RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
(Before C. E. Wray, Esq., R.M.) Monday, May 21, 1877. Dividing Fence Thomas Harris v. Bremner Brat hers. Claim, £7 10s, being half cost of erecting fence between sections 207 and 208, Wairoa. Mr Adams appeared for the defendant. Plaintiff said he had been compelled to erect the fence to keep defendant’s cattle from wandering on his land. Defendant said he neither owned, nor had he a lease of the land for the fencing of which plaintiff sued him. He simply occupied it and had paid rates for two years, when asked by the Road Board.—Plaintiff being nnable to prove defendant’s claim to tho land, occupied by him, Mr Adams asked for a non-suit, which was granted, with costs, amounting to £3 3s.
Tuesday, May 22. Board and Lodging. Autridge v. Knowles. Claim, £ls 10s for board and lodgings from 23rd September, 1876, to 3rd January, 1877, and for odd meals up to March. Plaintiff said defondant had made no arrangement as to terras, and was therefore charged at the rate of 6s Gd per day. He was given to understand that defendant was earning from 15s to 20s per day. An arrangement had been made for one week’s board at the rate of 25s. —William Brown was called as a witness, to prove that defendant had acknowledged to owing money to the plaintiff. —George Knowles, who described himself as a carpenter, said he had been staying at Autridge"s for about throe weeks, and except paying two week’s board had spent all his money in drink, all wnich he had paid for. —J. Dickie, a settler at Wairoa, stated that defendant had boarded at his house from 17th February up to the present time, and it was a mystery to him if he could bo having meals both at the Hotel and at his (Mr Dickie’s) house. The R.M. pointed out that the evidence was of a contradictory nature, and went to show that defendant had been paying for board at two places at the Same time. The case was adjourned for a week, to enable other witnesses to be brought forward.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 221, 23 May 1877, Page 2
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