RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 89, 13 February 1847, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, 6th Fr.jmuAßY, 1817. WILLRON Y. HHIIUATA. This case, postponed from Hie day hcforc, came on for hearing this morning, .and, after hearing additional evidence, the Court gave judgment for complainant, full amount and costs. MAHU Y. HP. THtCTIRY. Complainant, a Native, claimed the balance of the price of a cap, sold to defendant for 10s., about three years since. Judgment for complainant 45., and Cs costs.

Tuesday, 9tii February. KOURU «. CIIISHOIjM. Complainant claimed the sum of jC4, as being the balance of JE6 due for 12 weeks' wages at 10s. a week. Judgment for plaintiff.

Thursday, 11th Fcbruahy. jjennessy v. hcmt and peuimana. This claim was for the sum of £1 19s. lid. Judgment for the complainant, the amount to be paid by the defendants (Natives) by weekly instalments of Bs. GtlEIiN Y. PEMIHAMINT. Claim £l Os. 7d. ; defendant confessed judgment ; same v. Shaka, for 7s, 4'£d., defendant confessed judgment j same v. Irehia, for 175., defendaut confessed judgment.

Friday, February 12. William Johnson was charged, upon the information of George E. Head, with stealing on Thuchday last, from informant's dwelling house, near the Roman Catholic Chapel, 27 sovereigns, jCI3 in silver, a promissory note for £50, and two £30 hills. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that the prisoner came to Ills house on Monday night last, in company with a man named Baker ; that while Baker and the prosecutor were transacting homo business, the piibonur was standing by the front window. After the prisoner and Baker had gone away, prosecutor discovered that the nails which fastened the window had been removed while prisoner stood near it; and no one but the prisoner could have removed thorn. The prosecutor left hia house on Thursday, about 11 o'clock, and saw his money in the box a quarter of an hour before he left it. About an hour afterwards he was informed by his servant that his house had been robbed, having been entered by the front window. He returned to his house and found his box, which contained his money and clothes, had been broken open, and the above money and notes, abstracted f> pm it. Some of the sovereigns he had marked— one of them with a file on the George and Dragon side of the coin. When the prosecutor went out, the window was not fastened, it was only closed; he had not fastened the windows after the nails were taken away. Sergeant Schultz, of the armed Police, stated, that he apprehended the prisoner a short time afterwards, in the housu of one Thomas Smith ; and having searched him, he found on his person 14 sovereigns and £d] os. 4d. in silver. The money was loose in the prisoner's pocket, and, upon witness examining it, he noticed one of the sovereigns had a peculiar mark, made with a file, upon the edge of it. He produced the money in Court, and the sovereign was identified. Prisoner was remanded till Saturday. Kouru, a native, was charged by Mr. Adam Chisholm, with having stolen from his premises an umbrella and some shot. The prisoner acknowledged to have taken the shot, but denied stealing the umbrella, and he was remanded till Saturday, for further evidence.

, In the Act, passed this session of Parliament, to amend the Act regulating the sale of Waste Lands in the Australian coloniei, New Zealand is»i>ecintly exceptcil from id operation.