COURTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9170, 13 June 1908, Page 4

COURTS.

Press Association. '' Wellington, Jane J ■] At the Supreme Court to-i ) James Nicholls, a quarryman, s' i the City Council for £250 daraat* J for injuries in a tram accident "N v was alleged that owing-;■ J ".\ jm negligence of the AgP ployees in permitting the overcrowded, and the motorman denly and negligently turning on tne] full motive power, causink the car" to violently and suddenly jerk—plaintiff was thrown frenithe tram' 1 and injured; also that h ; suffered further injury after thrown out by of the Corporation employees not promptly stopping the car. The jury returned a verdict for the City Gouuc.il, and judgment was entered accordingly with costs. Gieymontli, June .12. At the Magistrate’s Court before Mr Turtou, S.M., John J. Todd and Frank Healey (alias Walsh), were charged with having at on May 27th, burglariously entered‘ p-he Otira railway station and p -j therefrom the sum of £132 V"" ‘k* property of the New Zealand, gl!' eminent. ’ Iff Great interest was taken . p trial, and the' Courthouselt crowded all day. Over SO wit || have been summoned to gh # |,!| deuce. ‘ 0 R" The evidence of the pork;- B stationmaster went to show th B office had been entered by mea,. forcing the window. The sate .... || had been blown, to pieecs, atf the floor was an iron bar and ja files. There was also a quantity 19 moss and mail bags around the saJL Several witnesses residing iir Kumara and Otira gave evidence that they had seen accused riding bicycles on the road to Otira the day previous to the robbery, and 'returning nest day. One witness stated that he saw the men meet in Kumara, one having arrived from Greymouth the night before and the other from Hokitika in the morning. The Conrt adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o’clock, bail being fixed at £2OO each, and sureties of £IOO each.

Palmerston N., June 13. At the Supreme Court this morning, counsel for plantiff in tiie case Hamer v. Hornblow, proprietor of Manawatn Herald, a claim of |£sol damages for alleged libel, statedphat the action had been withdrawn,” defendant having admitted that the luuendoes complained of in the article were capable of bearing the construction upon them by plaintiff, but were not intended. Details aspo costs etc., are to be settled between the parties.

The first case on Monday morning will be W. J. Conner v. W. Waugh, a claim of £lO3l damages, arising out of the recent stabbing affair, when plaintiff who is a constable stationed here was stabbed by defendant while arresting him. Tho charge is admitted and the case comes before a Jury for assessment of damages. The action in which D. Ross claims £IOOO damages from Msnawatu Racing Club for alleged injury to character, in refusing him a license to bet on Awapuni course, on tthe second day of the Club’s autumn meeting has been adjourned sine die.