RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 August 1864, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wednesday, 3bd August, 1864. (Before M. Price, Esq., R.M.) One drunkard was fined ss. Joseph Beade was informed against by his wife, for having threatened to take her life on the Ist inst., upon which she sought that he should be bound over to keep the peace on his own recognizances. The husband complained that his wife was keeping company with some drunken women, and he thought ifc hard that he couldn't be allowed to keep the " upper hand " of her. He thought a husband should be the master, aud his orders obeyed by the wife. The Magistrate informed him thafc he must not, hi the exercise of his 'duties as a husband, threaten, to take his wife's life; and accordingly bound him over, in his own j recognizances, to 'keep the peace for the period of six imonths. Civil Cases. beaven v. von hammeb. Clfcim for £20 65., fpr goods sold and delivered to the Rose' of , Denmark Hotel, in 1863. Mr S. M.' South appeared for the plaintiff; defendant, in person. Mr. South explained that the defendant, in July, 1863, executed . an assignment of his estate to trustees for behoof of his creditors. Ifc had transpired in evidence in another Court that ho had property outside/of said assignment, and this action was now /brought, and the plaintiff now sought to recover the balance of Ins claim againsfc the; defendant. Mr. Von Hammer deposed that the assignment contained a list of all the property he was possessed of when made. I made a claim on account of my wife, for twenty acres of land, the Rose of Denmark Hotel, a hut, some cattle, and the horse r " Jack." In June, 1863, I. took possession of the paddock ; aud in December, 1863, the hotel. Mr. Price said ho would require to take the case into consideration. Ifc appeared to him that the whole; turned upon a point of. law, and also that it appeared from the assignment that 'the most equitable way of disposing of the property, if it belonged to the defendant at.. the date of the assignment, should be equally divided amongst the creditors. However, he would require to consider -the base before giving judgment, and accordingly adjourned the case till to-morrow (Friday) morning. CbLLiirs v. Von Hammer. — This was a similar action, and was to be decided hi the same manner. HBWITT.A.ND CO. V. CONNELL AND HaOG-ABT. — Claim for £13 ss. for goods sold and delivered. No defence. '• Verdict for amount. Kavanagh v. G. Bbown. — Claim for £20 for money lent. No defence. Verdict for amount. ' .Frasee v. Ougkhton. — Thfs was an action for wages as a saw-miller. The defendant denied the debt, inasmuch as fche wages wiro overcharged, and the overtime charged was abo wrong. Tho wageß charged were 14s. per diem, and tho wages agreed to be paid by defendant were 12s. a dajr. The ' Bench found plaintiff entitled to 12s. per day and 'overtime as charged. The set-off for board and lodging, at the rate of 24a. por week, was allowed. •Mobtiock and Wild v. P. Hii*. — Claim for £12 18s. on a promissory note. No defbnee. Verdict for amount.- . '•i -'

'-„ MOFFATiyisKD NEWTON; Y.BQWE.-rOlftimfo Jwork and labor done, fen* making a crossing oppo -site Pickford and Col's premises* Dee-street. Tb case .-was, adjourned till to-day for further cvi = dence. V! V • ' X ■-.'■'. / After a few more -unimportant cmsesweue heard the Court adjourned, „',., ".' ' .', IT****** - *