SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 23, 24 December 1883, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(by telegbaph.) j (united press association.) Gkbornb, December 21. The sittings of the Supreme Court here have lasted a fortnight. To-mor-row the Chief Justice returns to Wellington. Of twenty-three civil cases only two were tried by juries, and those were special juries, all, the other parties electing to have rtheir actions heard by the Judge alone.' One case, m which the amount m dispute was £40, the Chief Justice said it was a tmmpery case that would hare been settled m the lower Court m a quarter of an hour, tlioiigh it occupied the Supreme Court two days. In another case the Judge advised the parties to confer for a quarter of an hour, as the weather was too hot to fight about nothing. An agreement was arrived at after a. few minutes' conference. In the action Maude v. Rees, the plaintiff was awarded £780 for wrongful occupation of premises by Rees. In an action by a native to recover £120 lrom E. F.P. "Ward, junior solicitor, the Chief Justice gave judgment for the defendant, but refused .to allow costs. In an aciion brought by some natives against tho Native Land Company to set aside a deed obtained by alleged fraud: and: false; representations, the jury answered all tho issues m favor of the company, and ;the Court will give judgment to-morrow.