RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4070, 13 March 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

'* i Monday, March 13; . : (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., !; j -$■ Chiaroni v. King,—ln this. case, Jhearlrlßßt week, 1 an action torecoverthe "value of t?vo miirors, wh>ch were bfpught.to, t/whbydlfighdaht in the lighter Aggies/haVtW been Unshipped from the ship Olivei bis warship noW delivered judgment; sayiog that [haylßg Jnspei tad the case and found eomaportiorilof it damaged, whileevidenfce had been adduced that when the case was delivered to defetyfont it was in good- order, and that ou.arrivid in Dunedin it was found to be btOtifc'&flhiSd that the breakage had occurred inthe amgs. Judgment waVgiven for plaintiff-for l Ll6wrth 00-ts. - Mr Harris, who appeared for -defended, gave notice of appeal ' .. Cayersham Hoad Board v. Nicholas Malbhey —Claim of L 7, for rates due .from June $, 1875, to June 2,1876. Mr Stewa’t apbekfed tor plaintiffs,, and: Mr Stoat d^fpndeq,—Mr Stout objected to Mr t-tewiart apfcarinpufap. but prbdncihghis appointment by theßoard. The Board. bemg could- only instruct' its attorney und, f seal. ' The 'Chairman of the Board hereuoondirew up an instruction to Mr Stewart to act on behalf ct the Board.—Bin Worship admitted Mr Stewart ithe authority, ; BoardVasnction but took a note of: MrßUSpt’g objection. ; John Cameron, ; Cletk to the Board, proved that defendant owed, L 7 ks fates - —L6 on his. hotiand Llona stotti"r-MV Stoat moved that Plaintiffs must be nonsuited,/ The time when- the rates were jnade had not been piovedi The Board could otdyrecovef [under seel i n 168 for! rates that' hadvbeen; -thrte noontHs ,due. ; So far as; thp rate-boefcjpvas Concerned the * Ordinance, had nbt'lwien complied with inasmuch as the heading 'was not set out. Jt had, not been proved whether the rate was a general of special rate. If a general rat jit pn'y could be levied, on district or main roads r_.it special, oh roads, within a subdivision. He lusher argued th it the Board’sipower- to the creation of into a ty. in December Ja<t,e--Hii Worship reserved hiscecisibh oniriie law* points for a mying that, ai -as he was .at present adviflea,;he thought the ralebook was defective, in so far as the.raptmh was concerned. ’ v • Tr :

in the following, cases judgment'wss given for plaintiffs by default with "costs :—Youw; v, Blackman, i 8, for a silk M'Lean y. J. Thompson, L 9, ibr work* ami labor done; Anders m and Co. y. Bell, Life Is M, for- wo k -and labor, done.; M'Phe;son v. G-billigan, LA for board nttd lodging; Batterson v. Bees, L 4 2s, on an 10 JJ, : ? f