RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 288, 9 December 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

ojTm7y;,i ; - - -Before- J.-Shakp, Esq , R.M. , : „ r -, f . ; , . , . ..., I -...-ti-'il . v ..* Tuesday, December 7. : J) ay man v. Nutt. -.''.• Action to recover £1 25., three . days' j&IK p'er-inibnthX.as fi£emann;jon j board the s.s. Beautiful Star. -~ ~- j Mr; W. Pitt appeared for the defendant. , '■ : ''rui";:. Plaiutiff-^stated-that he was engaged for no specified time at the rate of £11 per. mouth, and/that on being asked to j clean the engineer's boots he had left the s'bip. John Sihith)J?Qv being drunk and t\w -capablej-was-fiued-1-Os— and-costs.— < "Tilrner, '-charged with da-'. maging'V'beehive. Ie : P r .opeTty °* James Martin, *a ''Maori,' living "at Wakapuaka, was fined £2 and costs, and £1 compensa-?tipb-to complainant, or, in default, one month's- -imprisonment., . / ,; v Myers^aTid Cghen v. Smith and Cqrterl Claim v f<>r"f£6s%issr6d. for goods supplied.- >C'e\ *« !' ! "^- Mr. Kingddn^appearpd^or the plaintiffs, .Pitt % tH^defe^dau'ts. j il^ u^ "' The goods in this i -4 u stance, b ! eeii' J .supplied : .t0, ... Carter, who*' -is 'iiow- absent from the colony, and the defefrce^setiup bySmith was that he was not in partnership TT with CarteFbut only selling for him. '** 'Plaintiffs' were^'nohsurted' -with icosts, ,£3 35.. _. _. . ...„ r !- «J