HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 331, 19 June 1878, Page 2

HAWERA.

(from our own correspondent.) E.M. COURT.— Monday, June 17. (Before Captain Wilson, J.P., and J Livingstone, Esq., J.P.)

P. Conway v T. Owen, claim £7 for value of gold locket. Mr Roy appeared for the defence. Plaintiff stated that he had left llie locket in the charge of the deiendant’s barman, who, on leaving, had handed it over to defendant, whose nephew had taken it out of his room and lost it on his road to school. Defendant admitted that he had taken the locket, but that it had never been given into his charge. He had taken it out of the cash box and placed it in his own room for safer keeping. The plaintiff had offered him the locket for £2. ' Judgment for plaintiff for £2 and costs.

Lawrence Milmoe v Charles Reeombe. claim 8s for damage to window by a fowl of defendants. There, being no evidence to prove that, the fowl belonged to defendant, the case was dismissed with costs.

Same v Cornelias Casey, claim £2 12s for damage done to plaintiffs garden by defendant’s pigs. Evidence again being wanting to prove the ownership of the pigs, the case was dismissed with costs.