RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 199, 26 August 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Gisborne, Friday, 21st August.

[Before W. K. Nesbitt, Esq.", R.M.J SULLIVAN V. CAMERON. ’

Claim £l9 3s 6d balance of wages. Defendant paid £9 19s into Court, after deducting £5 13s from plaintiffs wages in lieu of one month’s notice to leave. He accused plaintiff of having been drunk on several occasions, and caused him much loss and inconvenience iu being absent from work. Judgment for plaintiff £l7 17s 6d with costs. BOYLAN BROS., V. HYDE. Claim £l2 7s 2d for goods supplied. Judgment for plaintiff for £l2 5s lid. and costs. PARNELL V. HYDB. Claim £3 10s goods supplied. Judgment for amount and costs. bipebata kahutia and others V. STEVENSON, Plaintiffs claimed £5 as damages sustained by reason of the defendant having illegally removed certain wood or timber from their lands at the Waikanae. Riperata sworn, deposed to being part owner of the land in question. That she saw defendant last month carting away certain drift logs that had been deposited on the land above high water mark, and that she gave him notice, herself, not to take the firewood, but he persisted in doing so.

W. H. Tucker deposed to having published noticesin the Herald and Standard newspapers cautioning the public against removing the wood; also that the wood was lying above the ordinary tide marks.

For the defence Mr. Wilson put in the Harbor Regulations, 1868, to which Mr. Cuff objected on behalf of the plaintiff, as there was no evidence of the said Regulations having been gazetted. The Bench over-ruled the objection.

G. F. Harris Collector of Customs sworn, deposed to the beach between the Big river and the Waikanae being included in the Harbor and subject to the Harbor Regulations. Samuel Stevenson sworn, stated: That he took the wood in question from the beach at high water mark ; at high, tide the water runs over the wood. In answer to Mr. Cuff witness said the wood lie carted away was ordinary drift wood, and mostly saturated with water. J. Wyllie deposed that he had authorized the defendant, on behalf of his wife who was a co-claimant to the land, to take the wood away. The Court ruled chiefly on the evidence of this witness, on the grounds that defendant had obtained permission from one of the alleged owners of the land, and gave judgment for the defendant with costs. Mr. Cuff gave notice of appeal.

Tuesday, August 25. FELONY. To-day the Court was occupied in investigating a charge of felony against one William Blackman, for having stolen a horse the property of Alexander Blair. Alexander Blair deposed to having found one of his horses iu the possession of the prisoner, and as he could gi ve no

satisfactory proof of having, become lawfully possessed of the animal, he gave him into custody.

Thomas Kilburn deposed to meeting the prisoner on the 21st instant with a chestnut mare, which he identified as the one now in charge of the police) Prisoner said he had boughtit at Greene’s Sale for £5, and offered to sell it to witness for £4. Witness did not buy the horse.

George Williams deposed to similar testimony, prisoner telling .'him. (witness) that he got the horse from Mr. Bettington.

Prisoner was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, at Napier.