RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 834, 8 January 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

THIS DAY. {Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) larceny. Mary Allen was charged with stealing one gold ring, one shawl, three dresses, and other articles, valued together at 305., the property of Patrick Scott. Mary, the wife of Patrick Scott, sworn :—I met the prisoner in the Octagon about 2 o’clock last Friday afternoon, and accompanied her to her house. 1 had a large carpet bag and a bundle with me. Through being maltreated, I left the house and took shelter in the place adjoining, which was unoccupied, leaving my things iu her possession. I returned the next morning and asked for the things, but she refused to give them to me. Constable Sherar sworn :—From information I received from the last witness, I proceeded to the prisoner’s house, and observed that she wore a ring, which answered the description given by prosecutrix, and found the articles produced secreted under a bed. When arrested, she informed me that the prosecutrix gave her the ring to get some drink with. The prisoner, after making a rambling statement with reference to the manner in which she became possessed of the property, the circumstances connected therewith, were considered by the Magistrate to be most improbable ; was sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment. CIVIL CASES. C. H. Hardy v. E. Hooper. Claim of £9 19s. 6d., for medical attendance. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, and costs. Charles Cooper v. George Morral. Claim of £l3 for rent, &c. The claim consisted of two items, one of £5 for rent, the other £B, for loss sustained through non-fulfillment of an agreement by the defendant. The plaintiff’s case was, that the defendent entered into an agreement for the lease of a shop and bakehouse for six months, at a weekly rental of 255. After occuP3'ing the premises for about four weeks, the defendant left for Hokitika. Plaintiff then took possession of the premises, and re-let them at a reduced rental. The Magistrate informed the plaintiff, that by taking possession before expiration of the agreement, he forfeited all right to recover for the loss sustained by the defendant’s non-fulfilment of the agreement. Judgment was given for plaintiff in the sum of £5 and costs. W. G. Geddes v. John Mitchell, claim of £1 10s for cart hire. The defendant on the Ist of November hired from the plaintiff an Albert car and harness for the sum of 15s per week. He kept it for two weeks, and during that time effected some necessary repairs, for which the plaintiff allowed, and paid the 2s 6d balance, then due. After this settlement, the defendant kept it a week, when a fresh agreement was entered into by the parties under which the car was kept by the defendant for a week further, making two weeks for which the plaintiff had not received payment. The defendant swore that between the settlement for the first hire, and the making of the second agreement, he did not have the car in his possession, but that it remained in the plaintiff’s yard. Judgment was given for the plaintiff in the sum of 15s and costs.