RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 October 1861, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

iUESDAY, IoTH OCTOBER. George Sinclair was charged with stealing, on the 14th instant, at Wahaparata. the sum of <£l 2s. Cd., the moneys of William Stewart, millwright. The prisoner admitted the theft, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Wednesday, IGtii October, Miller v. Av.sien. This was an action for the recovery of £7, passage money paid hy plaintiff’ to defendant, the master of the cutter Aqaila, for his passage from Auckland to Otago, and which he claimed to he repaid on the ground of unseaworthiness of the vessel in which he proposed to carry him. The plaintiff, in evidence, staled that he took his passage in Auckland by the cutter A (jui! a for Otago. She put in here; sustained damage. Went with othe v s and measured 17 inches of water in her. Told the cajitain there was some leak about Inn b. ws, when he said, “ Oh, that is not much.” The carpenter at work on her (Mc.lloberts) said she required the most part of a new bottom. No copper had been taken off her to see where the damage was. The other passengers corroborated' this evidence. The defendant deposed that the ship was in as good condition as when she left the docks. The injury had been only on one side. Fifty sheets of cupper had been taken off her, which were now lying on ihe beach. Had held a survey over her, and she was declared fit for sea. She made no more water than any vessel would do when newly launched. Captain Charlton had been called to survey the vessel, and said she appeared as seaworthy as any vessel he had seen. Case dismissed.