HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 14 August 1880, Page 3

HAWERA.

BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL, Friday Evening. The newly started Choral Society is stated to be getting on prosperously. The practices arc regularly attended by the members, numbering at present about 25, besides honorary members. They have decided to purchase a piano at once. I believe it has been definitely fixed that the hounds hunt here on Monday next, and of course sporting is all the go. No end of gentlemen who have followed the hounds in England—and who comes from the old country that has not ?—arc going to show the colonials how to take a fence in the same brilliant style that the colonials have shown the Englishmen how to play cricket or row an oar. Travelling between here and Now Plymouth is getting worse than it was a month ago. Mud and nothing but mud up to the horse’s belly has to be encountered, Most travellers prefer to walk rather than ride ; and to make matters worse the road between hero and Normanby is getting fearfully out of repair, simply through the red-tapeism of the County Council. Comparing the amount of money the Council has received in rates and subsidies from this riding with the amount, spent, it is simply disgraceful that such an important road should be allowed to be neglected for the want of some £3O or £4O on a legal quibble. The question that has often been asked is, Why do not our members call for a return of the rates collected in each riding, and the amount expended in the same ? It would at least bring before the public the injustice this part of the County labors under in being a minority in the Council. R.M. COURT. imi’OllE MU C. A. WUAY, U.M., AND CAPTAIN WILSON, J.P. Sergeant Ardern summoned William Vine for assaulting his wife, Ann VineAfter both sides had been heard, the Court said that it seemed that there was six of one and half-a-dezcn of the other, and bound them both over in the sum of £lO to keep the peace for six months. CIVIL CASES. •Howkc v. Symons, £2l ss. Judgment by default. Gibson v. Denham, £6 10s 4d. Adjourned to 9th September. Shcrrott v. Brightwcll. This was an interpleader arising out of the seizure of a horse under a judgment warrant of the Court. After hearing the arguments of counsel the Bench decided to award the amount, viz., £9 10s, to the defendant, without costs. Collins v. Guerin, £SO. This was a case somewhat similar to the last. It appears that there had been several transfers of horses, but the original owner had a bill of sale over them, and the action arose when Mr Guerin, the bailiff, seized one of these horses in the possession of Brightwcll, for a claim, Sherrett v. Brightwcll. After some discussion the plaintiff accepted a nonsuit, in order to bring the action in a different form.

McFarland v. Coakley, £4. Judgment by default, and costs. Ecclesficld v. Dalton, £5. Judgment by default, and costs. H.Hunt v. England, £ll 13s. Judgment for defendant, and costs. Bercaford v. Hawkin. Judgment by default, and costs. Hannah M. Lyttle applied for a protection order against her husband, John Lyttle, which was granted.