MAGISTEATES' COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 191, 12 August 1880, Page 2

MAGISTEATES' COURT.

YESTERDAY. [Before O. Curtis, A. Jones, and W. Oldham, Esqs., J. J.P;] i John Stone was charged by Henry Harris I with using insulting languago in Bridgestreet. After hearing the evidence the Bench dismissed the case witb costs _Sl 10s. Mr Bunny appeared for the complainant, and Mr Fell for the defendant. Anaos Harling was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a cab, and fined 5s and costs. Henry Clouston and Henry Dwyer were fined in the usual amount for allowing horses to stray in tho streets. Fell v. J. Darby.— Action to recover £8 ss, balance of amount due for rent. Judgment for amount claimed and costs. Harris v. Scott.— This was an action to recover £2 10s for board and extras for George Dunn, tbe mate of the Chaudiere, the account being one tbat Captain Scott, the defendant, had promised to pay. Defendant did not appear, but service of summons having been proved, judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed and £1 8s costs. Mr Moore appeared for the plaintiff. [The foregoing was crowded .out of yesterday's issue.] THIS DAY. [Before J. R. Dodson and H. Buckeridge, Esqs., J.J P.] Walter Smith was charged with larceny as a bailee of a gold watch, lhe property of George Edwards, a blacksmith residing at Foxhill. Mr Bunny appeared for the defence. v George Edwards stated that about the 14th or 15 tb June last he took the gold watch (vow produced by the police) to the accused to be repaired. It was to be sent to him at Foxhill, but had not a-rrived when he started for the Amuri some days later. He returned iv five or six weeks, and the watch had not then been sent, so he wrote to Smith, bnt receiving no answer, he came to town, and found that Smith had left Nelson. He spoke to his partner, but did not get tho watch. The accused was to have sent hiai the watch he had left qr another, about which they had some talk, and £4. Cross-examined by Mr Bunny: Could not swear tbat he had not asked the prisoner to find a purchaser for the watch. Smith was to send him out his own watch or another. P. J. Feeney, photographer, stated that he had bought tho watch produced from the prisoner. ' Sergeant Nash had traced the watch to Feeney, and had obtained it from him. This was the case for the prosecution. For the defence, Mr Bunny called William Georgo Jago, who stated that he had been in partnership with Smith. The prosecutor came to the sbop in April and bought a watch. He brought it back afterwards to be repaired, and said it had not been a satisfactory article, and he would like to sell it, and asked Smith if he could find a purchaser. Smith said he would try. Edwards then left the watch for that purpose. He heard nothing about Edwards getting another watch. Smith offered it for sale quite openly, when there was more than one person in the shop. Mr Bunny having addressed the Bench for the defence, the case,- was dismissed.