RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, WAIPORI.
(Before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R.M.) Friday, September 13.
Ross v, Blackmoi-e.—Asßmlt. These were the disputants in the Warden's Court case. The plaintiff was a tall stalwart Highlaiidmau, charged the defendant—rather a diminutive specimen of an Englishman— with having put him in bodily fear, by shaking a hoe and brandishing an axe at him. It turned out that the quarrel originated touching a heap of potato parings which defendant placed on a roadway, and plaintiff sought to remove. Plaintiff exhibited an immense amount of verbal energy, describing very minutely every incident of the dispute, from Julie 24th to July 2nd, when the ferocious Englishman attacked him whilst shovelling away the paiings. The worthy Magistrate seemed quite exhausted by the recital, and exclaimed when the Highlander finished : " Well ! I may be wrong, but I do not think courts of justice were invented to settle such paltry disputes. Here are two full grown men, in the blaze of daylight squabbling over a heap of potato parings." Case dismissed.
M'Cay v. Martens.— A civil case for debt. Judgment for amount claimed. Same v. Che Di.—Deht. Settled out of Court.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 7
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189RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, WAIPORI. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 7
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