Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1467, 29 October 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1872.

Jn the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning one Maori drunkard was dismissed with a caution. Roera v. Manej.—Claim of .£2O, value of a pony sold under a wrong description at a recent pound sale. It appeared that the animal was branded ROE, but the brand being quite illegible at the time it was impounded, it was advertised as being " like MOH conjoined." The horse had since lost his winter coat, the brand was now legible, but the letters were most barbarously designed, and the brand was smudged. Judgment was given for the delivery of the horse, not on the ground that it had fceen wrongly described; but because the poundkeeper had failed to comply with one of the provisions oi the Im pounding Act, which requires the person impounding any animals to sign a despription of the same.

At the Auckland Police Court, on the 22nd insL, Q. B. Black, cook on Ijoard the s.s. Star of the South, was charged with having stolen the sum of £7, "the property of Gf. H. Johnson, steward on board the same vessel. The fiise was remanded for eight days.

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