AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 614, 2 June 1882, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, May 30,

Befoke Justin Aywvier, Esq., R.M,

CIVIL CASES,

E. Thomas v. F. Orchard. Claim £2 10s. Adjourned, owing to illness of plaintiff, for one week.

Okain's Bay Road Board v. James Dalglish. Claim £29 Is Bd, for wharfage. Defendant had paid £25 11s 4d into Court. John Recce, sworn, said that he had charge of the Le Bon's Bay Jeity under the Road Board. He had served defendant with a notice to pay £29 Is 8d for due 3. Tne sum was due, and ho was the person properly authorised to receive it.

By Mr Dalglish : The sum is principally for wharfage on timber. There are no measurements taken ; the accounts ace charged by a knowledges of what each truck contains, and also of the capacity of the vessels carrying the stuff away. Would not measure the timber as sent down, as it was too dangerous. Was sore the amounts weTo not overestimated. Had rendered detailed accounts to Mr Dalglish. Mr Dalglish had made no objection, had never been to see plaintiff, or tried to make any arrangement to square tha account.

Mr Dalglish then examined witness as to certain items of the account which he considered incorrect. One was a charge for 17,000 ft timber, which he said should be 14,000 ; another, a charge for 800 posts by the Minnie, which ho (Mr Dalglish) affirmed that vessel could not cany, pioducing receipt of deliveiy of 400 odd, which he said were the same as those charged 800. A lot of grass seed and bales, with wharfage for which he had been debited, ought to have boon charged to his men, and not himself, who had nothing to do with them.

Mr Dalglish. on being sworn, said that ho had paid into Court the sum he believed was justly due. The Bench thought Mr Dalglish should have taken sleps to arrange the matter with plaintiffs before, and gave judgment for full amount claimed and costs.

Tho Court then rose