THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 230, 3 November 1909, Page 2

THE COURTS.

idfy ' NEMESIS. I',! % '-lelegrapii.—Press Association. !,. Napier, Last Nighl. 11111,1 "ameil David Jlunii, alias Win. Williams Alias David Jackson, alias Ihoinas Williamson, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court this morning to breaking and entering a dwelling with intent to commit a crime. He appeared i(j betoie Mr. Justice Sim in the afternoon, imu was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. ! n A TEST LICENSING CASE. o . ft' r Dunedin, November 2. i , e l )l ' o3ec, 'lion against the Opliir 0 hotel-keeper of permitting },; s premises to be used as a dancing saloon, Mr. liarllirdomew S.M., following on a recent (| Lnglh,!. decision, held that oic isolated net did not constitute using, and dis;l missed the information. Great interest e sllown I>.V hotelkeepers in the case, L Inch was regarded as a test case. J CLAIM FOR LOST LUGGAGE, Wellington, November 2 Judgment. was given by Dr. McArthur, to-day in connection with three c aims for luggage lost in the wreck of the Penguin. In deciding in favor of the .."1 0,1 Company the magistrate held that the meaning of section 283 of (he Shinping and Seamen Act was that if a shipowner, by himself or his agents used duo diligence to make a ship seaworthy when she started he should not be liable for what happened afterwards 1 r when the ship was at sea, and that he 1 had no more control of her.