MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2419, 6 January 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBIBTOHUBOH. Thubbdat, January 5. (Before J. Beawiok, Esq., B.M.] Oiviii Gases.—Thompson v Sohoeneberg £5, claim for goods (pillows) made to order. Mr Stringer for plaintiff, Mr Salter for the defendant. The defendant admitted having ordered the goods, but plaintiff refused to deliver them at his shop. Defendant had been quite willing to pay for them if they had been delivered. In reply, plaintiff stated that it had been the custom in former dealings between the parties to give delivery at the manufactory. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs, and solicitor’s fee £1 Is.—Oorr v Simpson ; a claim for 10s, a week’s waget as domestic servant. Judgment for plaintiff, without costs. —Daniels v Bailey, claim £ll lls 6d for wages as a domestic servant, seventeen weeks and three days at £35 per annum. Defendant said the rate of wages he agreed to pay was £3O per annum ; he paid into Gout £9 13s 101, being what was due at that rate, less 10s cash paid to plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff for amount paid into Court, plaintiff to pay costs.—Barrett v Scott, £6 3s 6d, claim for asphalting garden paths, gardening, and for trees, An , supplied. Mr Holmes for plaintiff, Mr Joyce for defendant. The defendant alleged that the work had not been properly done. Experts for each side were hoard on this point, and judgment was finally given for plaintiff with costs and solicitor’s fee. A witness whose expenses were allowed handed the amount over for presentation to the Orphan Asylum..—Judgment went for plaintiffs by default in Bell vOassin, £l3 10s; Avon Boad Board v Tomes, £8 15s ; Duncan v Oassin, £4 8s 61; Wilkin and Go. v Lake, £2 4s 63 ; Hughes v Butler, 5b ; Walker, Smith and Go. v Durham, £6 Is 2d ; same v Pepper, £5 5s 7d ; Tudball, Ingle and Go. v Tasker, £1 Os 7d j and Oulliford v Tasker, £3 18a ; Dunn v Oassin, Mason, Struthers and Go. v Burnell, and Fuhrmann v Lewis were adjourned till January 12tb. Friday. January 6. ("Before J. Ollivier, 8.M., and B. Westerns, J.P.] Drunkenness. For a first offence a man was fined sj, and ordered to pay 2s oabhire. Neglecting to Suppobt a Wiyb.—Thos. Mitchell came up on information to answer B charge of having failed, to support (hip

1 wife. She now prayed for an order to compel him to afford her a sufficient maintenance. Bridget Mitchell deposed that her husband was a farmer residing near Bolleeton. Taey had been married eleven years. They had no children. He had for many years past treated her with the grossest brutality, and had finally, about six weeks ago, turned her out of his house and refused to receive her again. On December sth, he knocked her down, kicked her, and dragged her along by the hair, threw her over a fence, and told her not to return, or he would hang for her. She remained several hours in the rain, and then obtained shelter in a neighbor’s house. Her husband farmed 183 acres of land, of which half was freehold. He also had cattle and horses. John Ady, who had been employed by defendant, and had lived with him, deposed to his constant illtreatment of Mrs Mitchell. He corroborated her evidence as to the transaction of December sth. Thomas Clooney stated that on December sth he took Mrs Mitchell in. She had been in the rain and had scarcely any clothing on. Defendant, who behaved in Court in a very unbecoming manner, and was often reproved by the Magistrates, pleaded guilty to the charge. He said he was quite willing to give his wife a maintenance, he did not want her to live with him any longer. The Bench said that the evidence they had hoard showed that he had been guilty of a series of most unmanly outrages on the woman whom, of all others, he was bound to protect, she being all the while in delicate health. The order made would be—Defendant to pay to his wife £1 weekly, the first instalment to be paid forthwith, and to pay costs of Court, solicitor's fee and expenses of witnesses, in all £4 3s.

Larceny prom the Person.— A case of this nature against James and Zilphe Cross was adjourned till 2 30 p.m. on account of the absence of their solicitor.

LYTTELTON. Friday, January 6. [Before J, Beswick, Esq., B.M.] Breach op Customs Aot— William Henry Clark was charged with a breach of the Customs Regulation Aot by taking ashore four boxes of cheroots from the ship Phasis which had not paid duty. Defendant pleaded guilty, and stated that he was simply taking the cheroots from the ship to the s.s. Te Anau, to which steamer he belonged, and was unaware that he was doing wrong. The Bench said there was no other course but to impose a penalty of £l2. The defendant said he would pay the money. Tho cigars bad been given to him by a friend on board the Phasis ::or his own and his fellow shipmates’ use. Breach op Public house Ordinance.— Tho licensee of the Cambridge Hotel, Mr P. Barry, was charged with selling whisky after hours—namely, on Now Year’s morning, Sunday last. Mr H. N. Nalder appeared for tho defendant. A man employed at the graving dock works, named Hart, testified to having purchased a bottle of whiskey about two o’clock in the morning. The witness was not very clear as to what became of himself or the bottle of whiskey, but stated that he paid six shillings for the bottle, put it in bis pocket, and left tho hotel. Ho subsequently lost his watch, and went to the police office to report it, when, on being asked where he had been, he said he had bought a bottle of grog at the Cambridge Hotel. The witness, on being pressed, could not say more than that he thought it was two o’clock in tho morning. Evidence was given to show that the purchase, if made at all, was made before eleven o’clock. The Bench dismissed the case. Civil Oases. —Morling v Benner, claim £1 10a j Mr Nalder for plaintiff, Mr Joyce for defendant. The claim was brought on an order given by one of the crew of the Hannah Barrett on the master, Captain Benner. Mr Joyce objected that there was no stamp on the order, and asked for a nonsuit, which the Bench granted.