THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5

THE COURTS.

A CONVICTION QUASHED.

By Telegraph.— Press Association. ft Christchurch, Last Night. .*>' In the case in which James Loyd was - 1 sentenced at Kaikoura by Mr. Florence, * 8.M., to three months' for breach of a prohibition order, Mr. Hunt applied to $ the Supreme Court that the rule nisi on a writ of habeas corpus be made '< absolute. Mr. Justice Sim, in agreeing, remarked that the conviction on which . the warrant was issued was bad, and added that it seemed unfortunave toat >, the Magistrate did not take the trouble ?'* to read the section; as if he had doße • ' v so he would have seen there was no poAver to impose punishment in the first :■■* instance. ■ ■ ■'.

BREACHES OF PROHIBITION ORDERS.

Ckristchurch, Last Xignt. * To-day eight charges in re&pect to.** breaches of prohibition orders were\ ' dealt with by Mr. Bishop, S.M., who ex- i pressed considerable astonishment' at <•*« the number of cases. In three eases' r 3 fines of 10s were imposed, in three. *« others 40s, and in one 20s. George Wil-, **' son was fined £5 for assisting a pro- '• hibited person to drink liquor. * *

ILLEGAL NOTICES.

Invercargill, Last Night s > . Thomas Lewis,-of Lewis and Co., ers, was to-day fined 10s and 7 costs -tor & a breach of the Police Offences Act in *,' having sen* to a debtor a notice which i$ was likely, by x reason of its wording and., *" appearance, to cause any .person Ignor- 7» ant of the law to ibelieve itfhsd legal ef« ;""i feet. The collector who delivered the' . - notice was'similarly fined. It is, Sieved' \ to be the first case of the kind in South* *?. ■ land. '%