l labour. Constable tievhii represented the tolice. 'lhe same accused wai cha'geri with having forged and uttered a cheque for £5 15s, at Mercer, on 16th February, On the application of the police a remand for eight days was granted. CIVIL JURISDICTION.

Judgment by cKfault was given in the following caFes: —F. Cook v. W. E. Wade, £2 (is Sd, with (is cost?; same v. W. Puata, £3 3i 4', with fig cosls; H. S. Valentire and Co. v. David Clark, £7 ]f>s, with 13s costs; same v. J. Potapu, £34 2s 5:1, with 28s costs; Keating and Pekin v. Stewart Mrlvor, £l2 12s 9d, with 15s ccsts; United Timber Company v. Herman Sharp, £6 5s 2d, with 18s costs. An order on a udgmert summors was made in the case of F. Cook v. H. Kawhiti, defendant bei - g ordered to pay £ll li 4J by the 31«t irst., in default 14 days' lmpilsorment. After hearing the evidence of the debtor in the judgment summors case of S. Cart r tnd Sonß v. H. Elmore, the Magistrate refuted to make an order