HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 389, 8 January 1879, Page 3

HAWERA.

(FP.O.U OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) It.M. COURT—-Monday, December 30. (Before C. A. Wray, Esq., U.M., and Capt. Wiisun, J.P.) Dingle Bros, v Kumwcra. Claim £lo value of a red and white bullock destroyed by defendant. Judgment by default lor amount claimed and costs. (Before Captain Wilson, J.P.) 'Tuesday, December 31. If. If. E. liorniman v Thomas Robson, for stealing clothes and jewellery to lue value of T7O, the property of prosecutor. If. ]f. 10. liorniman being sworn, deposed to having sent a box by Cobb 6c Co. s coach to Haw era, about September hist ; it was corded and locked, lie did not see cr hear anything more of the box until lie found it in the possession of the police. It was then open, lie identified a lot of clothes produced by the Sergeant of Police, a-» his property, and which weicintho box when first packed. Several articles were missing. He valued the content;; of the box at TA). Arthur Owen, sworn—l am proprietor of the Egmont Hotel. I remember the box produced in Court aniving by Cobb’s Coach about September last. It was at first placed in the office, and afterwards removed by prisoner, by my orders, to the hay ioft. *1 identity the ceothes produced, as the same found by the police. Several other witnesses were examined, whose evidence occupied the Court the whole day. One, \Yihiam Pitt, who was cook at the Egmont Hole), deposed to ii;* vi;iniU'iO iiiin il pi’Ddt/Jlfc previous to his leaving', of a quantity o*. clothes, wiiicii had since been identified by prosecutor as paid of his property lost from the box. Prisoner had also made a present of a pair of trousers to Jacob Meuii, of Hawcra, which had also been identified by prosecutor. Mrs Hell iff, laundress, proved to having washed a lot of clothes for prisoner, marked with prosecutor’s mime. Sergeant Cahill deposed to having found the box concealed under some hay in the loft, and also finding a lot of the property in a hag in an old privy on the premises. iTi.inncr, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial. [Being holiday times, we have omitted a number of cases of drunkenness, lor which the usual lines were inflicted. —Ed. Mail].