RESIDENT MAGISTBATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 50, 21 June 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTBATE'S COURT.

■ ■ ■ ; • : ■■■ • 'f : »;... ":": ■-• ' ■ . •„.■; FEILi>IN» v 7 v Ikdjat, Jokb 2)Trt!W< , : iTßtfoMß.Ward, Esq., R.M; l '»rid A. R, , -.* i H»lcomb«, Esq:, J.F.] . Hi» Worship ojr taking his seat on tb# Benoh mid that before proceeding- to business h» wUli«cl to t»y » few wordij It ■£ • £ord«d him great pleasure to hold h.is coxirt tha* d»J.. It WMnpwr.twely* m»nth* oinat a court had been held m Pfiiaing. "H« wished to .tender hi* thatiks to Mr. H*lr combe for giring the use of -the Immigration Harraoks during the -period m trllich court* had been held m Feilding. /But '^for t\uA % hetWaught it prohable thej would haT^ -, had no court-Houte at ;th» preii*Brt' -*iin«i ;•?. He cqxxgratulattd th» ptoplt -of Vm^da§l

%n ooiMiiimf sttoli a eourt-houw, which h« SS.r«SU b«ttoi4han thrtai Marten, mi. tb»k wis sayint a frmt detl -v In d». posinir of ow« Wtafßgat b»f or» aim, h« had born* iß««nithat •quity was. true law, an/1 he h^ invttwbly giro* ht« d*sifions on fTttat hrcomidnrtd was th* equity if the om*. Tier* was vt*y few Uchni"'t^UliM of tow likely to occur » that court, »nd he should •>« fiv« hit decwioiw ©atli« ground ' $i eqiiity. •'., <ppr ib cm*; ■' '• ■-■ . ; ■-.: Th»r» was sevenl d#bt casts, but they war* either MtdAd: 'out of, or paid into, court, or there wa« no proof of strtto* of •mounoßs. '•.'•• : -^- : ;..'"-•■•■*..• ;.- ; :- . ■ . •;•.•.■■..• ArrriciTroM. ; - _ B«id v.B«lk.— ln this eate, tfr. W»r%urton, wbo>ppMi«d for tb* plaintiff. »p-----plied for Imt*>uiu« t lummom tind«* the 98th CUum of the Residrat Magistrate's - Act, and b«nd#d"iaa^ certifieali of aUintiiTs till* to thi land io^ispni*. „ I>ea.v*;inw fnntod. - ■■;■'- '. - - -'■ -. J. Robinson ■- apnlMd Tot * tummons •gainst his wife fdr;d«iei!tiiif h«r children. ¥«•• Haleombe «Uttd that ;;tb» wm* application h»d b«en mad* to him and ht wd i»fni*d it, on the pound that while Sbbinson was away lh» ..children had been .; «ai»d for, but when h# was at home th«r« was nothing but quarrelling. . : 'HU Worship- NfineU to 'grant the apphV ; «ation. Ha dii not think r jt right for a, hosband to bring «ach a «h«rge against his! '' f wife. - • »B«ACK O» TH» »AItWIT iTB-LAWS. Two inforaut otts, laid by Con<itab'(B Pric* for brMbhcs of the Railways By*-Laws, m «ntering and leaving respectively, a train, were heard. ' x His Worship ia th* first caw taid that the defendant had kid < himself opeft to a penalty of £10. Mr. Kirton, the station-master, said that at did not wish to)pr*Bs for*a heavy penalty. E* had BMMIy brought the case forward as V warning to othcri. His Worship infliottd a fine of £l and costs m tach case, and remarked that should *nj cases of a similar nature be brought Wort him, h* should- inflict a much heavier ****** — — _.