AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 252, 17 December 1878, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

> Friday, Dec 13. Justin Aylmer, Esq., K.M.) ■'. ■ - J ' Civil Cases. OBORN V. ANNINQ. Claim £100, for damage sustained by illegal pounding and other damages alleged to have been inflicted by defendant on plaintiff through wrongful occupation by the latter of certain paddocks leased by defendant. Mr J. S. Williams appeared for the plaintiff. It appeared from the evidence that plaintiff rented certain paddocks in Grehan valley from Mr H. Funnell. He held them on a written agreement which was yet unexpired. Last month he met Funnell and said he wanted to be released. As it was the end of the quarter ho would like to give them up at once. In consequence of this conversation, Funnell told Arming that the paddocks were at liberty, and he would let them to him on- the same terms as to Oborn. Defendant thereupon took possession of the paddocks, and sent plaintiff notice to remove the stock he had there. Told him that if they were not removed, he should impound them, and did so. Plaintiff, on the other hand, had given defendant notice not to put cattle into the paddocks as he had not given them up. It was contended for the plaintiff—first, that his offer to give up the paddocks was conditional on his being paid for certain improvements which he had r erected, and secondly that in point of fact he never had absolutely given up possession of the paddocks, or been released from his agreement, which was therefore still in force. The defendant urged that he had nothing whatever to do with Oborn in the matter. Ho had taken the paddocks from FunnSll, who had given him possession. The Bench reserved its decision iill Tuesday, 17th inst. BRIDGE V. RICH. Claim, £11 17s 7d. Judgment by default for amount claimed with costs. The Court then adjourned. Saturday, Nov.-14. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., E.M.) CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. May White, a young Maori woman, residing at Little Eiver, was charged with concealing the birth of a child. The case was heard with closed doors. The Rev. J, W. Stack was sworn to act as interpreter. From the evidence, it appeared that accused had been a pupil at the Native school, Little Eiver. About the beginning of August last the schoolmaster,

Captain J. Curling,, had his suspicion aroused that accused was pregnant. On the 27th September, he wrote to the chairman of the School Committee, communicating those suspicions. The chairman, George Robinson,, bad an interview with accused in consequence. She denied that there was rtny foundation , for the suspicions. On being arrested she also told tho constable that she had never had a child, and that what people gaid about, her was lies. ' ' At this stage' of the enquiry, the Court adjourned to secure the attendance- of Dr Guthrie. ~ ' Dr Guthrie deposed to having examined accused. His evidence was entirely of a technical nature. The Bench,;considered that; the medical evidence was scarcely sufficient to" sustain the charge preferred, and accused would be discharged. . The Court then adjourned.