THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 9, 4 February 1909, Page 2

THE COURTS.

MINE -MANAGER FIXED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Last week Mr Widdowson, S.M.,heard si case in which Alexander Sinclair Gillander, manager of Freeman's colliery, •Abbotsford, was charged that, being •manager of the said coal mine, he did not maintain 150 cubic feet of air per -minute for every animal employed underground as required by the Act. This •morning the .Magistrate gave his decision, holding that a breach of the Act had been committed. Defendant was •lined AJS and costs.

A PECULIAR CASE. Napier, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Jlr. McCarthy, S.M., James Goggan, I n tliolie priest, was charged with committing a breach of the Napier painters' and decorators' award ia employing a lad named John Council without first ■employing a journeyman as required by 'llie award, and also with employing, fliini, without first having him duly in- | de.nturcd'. The Inspector of Awards I said defendant instructed Connell, his 'house boy, to do some painting at the 'new Catholic infants' school. The secretary of the Painters' Union approached defendant, and pointed out that the boy was not apprenticed. The defendant refused to apprentice the boy, and said he would contest the matter. The solicitor for defendant said the boy was tin orphan and had been taken in hand Iby Father Goggan, who employed him w't.the rate of 29s a week. Father Goggan had a good deal of painting work klone by contract, but a practical man ihad assisted the boy to execute some of 'the painting of the schoo-l. Legal questions were raised, and the Magistrate reserved judgment. |

A FAMILY QUARREL. Wellington, Wednesday. » Augustus Baggarly appeared at the Police Court this morning on a charge of using behaviour whereby & breach y? the pence was occasioned. Evidence showed that accused lived with bis wife a l Carterton. Owing to a difference his wife came to Wellington. Accused •followed and met her in ♦Sydney- street, accompanied by her brother and sister. The brother threatened to strike Daggari.v and the latter drew a loaded re,'volver aud threatened to dwot him and take his own life. Counsel for accused said that the dispute had been fixed up and that the parties intended to live together again. A tine of 20a was imposed and accused was bouml over to keep the peaee towards his brother-in-law for six months.

J TttAXSKEBKXUE OK SEAMEN. Wellington, Wednesday. In the appeal case Smith (Superintendent of .Marine) v. SuteliU'e (master of the. Tongariro), Judge Cooper to-day decided that tlie master of the vessel iimsl cuter in the customary agreement when transferring seamen from one ship lo another. A seaman unnicd 'Young .hail been transferred from the I Tongariro to the Hiiuutaka without re- ' ceil ing a ceUilieate of discharge from the .captain of the. Tnugarii-o. a:t'l without being lirnught before t!'; '■ ■■ inteuilelit ut' Marine. Ilis 1 -'I that the master of u ship im:-< . , : a j seaman legally discharged from his original ship.