AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 176, 26 March 1878, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, March 19. (Before Justin Ayliner, Esq., R.M.) ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Luke Perham was charged with using - .abusive and insulting - language to Con.stable M'Gonnan, on the Bth March. The language complained of was that defendant had said to M'Gorrnan—" You are a cur; you are no man." A cross action was then heard between the same patties, in which Perham charged the constable with having told him to " take a carrot," It appeared that some dispute had arisen between them in reference to the settlement of some account, hence a quarrel had arisen. The Bench dismissed both cases.

ASSAULT. Annie Blower appeared in answer to a summons, charging her with assaulting Leontine Malmanche, at Barry's Bay, on Thursday, the 14th inst. According to complainant's statement, she was quietly passing a neighbor's place, when defendant rushed out, seized '"bir by the hair, and committed the assault complained of. Mrs Blower, on the other hand, produced three witnesses, whose evidence went to show that the complainant had made use of some very naughty and decidedly unparliamentary language to the defendant, and had also assaulted her first. His Worship dismissed the case, intimating that if their quarrels brought their* before the Court again, he should find it necessary to bind them both over to keep the peace. CATTLE TRESPASS. A. Rodrigues, for allowing a horse to wander at large, was fined 5s and costs. Civil Cases. D. Wright, for the Chairman of Okain's Road Board, v. Thacker.—Adjourned to the 26th instant. Perham v. Niedler.—Claim, £3 17s. Defendant is a Maori, residing at Little River, and the colored gentleman, who appeared in answer to the summons, was not the real Simon Pure, though plaintiff stated that they were "as like as two peas." As the summons had been served on the wrong man, a fresh one was ordered to issue. The Court then adjourned.