BESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Southland Times, Issue 1698, 4 February 1873, Page 3

BESIDE NT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before H. M'Culloch, Esq., R.M.). i Friday, 31st January. Richard Ryan was charged bj the police, under the Neglected and Criminal Children Act, 186T, with neglecting to contribute towards the maintenance of hia two children. Albert and Bertha Ryan, now in the industrial school at Carersham. Ho waa ordered to pay 5s per week for each child. MONDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY. Thomat Allan was charged by the police with stabbing Constable Geerin. It appeared from the evidence of Bevis W. Carter, night watchman at the railway station, that he had assisted Con- | stable Geerin to secure the prisoner, who was making a disturbance opposite the station on J Saturday night, an I savr that the constable had i been stabbed in the arm. Sub-Inspector Fox '" asked for a remand for eight dajs to adroit 01 1 the constable's recovery to give eriJeace. The J romand was granted. I

Brogden and Son* v. Munsie. — This was an action on a promissory note to recover the sum of £21 ss, amount of passage money and cost of clothinp, &c, advance! by plaintiff* to defendant. Mr Wade for plaintiffs. Defendant, who was unable to read or write, conducted his own case. The signature to the promissory note was admitted, but defendant pleaded a condition in a printed form, which h« produced as an agreement made at the same time as the note, and Messrs Broaden and Sons were bound to furnish him with work at 5s per diem for two years, which they had refused to do. It appearpd from his evidence that he had applied to Mr Walkden, Mr Brogden's agent, for employment, who directed him to go to the sub-c^n-tractors, who would provide him with work. This he had refused to do. He had been earning money on his own account sinc<*, sometimes 10s per day, but not, he stated, 5* a day on the aventge. Mr Walkden'a evidence was that the subcontractors were giving 6a, 7s, and 8s per day, according to the ability of the men, and that they would pay these newly.arrired immigrants at the same rate. Ilia Worship said he> would reserve judgment, at there were three other cases set down for hearing oa Tuesday (this day).

. The Vienna Exhibition. — The machinery department in the Vienna Exhibition will be a mile in length. Masonic. — The acting Commissioner of patents, England, has decided that Masonic symbols cannot be used as trade marks. The Presidential Election in Amekica. — The New York Herald's election estimates give Grant 28 states and Greeley 8, or 268 electoral votes to 90 for Greeley. The popular majorityfor Grant is 350,000. The Herald editorially says that whether the result will be accounted for by the popular strength of Grant on the one hand, or the weakness of Greeley and the feebleness of the Liberal Republicans combined with the Democratic bolt on the other hand, it is in many respects the most remarkable of any Presidential election in the history of the country