RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2053, 3 December 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day. (Before A.C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKARD. W. P. Wilson, for drunkenness, was sentenced to pay fine of 2i)s, or 43 hours’ imprisonment. Civil Cases. COLONIAL SERVA' TS. •Jones v. Abercrombie. —A claim for L 7 10s, coach fare and other expenses, and one month’s wages in lieu of notice ; Mr Ward fi.r the plaintiff, and Mr Bathgate ;nr the defence. There was also a cross-action, Abercrombie v. Jones. The two cases were heard together. Fr in the evidence it appeared that Mrs Frederick Jones, of Waikomdti, being in want of a laundress, instructions wore sent to Mrs Howard to engage a woman and her husband. bhe entered into an agreement with the defendant Abercrombie and his wife, whose expenses were paid to Waikouabi. On the’r arrival there, the lady bcoime frightened at the prospect of a week’s washing, and determined to leave at once. 1 his she did, dragging her husband after her. TJn-v worn met hy different servants while making their escape, who pointed out that it would have been better for them to have tied the place before deciding to leave. Mrs Abercrombie replied to one < f them “she did not like work ; she had not come out to here to work, and that there was an accumulation of washing too much for any woman to do.” It v/as proved that the cook volunteered her services, and finished the lot in two days. The case, on account of the absence of a witness, was adjourned for a fortnight. In the following cases judgment was given by default for the plaintiffs : —Oliver and Ulph v. Mardl ng, balance of account, L 9 16a lid. Thomas Holmes v. Richard Parker, L 3, being such portion of L 4 6s 61, a claim for board as the Court allowed. The difference was struck off under the provisions of the Tippling Act. NEGLECT TO SATISFY JUDGMENTS. In Porter v, Tweed, L 4 Is 101, aud Hutton v. Tweed, LS 17s 7d, applications were made for orders to compel immediate payment on judgments obtained. Orders were granted,—the defendant, in default to be imprisoned one month in the first case, and two months for the second.