RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5635, 22 April 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, April 21 (Before T. A. Hansford, Esq., E.M.) DRUNKENNESS. ' Two inebriates were dealt with in the usual way. • - • - larceny. Annie Pieterson, a young servant girl, wag charged with stealing a purse containing £5 Is. 3d., the property of Bella Strang. The police stated that when* she was arrested she admitted having stolen the mpney. She was then charged with stealing the sum of £8 from a person named J. -Wilson. On the application of the police the accused was remanded until Friday, . .. WIPE DESERTION. William Lancaster, a clerk, was chargedwith deserting his wife at Christchurch. Prisoner stated that he had been trying to get employment in Wellington but could not succeed. He was remanded to Christchurch. - ■ - CIVIL CASES. -A . " In the following- cases judgment- was given for plaintiffs for the amounts claimed-and costs: —A. Locke v. O. Hickey,, claim- £2O ; E. Garnham v. Smith and another, claim £25 16s. "6dL; same v. Dr. Watts, claim £2 9s. 4d.; c! H. Williams v. Broadbent, claim £8 Bs.; W. H. Barnard f"Eri?aTis/cIMm S9Ts."6a.; ci

l> f .torn y. D. Bell, claim £1; mo v. W.-N. Jacob*, claim £4 Us. Cd.; name v. Eiigleinan, claim 11b, 6A; B. M. Lmvater v. J. Ohote, claim 18b, 4d.j J, Adam, v. XI, Bond, claim £ll. „ - ... J. W. Noman v. 0. W. Clayton.—Claim, £n 4m. fid. for work done. Plaintiff was npnBnited.

Knocker and another v. Zohrahand another —(Haim, £O6. M. Ollivier for plaiatiff, Ur. Bailor for defendant. Dr. Bailor contcndo 1 that bin Worship had no jurisdiction. Mr. Mansford considered that ho could not hear the case.