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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 139, 15 June 1868, Page 2

An error has been pointed oufc to us in the telegram which appeared in our issue of Saturday, relative to the murders near Katemarae, which we hasten to correct. It appears that it was Mr Booth, the Resident Magistrate at Patea, and nofc a Mr Bootle, who was warned off the Katemarae District by the Hau-haus.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Monday, June 15. (Before J. Poynter, Esq., R-M.) The following debt cases (Extended Jurisdiction) were heard this morning : — Lightfoofc v. Boseley. — This was an action to recover £30 17s. 2d., the balance of contract for building the Bay View Hotel at Wakapuaka, aud the case was adjourned for further evidence, the defendant alleging that the house was not built according to contract. Hale v. Mabille. — Action to recover £29, balance of au account atfd a dishonored promissory note. Judgment for the amount claimed. Rowlands v. Clarke. — This was an adjourned case from the 18th May last, for the production of ..a detailed statement of accounts between the parties, which was furnished by the plaintiff, and. judgment given for £44 15s. Id., being the amount claimed with costs. Jacks v. Hillier. — This was an action brought to recover the sum of £50, damages alleged to have been sustained by the non-fulfilment of an agreement for the purchase of a half-share in a claim on the Collingwood Goldfield. Mr Pitt, for the defendant, objected to the case being heard in this Court, on the ground that it had been already heard in the Warden's Court at Collingwood, in which his Worship concurred, and the case was struck off the list. Mr Kingdon appeared for the plaintiff. Freeth v. Fowler. — An action to recover £50, as damages for losses sustained by the plaintiff iv consequence of the nondelivery of 25 tons of cargo, by the plaintiff's steamship Wallaby, on her passage from Nelson to Westport. This case, on the application of Mr .KingdoD, was adjourned for oue montb. Thomas Wade, cabdriver, was charged by John Humphries, of Wakapuaka, with having stolen a pocketbook containing eight £l notes, on the evening of Saturday last. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor had been at the Coach and Horses ou the evening in question, where he had changed a cheque for £40, receiving in exchange^eight £1 and four half-sovereigns, which he put into his pocketbook, and deposited in his inside coat pocket. He then went with the prisoner to the Port, and on going home he missed his pocketbook. They had been in company together at the Pier Hotel, at an earlier hour, aud when they returned there, the prosecutor was drunk, and before he had been five minutes in the house he said he had lost his pocketbook, with a cheque for £40 in it, and left immediately. The pocketbook, which was identified by the prosecutor, was found yesterday morning in the closet of the Pier Hotel, with papers, but no money in it. The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next, bail being accepted for the prisoner, himself in £20, and two sureties in £10 each, to appear on that day. Mr Kingdon appeared for the prisoner.