AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 95, 15 June 1877, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, June 12, 1877. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., E.M.) CATTLE TRESPASS. C. W. Bridge was charged with allowing a horse to be at large in Jollie-street. Fined ss. and costs. DOG TAX. George Johnson was charged" with having an unregistered dog in his possession at Barry's Bay. ;;The dog has been registered since date of laying information. Fined 20s. and costs. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. This was an action by W. v. George Kobinson (a Maori), for using threatening and abusive language, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. It appears that the Maoris at the Kaik were driving Brown's cattle to the pound, when the language complained of was used. John Porter, junior stated that he heard the words complained of used, and that Robinson threatened to take it out of Brown with the stockwhip. Brown, exainined by the Bench, stated that he gave the defendant no provocation; he opened the gate to let the cattle pass through—indeed he would have taken down a few chains of fencing rather than obstruct them. The Bench remarked that he was uncommonly polite. The defendant called as witnesses Big William and Kahaine, but on their appearing in the witness box, all their knowledge of the English language had fled. His Worship decided to adjourn the case till Friday next, to allow an interpreter to be present, and also Te Kau the Maori magistrate. WASCOE V. HAMMOND. This case had been adjourned fjwn a previous court day, to enable the evidence of an expert to be taken. J. W. Higgins, called, stated that he was a shipwright. The damage done to the boat he estimated at £2. A plank would have to be taken out before the damage could be made good, and this would cost £2. John Brown, examined, stated that he saw defendant go off: in Wascoe's boat, but that he never got near enough any other boat to injure Wascoe's boat. The boat was brought back and moored in the same place as Hammond took it from. Examined by plaintiff : He did not go o££ with Hammond in the boat. He did not know much about boats ; he did not know the stem from the stern. Defendant, examined by the Bench, said: Wascoe and I went off in the damaged boat on Monday; it did not leak. The first time Wascoe spoke to me about the damage was on the Monday following the Sunday on which I had used his boat. The boat was put back in the same place as I found her, only the stern line was not made fast, but this would not matter, as the wind was blowing the boat away from the wharf, and it was not possible she could touch any other boat. The Bench gave judgment for the defendant, with costs, as he had failed to prove that the damage claimed for was done by the defendant,-who used the boat with the permission of Wascoe's responsible agent. KEARNEY V. ADAMS. Claim of £8 19s. for work done. No appearance of defendant. Judgment by default of amount claimed, with costs. W. Green appeared in answer to a judgment summons for £5. The debt had originally been only £2 13s. Gd. In answer to question's ■from the Bench, he stated that he was doing nothing ; that when he could get work he got small wages; he was recently off a sickbed; he had been ill for six months, and had a wife and five children. The Court would make no order in this case ; it would be adjourned for two months, till Tuesday, 7th August, to allow of a settlement being made with the creditor—Mr, Chadwick. The Court then adjourned.