RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 227, 13 June 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, June 9.

(Before Dr Croft, J.P., and H. F. Christie, Esq., J.P.)

Horses Wandering at Large. —Sergt. Whelan v. Henry Mehelly. The sergeant stated that lie had frequently warned the defendant (who is Cobb & Co.’s groom, Carlyle) not to allow horses which he had in his charge to wander from the stables, but to no avail. The Bench fined defendant ss, and 6s 6d costs. —Same v. Robert Erskine, on a similar charge. After hearing defendant’s statement, the Bench let him off with a caution.

Monday, June 11. (Before C. A. Wray, Esq., E.M.)

Debt Cases. — Charles Edwards v. J. Johnson ; clajm, £l3; adjourned for a week ; summons not served. —J. Gibson v. J. McCoy ; claim, £2 16s lid ; no appearance of either party ; case struck out.—Thomas North v. Eanga Hai; claim, £2 10s ; judgment for plain tiff for amount and 9s costs. Tuesday, June 12. House Steading. —William Hammerton was charged with the above offence, it appeared- from the evidence that the

accused had sold a horse to Donald Dickie, fanner, Wairoa, on the 26th May last, for the sum of £9, the same to be paid over to Charles Edwards, hotelkeeper at Wairoa, in satisfaction of a claim for debt. The money was not to pass through accused’s hands. Hammerton subsequent!}' left Mr Dickie’s employ (where he was engaged at the time lie sold the horse), taking the horse with him. Mr Dickie then telegraphed to Wanganui to have Hammerton arrested for horse stealing; he was arrested at Waipawa, near Napier, and brought back. After the R.M. had carefully studied the evidence, judgment was given as follows ; —The evidence in this case is not sufficient to prove a prirna facia case, tbs horse not having passed from Hammerton’s possession. The case was more for a civil than a criminal action. The information was dismissed, and the accused discharged.