POLICE AND WARDEN’S COURTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 412, 11 March 1870, Page 2

POLICE AND WARDEN’S COURTS.

ALEXANDRA. Resident Magistrate’s Court. Monday, March 7. (Before V. Pyke, Esq., R ,M., and R. Finlay, Esq., J.P.) Samson v. Miller. —Claim £l9 16s 9d, for goods supplied. In the evidence it transpired that the defendant was a miner resiling at Drybread, and that he had claimed the protection of the Bankruptcy Court in 1867, at which time he was in. debted to the plaintiff in about £2O ; having received his certificate, he returned to Drybread, and contracted the debt now sought to be recovered on the understanding that the former debt be liquidated In defence it was set up that the claim now sued for was settled, and handed to the Bench receipted accounts, tin- which on being examined, proved to be the accounts of former debts. In answer to the Bench, the plaintiff stated he had brought the present action as the defendant had disposed of the whole of his property, and he believed, intended leaving the district. Verdict for full amount claimed, and 19s, costs. Immediate execution to issue. In default, three months imprisonment. Black v. Wilson.—Settled. Rivers v. Hillhouse,—'The Bench objected to go into the case, as the particulars of the claim were not sufficiently explicit, and ordered the issue, of a fresh summons.

Goltz v. Tunnell.—Damages to growing and other crops by a cow, the property of defendant. The trespass was admitted, but the defendant said he had removed the cow out of the neigebourhood. Verdict for £5, and 13s, co ts. William King whs charged by the Police with being drunk and disorderly. Pine! 20s. and costs. WARDEN’S COURT. (Tcfore V. Pyke, Faq., Warden.) M. M‘Guineas applied for leave to construct a dam at the head of his claim, Butcher’s Gully. Objected to by R Stancombe dh the ground that the dam would raise the water over his claim, and prevent him from working. E. Stancotnbo applied for a Three acre claim in Butcher’s Gully, also, for the right to construct a tail race, and a head race. The Wif Jen said, from what had fallen from the Applicants, it appeared that the applications were antagonistic, consequently he would defer judgment, till he visito 1 tbb ground, which would be ou Monday, the 21st instant. Several applications for protection for claims on the Butcher’s and Conroy’s reefs were dealt with, and the Court then adjourned.