MAGISTRATE'S COURT RETURNS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10013, 8 April 1910, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT RETURNS.

The returns of business transacted at th2 Masterton Magistrate' Court for the quarter ending 31st March show—Number of sittings presided over by a Stipendiary Magistrate, 11; number presided over by Justices of the Peace, 1; total 12: number of cases heard by Stipendiary Magistrate. 66; number heard by Justices, ;-j; : ; aggregate amount sued for. ; .'j Id; aggregate amount .tec . £: ;33 19s Id; applications Jhe; •. c , 4; orders mads, other tlir, : -v. :- ,'c summonses, 2; plain • en!. ::- J £ .•.; distress warrant issued, judgment summonses issued, orders made on judgment summon.- warrants of committal ifsii;s; Wi.ts of arrests issued, nil; number of summonses ard other processes served by the bailiff i and his r .stants within two miles, 204; number served over two miles, 47; distress warrants xecuted within two miles, 13; distress warrants executed within two miles, 13; distress warrants executed over two miles, 1; warrants of committal executed by the bailiff 2; civil fees paid in stamps, £l5B 10s 6d; licensing fees paid in stamps, nil. Seventy-two persons were taken into custody during the period, 69 of whom were males and three females. Six of these were discharged for want of evidence or want of ' prosecution, - : '!= ten cases were dismissed on ■ l . —its. Two were committed for ; ;/' summarily convicted, .- ; : fined and two imprison- : .in 2or surety. There Wv.-. ; . . of peremptory imprisonment, anu one was released under the First Offenders' Probation Act. Seven orders were made d r iing the quarter, while in three cases convictions were entered and defendants discharged with a caution. The criminal fees paid in Htamps totalled £8 lis, and the fines £36 18s, making a total of £45 9s. Forty-nine old age pensions were granted, two were refused and three are pending. ! THE SUPREME COURT. i Court sat three days for the hearing of criminal c?ses, during which four indictments were takuD. Of these three persons were convicte ! and one acquitted. One day was devoted to civil cases and judgment was entered \ in one case. The Court sat once in 1 chambers and dealt with two motions, \ It also sat once in banco, when four appeals from inferior Courts were ( heard. A decree nisi was granted in * a petition for divorce. In bank- 1 ruptcv, five debtors' petitions were 1 dealt and two creditors'. There were r six adjudications, and nine discharges s were granted. Probate was granted 1 in five estates, while letters of ad- * ministration were granted in four a others. The total bankruptcy fees received were £44 Is, and the fees ' other than bankruptcy £4B 16s, mak- 5 <ing a total of £92 17s. |