RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3863, 12 July 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, July 12, (Before J. Bathgate, Eaq., E.M.)

CIVIL CABES. t Judgment was given by default for plaintiff in the following cases, with costs :—G. Hirsch v. Cecil Cook, 16s, for dyeing silk; W. K. Couzens v. Alex. Stewart, law clerk, LI, for money lent; John M'Lean v. Wm. FJeetham, LlB 8s Bd, for goods Bupplied; Dunedin Waterworks Company v. Jacob Woodlands, LI 15s, for water-rates; Patrick Lee v. F. Siedeberg, L2 16s, for cartage. John Logan v. Thomas M'Kay.—A fraud summons on a claim of LlO, beiug rent of a Government paddock. Mr Stout appeared fi>r the plaintiff.—Defendant deposed that when he rented the paddook he had a ;veral horses, including a raca-horse, and that with the exoop tion of a hack he had recently disposed of all his horseflesh. He could not state the amount of his receipts, but he might have got LIOO. —HiB Worship told defendant that the law of proceeding against debtors had greatly altered. Parties made a great mistake in keeping money, the property of their creditors, in their own possession. Defendant might have applied the money he had received from the sale of his horses in payment of the present claim. —Defendant complained that he had had a deal of trouble one way or another; whereupon Mr •Stout pointed out that plaintiff had been wi 1 ng to accept iOs pei week, but defendant wanted a twelvemonth to pay what he ought to have paid monthly.—An order was mudo for th» payment of 30s a mouth, from August 1 ; in default of any single payment defendant to be i imprisoned for thirty days. I