HYDE.—July 8.

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HYDE.—JuIy 8.

Resident MagistbatbVCoubt. (Before H. A. Stratford, Esq., S. fli.) . James Mann v. Will Priee.--Suit for £3. Damages sustained through the driVing of a cow, and loss of time mgfor her. The plaintiff said that he had been for two days searching for his cow, and that at about 10 o'clock on the second day discovered her in a mob of about forty head, which were being driven oy the defendant Price down towards Mardhng's Ferry, and that about half past elereu observed the defendant driving the mob across the Taieri. For the defence, Price stated that on the morning in question he found a mob of cattle in his paddocks, and that plaintiff's cow might have been among them. He drove the cattle across the ferry, because they had been continually trespassing upon his land. He used a stockwhip, and drove them with a dog, but did not injure the beasts. Case dismissed. The Queen, by John Laverty, v. Thomas Stanley.—For wilfully and malicously impounding certain cattle. The prosecutor, having no evidence to before the Court, did not press the charge, and the information was. dismissed.