RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 56, 8 October 1864, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thtjbsdat 6xh. Octobee, 1864. (Before H. M'Culloch, Esq. R. M.) Omi. Cases. SATTNDEXS AND CO. V. BAKES. Claim for £2 Bs. 5d., for goods sold. Verdict for amount, with costs. The Court then rose. • — — — . Feiday, 7th Octobeb. John Clement, for drunkenness, was fined 5i. , Fine paid. J CrvrL Cases.. FBEEMAST V. HAMXLTON AKD JOKES. Mr. Button appeared for the defendants. This was a claim for. £9 10s., for goods supphed. • '*" - The defence was that- Jones had nothing -whatever to do with the debt, not being- in partnership with the other defendant as" alleged,' and. that as regards Hamilton, he admitted the greater part of the items in the account as .correct, but denied a good many also* ' -* ; -- 1 After a considerable amount of\conflicting cvi« dence, several items marked " r gpods,"weredeleted, plaintiff admitting them to stand ; for- " grog." Judgment for £7 4s. 6d., with costs.; The Court then rose. -;, - : ...,..;-,....,....- The Auckland Weekly News of-the l7th septem . ber says :— "Several repdrts.have been gonig aboufc with respect to the escaped-Maoris, put'nothing i«-;^> positively known of their moyement3 ;ye>fc.. .Ther* can be no doubt, however, that " they Jh&ve not crossed the Manukau Heads, as a gentleman, who came from Waiuku yesterday, reportedjthatnothing had been seen of them in that directibri.*. Tbey have teen seen on the' Kaipara, somewhere near Port-Albert, and it is believed that they are -scat- - tered about. When', the 'Miranda) went down to ftie Kawau, Mr. John White, accompanied by To v Qriori, one of the prisoners on parole,^landed. at r Matakana,' for the purpose^ of flowing the fugi-; 6ves • Te Orirbri expressing a ; beheftHat he would b|e able to induce them to retiim^ ' it'iirnbt very likely, however^ Aihel wiEHie ;iahlei^toFao :fio j and will-bo the upshot of the affair it is hajd^tp ; wy. ,r ~~V i Yy J_. yJ-i>J'-.4