ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1917, Page 3

ELTHAM.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)' At the Eltharn Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, Mr. W. H. Haselden, S.M., occupying the bench, judgment by default was given in the following cases: H. Gubb v. A. E. Cooper £2 5s 9d, costs 15s; W. Clarry v. A. E. Speck £1 16s, costs 15s; W. C. Clement v. A. Hamilton £2l 9s 2d, costs £2 14s; Smalley and Co. v. F. Ansley £4 fls 9d, costs iss; same v. D. McNab £5 18s Id, costs 18s 6d; same v. A. Cruden £lO 2s 2d, costs 25s (id; same v. M. O'Keefe £1 19s 7d, costs ss; Marshall and Corey v. George Jackson £1 13s 2d, costs 13s;' G. T. Walters v. Thos. Woodheap £2O 3s 9d, costs £2 19s; T. B. Crump v. George Wood £9 15s, costs £1 0s 6d; F. Bertie v. Henry Ward £G 3a 6d, costs £1 lis fid; L." T. Cresswell v. Duncan McNab £4 12s 2d, costs 10s; L. Bunn v. P. Speck £4 10s, costs ss. In the jndsment summons A. Melville v. C. Lielitwark, an order was made that defendant pay the balance of £7 12s fid, at the rate of £1 per week, in default 15 days' imprisonment.

Major Scotncy, of tlie Salvation Army Boys' Home, was charged with allowing cattle to wander on the county roads. He pleaded guilty under extenuating circumstances. The magistrate said that everybody was in full sympathy with the good work done by the Army, and if the adjutant would promise that the offence would not he repeated he would dismiss the information.—This course was agreed to.—Argus.