A RESIDENT MAGISTR TE

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 January 1890, Page 2

A RESIDENT MA GISTR TE

We are sorry to find that the Oo' vernment do not think that assistance \s needed toy our' Resident irate. Time will prove whether the applicants for another Magistrate are right, ors'the Go vetomeritf though we hold the experience of the November -arid* December ■ • sittings I showed that one gentleman could not get .through, the i work ; with satisfac-' tion and Justice to the public. A solicitor in commenting . upoti. , the block, drew, from M> Brabant the. statement that ho was primarily responsible for the civil busiess, and the Justices for the criminal portion. We objected to this theory, but allowed it to pass, believing that a block in the civil work was bound also to occur. The following, para s graph from the Wanganui Herald of? last Friday brings a case before the public. "George "I/yiicli was charged today with larcency as a bailee of t horse belonging to John' Love. The latter gave evidence that in 1885 he purchased a mare and gave it to 'Boss and Ohambervlain to break in for him, but she went lame and he turned her out. Lynch caifce to him and asked what he was going to do with her. Told him he had had her blistered, but Lynch said that ■&*% no good, Bx^t : if he would lend her to-' Mm «■ tie' would oufeT^'e* Agreed tp^end him themare, he (Love) to get her ,back when he wanted her. Some months after Lynoh told him she was '•* gtfand mare, and lots of : people admii"ed her, and asked what he would take for her. Told him £16 or £14. Lynch was working at a contract, and had the mare with him. He said she was better, but wanted some more work. Later on told him not to sell her. At this stage the Peach intimated that they thought this a aasG-that ought to be heard by the R.M., and n<it one that ought to" take up the time, of the Justices, going back as far as 1885, but ultimately they derided to go on, and the evidence was going on when we went to press?' Here we have on record that the .Justices who reside in the name town as the E, M. were called to hear a civil case and objected strongly to May. but ultimately decided to go op /A s long as Justices wi 1 conspnt'tq ; d.Q the work, it is only a question of now many of them'tlfere are and in how jaanv towns., . ithey k will act and then the.E, M. can of course do the rost. But this te not giving the public the^ advantage of haying their cases tried by a paid official, and to which, by the costs of court charged them, they are entitled'to. .