RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT CLYDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 471, 28 April 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT CLYDE.

Tuesday. Arrut. 25. (Before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R.M., and William Eraser, Esq., J.P.) Johnson v. Westwood. Claim for L 5, for four weeks labor, as driver of cart and ploughman. Mr. Wilson for plaintiff, Mr, Brough for defendant. Plaintiff deposed that he engaged with defendant at the rate of 255. per week, and that he was discharged by plaintiff. Defendant stated , that he engaged plaintiff at 20s. per weok, and that he (defendant) left his employ without giving notice. The Eesident Ma gistrata remarked that it was a case of oath against oath, and gave judgment for L 4, and costs. David Johnson was charged with embezzling the sum of LlO 14s. from Robert Westwood. Mr. Brough appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Wilson for the accused. Prosecutor deposed that, on the 30th March last, he gave accused a quantity of fruit, whichhe valued at L2510s to sell in Cromwell and Logan Town. He told accused to stay four or five days and gave him food fot himself and the horses for that time. Accused did not return for eleven days, and gave him only Ll2 Is. 3d. refusing to give any explanation of how he had cold the fruit. No other witnesses were called. Mr. Wilson considered he had no case to answer. The Bench dismissed the case. WARDEN'S COURT. (Before Mr. Warden Pylte.) James Connew was iharged with allowing eighteen head of cattle to run on Clyde Commonage, on the 22ml of March, without taking out a depasturing license. Defendant admitted that he had been running cattle on the commonage without a license, hut he had since paid the assessment for the past and ensuing six months. The Warden said that, if parties running stock upon the commonage neglected to pay their assessment, they were liable to a penalty of 10s. per head. He would dismiss the present case on defendant paying costs, 1 Is. The acijournen application of Messrs. M'Laren, Greig, and Co. for"an agricultural was then called on. Mr. Brough, for applicants, handed in a statement of the area of land held by them, namely, thirty acres. He suggested tbit the objection should be disposed of before proceeding further in the matter. Mr. Wilson said that, after the opinion expres=el by the Warden *on the last Court day that the objection was futile, he did not intend to proceed further. Mr. Brough applied for costs against the objector, as the objection put in was a frivolous one. The Warden considered the objection to be good and valid, and, although he did not agree with it, it was not frivolous. The applicants had been put to no expense : repeated adjournments had been rendered necessary through their own laches. He would grant a certificate for six hundred and ten acres. Mr. Brough said he would accept the certificate under protest, and pay rent for six hundred and forty acres. The Warden remarked that Mr. Harvey could receive rent only for the area the certificate was granted for- Mr. Brough said he would tender the rent for 640 acres and bring the matter before the Waste Lands Board. Applications.—Extended claims: Herbert Harding, two acres ; William Jamieson, one acre—granted. Head Races : George Morse, Morse's Gully, two sluice-heads ; Alexander M'Leod, Wai Keri Keri, one sluice-head—-granted. Protection : Frederick Whitaker, ninety days, claim atGreenPoint- granted. B <f|

The total number of farms in the UniteM State* is one million nine hundred and forty-r two thousand two hundred and forty-one. Rome, before its occupation by the Italians, had two newspapers. Now it has twenty. The North Pacific Railway, to connect the Eastern States with Puget Sound, is being rapidly pushed forward. The United States Government gave those constructing it fifty million acres of land. A railroad to cross the southern part of tho United States will be shortly commenced. The Rev. Albert Barnes, D.D. the well known commentator, has died suddenly, aged seventy-two years.