RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 232, 11 July 1872, Page 7

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, WAITAHUNA.

(Before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R.M.) Friday, sth July. W. A. Murray v. M. Stewart. — Action to recover £15 os., amount of dishonoured promissory note. Verdict by default for amount el -limed, with co.sts, amounting to 225., and professional fee of one guinea. Air. Copland fjr tlie plaintiff. Caro v. Yowigwii. — Claim of £4 4s. Gd. for medical attendance. Ddfendant paid t'L la. (Jd. into court, and disputed one item (three guineas) in the account. After lie ivin:* evidence on this point, his Wor■>hip g-ivc judgment f>«r the amount paid into court, rem irking th-it the plaintiff had not thr- shadow of a claim. Plaintiff: Wiil I not bo all j\ved costs I Magistrate : No ; the defendant had good grdunls for resisting the claim, therefore you will liave to pay the costs. . Judgment, which had been deferred from tiie 21 st nit , was delivered in the following Cti^es — Anderson v. Marshall. — Judgment f<«r plaintiff for £10 ss. (less £1 for miner's right supplied by defeniliint), with tl ss. costs, and one guinea professional fje. Tuscan v. Marsliall. — Judgment for £8 (less £1 for a miner's right supplied by defendant), with 19s. costs, and one guinea professional fee. Thompson v. MarsliaU. — Judgmgnt for £8 (less £1 for a miner's right, and £2 received on account), with 19s. costs, and one guinea professional fee.

A Southern paper advertises as follows: — " Wanted, at tins office, an able-bodied, hard-featured, bad-tem-pered, not-to-be-put-off and not-to-b'-backed-dmvn, freckle-faced young man fco collect forthis paper ; must furnish his own horse, saddle-bags, pistols, whisky", bowie-knife and cowhide. We will furnish the accounts. To such we promise constant and laborious employment." The handwriting of Horace Greeley is so extremely bad that the compositors employed upon the "New York Tribune' require an'" education" of some months they cm decipher it. Having occasion to discharge one of hi 3 employes, Horace wrotehim a letter of dismissal, sind some years afterwards, accidentally meeting his former assistant, who in the meantime had become the editor of a - flourishing newspaper out West, the great man inquired how he was getting on. " Very well, indeed — thanks to your letter of recommendation, Mr. Greeley," was the reply " lint I gave you no letter of recommendation," exclaimed the astonished cdi.tor of the " Tribune," " True," replied the other; "but you wrote me a le'tfcer of dismissal, and as it was. utterly impossible to decipher anything but the signature, it answered the purpose just as well."