RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CROMWELL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 116, 30 January 1872, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CROMWELL.

—o— Thursday, January 25. (Before Vincent Pyke, E*q., TIM., and Jamea Taylor, Esq., J. P. ) Keeping an Unregistered Dog.— W. Reid I Robertson was charged by Sergeant Cassels with | this offence, and was lined 40s. Breach of the Licensing Act.—Hugh j M'Pherson was fined £o and costs for being in- | toxicated on his licensed premises ; in default of payment, to bs imprisoned in Clyde gaol for 14 ; days. His Worship cautioned the ofiender not j to appear again before the Court on a similar | charge. The fine was paid. Obtaining Money under False Pretences. I—A charge of this nature was set down for | hearing, but was struck out on the application of the prosecutor. I Corporation of Cromwell v. Andrf.w Wood. j —This was a suit to recover the sum of £3 155., I being the amount of rates levied on defendant as the owner of a water-race running within the ■ limits of the Municipality. Mr 11. W. Smythies, Town Clerk and Rate Collector, appeared on behalf of the Corporation. The defendant put in j no definite plea, simply stating that he consij dered himself quite sufficiently taxed without having to pay Corporation lates for water-race j property. Judgment was given for amount i claimed, together with 9s. costs of Court. | Claim for Board and Lodging. ---Jesse Alley : sued Helen Spiers for the sum of £,'s Lis. DeI fendant pleaded not indebted, but having only i received the summons on the Tuesday previous to the sitting of the Court, she had been unable i to procure the attendance of witnesses on her ! behalf. His Worship said he would adjourn the | case for fourteen days, to give the defendant an | opportunity of substantiating her plea. DaVTDS">N v. AllßY. Claim. £l4 18s., for ■ work and labour done. A set-off amounting to I £ll 4s. 6.1. was put in by the defendant. Mr Brough for the plaintiff ; Mr Allanby for defendant. It appeared from the evidence of plaintiff that he was engaged by defendant, on the | '2oth November, to assist him in building a hotel ! at Carrickton. and had worked from that date ! until the 23rd December, for which he claimed I payment at tlie rate of 12s. per day. Xo agree- | ment as to amount of wages was made between j the parties when the plaintiff begin work. On , the 23rd December, when plaintiff asked for a settlement, Alley told him he could not pay him j in full just then, but gave him £2 on account. j Plaintiff had lived with defen lant in a tempo- ' rarv hut while the hotel was being built. The i defendant's evidence went to show that he had 1 never engaged the plaintiff at all, and never agreed to pay him wages. He (defendant) put ! up the hotel mainly for the sake of "giving hitn- ] self a job," and he had only allowed the plaintiff to stay with him because the man was "hard up" His Worship rvluced the set-off (one item of which was £1 15s. for one day's hire of ahorse) to £o lis. 61, and gave judgment for £7 Ss. 6.1., with 19s. costs, and 2ls. professional fee. Slaughter-House Licenses. Yow, of Bannock burn, applied for a renewal, which was ! granted. A similar application by John Ilalii--1 day was also granted.