RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT; LAWRENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 113, 7 April 1870, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT; LAWRENCE.

(Before W. L. Simpson, Esq., R.M., and H. Baslings, Esq., J.P. Thursday, March 31. Harris v. Gibbs.— Claim of £11 6s. 6d. Defendant did not appear. Judgment for amount claimed, with £1 11s. costs. Hay v. Donovan. — Claim of £5. The amount was paid into Court. Long v. Wootton.— Claim of £1 14s, Adjourned till Monday, the 4th April. Hall v. Keen for E. DeCarle.— Claim of £3 17s. 6d. Case withdrawn; the amount having been paid. Police v. All Ching. — Ah Ching, a Chinaman, was brought up, charged with having stolen a portion of a door valued at 20s. He was found guilty and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour in Lawrence gaol. Monday, April 4. (Before the same Magistrates.) Long v. Wootton.— Claim of £1 14s. for being detained in consequence of a summons to appear in this Court. Verdict for £1 and costs.

During the last thirty years the public debt of England has been almost stationary under various administtv - tions, while the country has been steadily increasing in wealth and powerto pay. During the past nine months the public debt of the United States, imposing as heavy a burden upon the* country in the s'nape of" taxes as is b^Tir by G-roar Britvn, has been do '■i' ' i'il by tho bin*' of ao'-T'lity-iivr