WAITARA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 April 1914, Page 6

WAITARA NEWS.

MAGISTRATE'S CO UKT. CIVIL CASUS. (Before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.) Judgment by default was given on Wednesday in the cases of A. (.!. Crawford v. Tnomas Terrin, claim £o, costs '3os (id; D. Hutchinson v. 11. M. l'altridge, claim £ti 10s 4d, cost= 23s od. Judgment Summons.—Piuehas and Sous v. 1). .0. Shute, claim H 17s. Defendant pleaded inability to pay. but bis Worship said that a» he worked on his wife's farm his labor was worth something, and he would make an order for payment, in default three days' imprisonment, -the order to be suspended so long as defendant paid 10s per month, the lirst payment to be made on April i'.l JHtKACHES OF GAMTXd ACT. Charles Stone and William James Jones, both of Waitara, were »epar:itely charged- that on March 5. at the Ui'enui Sports, they did play with an instrument of gaming at a game of chance. 1 Tlie prosecution alleged that tlie defendants were engaged in a game known as "Yankee Sijueal," in which the public bet that certain numbers marked on a revolving wheel would be opposite the pointer when the wheel came to a standstill. The game was one of chance, but it was admitted by the police that there was nothing "crooked" about it. Stone, who was unrepresented by counsel, admitted w'hat he termed "a technical breach," and was fined £1 and costs £1 Us !ld.

The charge against Jones, for whom Mr F. E. Wilson appeared, wi'.s dismissed. Evidence tended to the siiwstion that lie was a "buttoner." or "decoy duck." for the other defendant.

Constable La Pouplc a.-ked for and was granted an order to destroy tlie wheel seized from Chas. Stone. ASSAULT.

(.Vorge Haley was charged with assaulting Mori'i'-e. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined £2 and co-ts 12s, or 14 days' imprisonment. KI\ T (i COUNTRY LIQUOR.

Cieorge Robinson, coachdriver, pleaded guilty to delivering a paekage containing liquor within the proclaimed area, sneb package not bearinf the necessary advice. Fined 10s and costs. SCHOOL ATTEXDAXCE.

('. \. Howe was charged on four counts with failing to send a child, Xornum Agate, of which he was the -uardian, to school when school was open. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Kvidenee was given hy Mr Hooker, truant insneetor. Defendant said he was not guardian of the child, neither had 'he anything to do with him. Occasionally the boy had slept in his house, and sometimes had a meal there. The boy's father lived at Uruti. A. 11. Halcombc gave evidence that Mr Howe was -.jot the guardian of the child. The case was ; dismissed.