RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 300, 24 August 1865, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

(Before J. Curling, Esq., E. 11.)

FRIDAY, ISth AUGUST. Wheelan and Another c. Eobottom. — A claim of £24It appeared that the plaintiff Wheelan, who is a soldier in the 14th regiment, was employed by the defendant to excavate a certain amount of earth from one side of Shakes-peare-road, and convey it away, for the sum of £3O, which was paid on the completion of the contract, and a receipt given for the amount. Several months after the plaintiffs claimed in addition, which the defendantrefused to pay j and the present action was brought to recover the money. —Case dismissed. TUESDAY, 22nd AUGUST. Gill ». Becker. —A claim of £5 9s for goods supplied.— Judgment for amount claimed, and costs, El 6s. Marshalls. Parker. —A claim of £4 Is for board.—Settled out of court. Marshall «. Lanagan.—A claim of £lO 17s for goods supplied, Ac.—Judgment by default for amount claimed, and costs, 10s. Marshall r. Hatmes. —A claim of £5, disputed.—Judgment for amount claimed, and costs, 11s.

Sash-Wexghtb and Flops. —The Wellington correspondent of the New Zealander, under date August 11, Bays s—“ A disclosure was made by the Commissioner of Customs yesterday morning (10th August) which caused no little sensation among the members. It appears that during the latter part of the year 1863, the Poverty Hay traders became greatly in want of building materials, including a very unusual quantity of lead sashweights. These were supplied, of course, in as large a quantity as would amply supply the demand, but the circumstance excited suspicion; and a suggestion was made in a letter from Auckland to the Hawke’s Bay Herald (Times?) that an improper use was being made of these stores—in short, that an eminent Auckland firm was actually and knowingly supplying bullets to the rebels. As the same firm had before been supposed to have done a large trade in flour to the Thames, at a time when the natives of that district were acting as purveyors to the Waikato fighting men, the Government have made investigations, the result of which was elicited from Major Richardson yesterday, and, I must add, to the lasting disgrace of the Auckland mercantile community. The firm is known to every one of your readers, and the shame lies in the fact, that Captain Daldy was not only a leading man in public affairs generally in Auckland, but a member of the Assembly, a member of the Provincial Council, an active supporter of your religious institutions, and at the present moment represents your province in England. To what conclusic ,i can Southern members come to, but the one—that Auckland desires war only from the lowest mercenary motives by which men can possibly be actuated ?” A Native Stabbed bt a Native. —A native named Paorone was brought into the Police Station last evening by four other natives, charged with stabbing an Oraki native named Hemi. Both belong to the Oraki settlement. It appears that some quairel arose between the two men, and the weaker, the prisoner Paorone, seized a butcher’s knife and inflicted a very severe wound. It is stated that the prisoner is the brother of the chief Paul, and proprietor of the Victoria schooner. He was brought to the station by a native interpreter, and two other natives who witnessed the felonious act. The case will come before his Worship the Resident Magistrate this morning. From inquiries made late last night we learn that the wound iaflicted is of a dangerous character. —New Zealand Herald, August 18.