AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 218, 20 August 1878, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

; ■ 4» Friday, August 16. (Before 11. H. Fenton, Esq., J.P.. and his Worship the Mayor.) disorderly conduct. i Jules Lelievre, John Rodrigues, Edward Brown, and Harry Munro, were charged on remand with this offence. The particulars appeared in our last issue. The Bench censured the parents of the boys for allowing them to knock about the streets at night. They hoped the police would look after the witness Parsons, who appeared ono of the most culpable of the lot. Lelievre and Rodrigues, against whom the offence was clearly proved, were fined 10s each and costs. The other two were dismissed with a caution. (The Resident Magistrate here took his seat upon the Bench, Mr Fenton retiring.) 7 Civil Cases. L. Le Vailla.it v. James Brown.—Adjourned case. Claim for fencing. - Mr Nalder stated that this case had been settled out of Court, plaintiff corroborating the Ktateinent. D. Le Comte, jun., v. Johnson.—Claim £20 for removal ot fencing. Mr Nalder for defendant. This was one of those unsatisfactory disputes as to boundary, of which insufficient and inaccurate surveys

appear to have bequeathed such a plentiful crop to the Peninsula. Plaintiff gave evidence at lengHi as to his purchase and occupation of the laud in question, and as to his having erected a fence according to a line of road laid down by Mr Towiisend., There was conflicting evidence as-to .this road line, the witnesses for defendant averring that the road pegs were not on the line of plaintiff's fence. The action of the Road Board was also in a somewhat irrelevant manner mixed up in the case, they having sold defendant the fencing whioh constituted the ground of action. Defendant had admittedly removed the fence, as he alleged to rectify his boundary. Ultimately the Bench reserved their decision. Johnson v. Le Comte.—Claim for £50. This was a cross action between the same parties, and was a claim of damages for removal of timber, grass seed, &c., from the ground in dispute. Verdict for defendant. ' The Court then adjourned. Monday, August 19. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., R.M.,) drunk and disorderly. For the above offence, and using obscene language, an inebriate (it being his first appearance) was' fined 20s and costs, viz., 10s on each charge. The Court then adjourned.