LITTLE RIVER RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 183, 18 April 1878, Page 2

LITTLE RIVER RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday; April 13. (Before Justin Ayhner Esq., R. M.) CATTLE TRESPASS.

J. R. Gilliat, two cases, fined 10s each with costs. Win. Coop, two cases, fined 10s and 5s respectively with costs. H. Wakefield, E. Haines, F. Libeau, C. Neilson, and H. Barlow, were respectively fined 10s and costs for an offence of the above nature. BREACH OF DOG NUISANCE ORDINANCE. H. Barlow, and J. Curling were charged with the above, but as the dogs had been registered since the laying of the information, the cases were dismissed with a caution. BREACH OF PUBLIC HOUSE ORDINANCE. John Olphert, was charged with failing, to keep a light burning in his licensed hotel during the prescribed hours. The accused pleaded guilty, and was dismissed with a caution. ASSAULT. Julia Agnes Fulton v. John Keenan. The plaintiff said that the defendant had grossly abused her, and struck.her.

The defendant denied having struck the plaintiff, but acknowledged having used tbe language alleged, and having pushed her. The Bench considered the evidence conclusive and fined the accused 20s and costs. abusive and threatening language. Same v. Same. This case arose out of and was part of the former, the evidence being much the same. The Bench dismissed the accused with a caution.; . A case, E. De Malmanche v. M. Keenan, for a similar offence, was withdrawn.' Civil Cases. Price v. Wascoe. —This was a case to recover the sum of £9, balance of a ten-pound note alleged to have been given in payment of an account under one pound The plaintiff asserted that he had given his son a ten-pound note wherewith to settle a small debt of defendant's amounting to 12s Gd, and-tbat the lad returned with only 7s 6d change. He had asked the defendant for the balance, but he had

denied that he had received a ten-pound note, and in fact said he knew nothing whatever about it. W. Price was called, but could not swear it was a ten-pound note ho had received from his father, as he had never looked at it. The defendant said he knew nothing of the matter. If had been given a ten-pound note he had himself paid it away as a onepound note, but he recollected nothing of the occurrence. The Bench reserved judgment to Tuesday the 16th inst. The Conrt then adjourned.