Magistrate's Court, Foxton.

Manawatu Herald, 13 March 1897, Page 2

Magistrate's Court, Foxton.

Thubspay, 11th March.

(Before A. Greenfield, Esq., S.M.)

Before the business of the Court commenced Mr Bay rose and addressed the new Stipendiary Magistrate as follows :— " May it please your Worship : As this is the first time of your appearing in this Court as the Stipendiary Magistrate for the district I desire, on behaif of the solicitors practising in this Court to extend to you a hearty welcome. I trust that the relations which will exist between the Bench and the Bar will be of the most friendly na ture, and lam sure that my brethren of the law and myself will be happy at all times to render you what help we can to secure a just administration in this Court of the laws of the Colony.

I feel a hesitancy in congratulating you upon your- appointment, beoause I oao quite understand tbit

it has not bean a pleasant thing for you to break up your home and remove from the district in which perhaps you hoped to remain longer ; but we will do what we can to render the change of districts to you as agreeable as circumstances will per* mit.

You are the third Stipendiary Magistrate who haß presided here during a period of a few weeks over two years. Such a rapid succession of new magistrates appears to us very much like a sort of panorama of Magistrates, but in these democratic times we must expect experiments and changes.

In England the County Court Judges deal with a class of civil cases very similar to those which come within the jurisdiction of Magistrate's Courts in this colony ; bnt in England a County Court Judge, as a rule, spends his whole judicial life in one district, and I think there are very considerable advantages to the .Judge and the suitor when a Magistrate remains a long time in one district I can only repeat that we will do what we can to render pleasant your stay in this district. The BM. replied : I thank you very much for your kind words. Wherever I have been stationed as a Magistrate I am glad to say very happy relation" have existed between myself and the lawyers practising b: foro me, and I doubt not that a similar pleasant feeling will exist be* tween the members of the Bar and myself in tbe district to which I have now been appointed. CIVIL. E. G. McDermott v. Wereta Pineaba. Claim, £2 Os 6d. Judgment for amount and costs, 269. A.. 8. Biss v. John Hayes. Claim, £1 Gs Bd. Judgment for amount and costs, 14s. D. Manson v. M. Liddell. Claim, &i is. Judgment for amount and costs, 6s.

PROHIBITION ORDER.

A prohibition order was granted against Annie Boesen, to apply to all licensed houses in Foxton.