RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.—GISBORNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1229, 20 December 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.—GISBORNE.

♦- I Yesterday, } ["Before M. Price, Esq., R.M.] Cross-examination of Mita by prisoner continued—l gave you money yesterday morning when I went to the J did not see you wearing neckties. The prisoner here wanted ca ll a child named Rangiora, who, howr u a -lsij tender year) and is a™/aVßwheta She then called George Rob’ The Bench, alter, ' siting some time for the attendance of last-named witness, who had not been, gubpmned or asked to at* tend, and finding that } ie cou jj Jlo t he g O t i this afternoon adjourned the Court until to* i morrow day.) This all the business, This Day, LARCENY, Katarina Tapeka was placed in the dock, having asked yesterday to call George Robinson, who deposed—l have a heck-tie the accused gave me, She told me she got it at E. K. Brown’s. His Worship committed the offender to two months in Napier gaol. DRUNKENNESS. Tamate Turi was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment. Michael Barrett was charged with having been disorderly whilst drunk in Gladstone Road. Fined 20s and costs or 48 hours’. DESTROYING PUBLIC PROPERTY. The same prisoner was charged with destrying a bucket in the gaol, and was fined 20s and costs, and also to pay 5s 6d for the bucket. FIGHTING. Samuel Phillips failed to appear to answer a charge of fighting, and a warrant was ordered to issue. ALLEGED LARCENY OF A HORSE, Rawiri Karaha was charged with the larceny as a bailee of a black gelding, the property of Michael Mullooly, and wrongfully converting the same to his own use by selling it to Mr S. M. Wilson. Michael Mullooly deposed that about June last he lent the accused a horse branded on the near shoulder. The horse was worth £25. The accused was never authorised to sell the horse. I saw the horse in Wilson’s stable yesterday. It has now another brand —Mr S. M. Wilson’s. Witness believed Mr Wilson informed witness that he had purchased the horse from accused. To prisoner—You did not buy the horse from me on credit. You did not make out a promissory note when you received the horse. The accused cross-examined the witness at considerable length, endeavoring to show there had been a sale. The witness explained that about a year ago he had agreed to sell the horse. Subsequently he took the horse back as there was no money forthcoming. This would be in April. In June last prisoner wanted the horse for ploughing, and witness lent it to him for that purpose. The cross-examination of this witness lasted a considerable time. On the application of Sergeant Bullen, the prisoner was remanded for eight days. FIGHTING. Samuel Phillips was charged with fighting at Makaraka on the 20th of November, and on pleading guilty, was fined 20s and costs.