MARTON COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8913, 6 September 1907, Page 4

MARTON COURT.

Before Mr Stanford, S.M,

At Marton Court yesterday, before Mr Stanford, S.M., William Morris pleaded gnilty to being found drunk in Broadway on Wednesday night, and was convicted and discharged, provided lie paid £1 Is medical expenses incurred, in attending to an injured haiid within two days. ArchibaldJJßpodie, drover, of Bltham, who was charged by the police for that on 29th July, 1907, he did cause 95 calves to be conveyed between Hawera and Marton Junction in such a manner as to subject them to unnecessary suffering, pleaded that he had only acted under instructions from his employer. The police called evidence to show that the defendant had consigned 95 calves at Hawera for Palmerston North. Xhe railway authorities at Marton, noticing that the cattle were badlv overcrowded and that a number of them were down in the trucks, communicated with the police, and it was found that a number of the cattle, which had been put into only four trucks, each 15 feet by 7 feet, were dead or dying. As the defendant explained that ho had entrained the cattle early in the morning and that his employer, Jesse Hills, had booked the trucks, the Magistrate dismissed the charge against him on the understanding that the police would prosecute the employer. George Charles Cameron and Jeremiah Horn pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour in a railway carriage between Tnrakiua and Katana, and were each fined £1 and 23s 9d costs. , . , , W.|Smith (Mr.Ladley) pleaded not guilty to damaging the kerbing at the inter-section of Broadway ana Follott Streets, Marton, by driving a traction engine over it, and alter evidence was heard, was convicted and fined £1 and 38s costs, and ordered to pay £3, the amount of damage done. Judgment by default was given in the following cases:—Dr. A. G. Brvdon (Mr Miles) v. Reuben Ashford, claim £3, costs 29s Gd; Same v Andrew Cave, claim £5, costs 22s 6d; Ellen Blair (Mr Collins) v. William Curry, claim 30s, costs ss; Same (Mr Collins)| v. Hiraka te Rango, claim £6 6s, costs 39s Gd; Elizabeth J. Linton (Mr Lyon) v. A M. Lopeleksi, claim £2 10s, costs 5s Ellen Blair (Mr Collins) v. J. Pulford, claim £5 Gs Gd, costs 28s Gd. Henry Hinks, who did not appear, was ordered to pay forthwith £IG 8s Gd due to James Turner, in default one mouth’s imprisonment in Wanganui prison, the warrant to bo suspended for 14 days. _ Reremoana Tohikura, who also did not appear, was ordered to pay forthwith £9 3s Gd, duo to Joseph B. Warriner, in default one mouth’s imprisonment in Wanganui prison. Hr Ladley appeared for the creditor in each case.