THE COURTS. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, LAWRENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 261, 30 January 1873, Page 8

THE COURTS. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, LAWRENCE.

(Before Vinceut Pyke, Fsq., R>M.) Friday, January 24. Kemp v. Brnoi.— Claim of £3 55., for service of an entire. Plainoiff said he contracted with defendant for the service ; but it was not performed, because defendant failed to bring the mare. A Witness named Robert Ferguson was called, who had evidently been fortifying himself for the occasion at various establishments of public resorts On entering tlie boX, here marked confidentially to Hia Worship that "he was all right.* His Worship seemed to entertain a different opinion, and ordered Ferguson to leave the box and sit down, telling the constable to keep him in charge till the Court business was concluded. Ferguson obeyed the mandate with stme reluchince—reiterating, as he sat down, that " he was all vight." Plaintiff called no further evidence. The facts were not disputed ; but Mr. Mouat pointed out that plaintiff's proper course was to bri lg an action for breach of contoact, and that he must therefore be nonsuited. His Worship agreed with Mr. Mouat, and nonsuited plaintiff, with costs. At the rising of the Court, the witness -Ferguson was brought up, and committed to gaol for twenty-four hours. M'Beathv. fj arris.— Claim of £2 6s. <kU Judgment by default for amount claimed with costs 9s. Bushell v. Kelly.— Claim of £1 10s. od., for damage done to fence and crop by goats. After evidence had been taken, His Worship intimated he would visit the plaintiff's premises, to personally inspect the alleged damage. Judgment would be given after he had done so.

(Before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R.M.) Tuesday, Jan. 27. John Gately, the Ltd who stole a sovereign from Mr. M'Kiaimie, and who had been remanded several times, was placed in the dock. His Worship said that he had resolved hot to subject him ("the child) to the contact of the maturer ruffians in Dunedin Gaol. As it appeared he could not be received into the Industrial school, and as he had already been in gaol more than a fortnight here, he would sentence him lo fourteen days imprisonment, and to be once privately whipped. [This announcement caused the juvenile culprit to exhibit signs of uneasiness.] He trusted he would employ the interval in Studying the advantages of honesty. His late employer, Mr. M'Kimmie, with kindness of heart which did him credit, had consented to give him a-iother trial on his release from imj risonment. Inspector Thompson stated that the prisoner had expressed his regret at having pleaded guilty. His Worship said he would rather that he had expressed his regret for the offence. John Cooper for allowing his horse to Wander in the streets, was fined ss. and 6s. 6i|. costs. Jau^es Darton for leaving his horae and diay unprotected, was fined 10s. and 16s. 6d .costs. White v. Fitzgerald. -Claim of £4 6s. Id. £3*103. 2d. was paid into Court. Judgment was given for ?s. 6d., in addition to the amount paid into Conrt, With costs of Court,, 10s. Halley v. Sproule.— Claim of £2 16s 6d. Judgment by default for amount claimed, witli 9&. costs.

At the celebration of the second anniversary of the establishment of the Mosgiel "Woollen Factory, fa couple of sprightly old fossil* — one the honorable Speaker of the Provincial Council, and the other the Hey. Mr. Will — sntertained the company by Sneering at " the boasted enterprise " of the *'NeVf Iniquity," and crowing like insane bantams over the transcendatt superiority of the "Old Identity" in every walk of life. We will let pass the taste displayed in Xvantonly raking up almost forgotten class prejudices, which in times gone by created such heartburnings and disunion . If either are We disposed lo follow the example set by the individuals we have named, and attempt to elevate one class of the community by disparaging another. But we, in the mildest manner possible, beg to intimate to Messrs. Uiilies and Will that the " New Iniquity " have exhibited some slight enterprise in the province of Otago. We don't care to particularise, but for examples of what has accomplished by the despised class, we refer to a city known as Dunedin, about twenty townships in the interior of the province, the expoit of gold, metalled roads, &c, &c. We might point to the dwellinghouses of this Old Identities, and the Mosgiel Woollen Factory itself, as the resulfc*of the "Coasted enterprise" of the " New Iniquity." It is very certain that if the goldfields had not been discovered, the greater part of the Taieri plain would still have remained a swamp ; the Mosgiel Factory would not yet have been dreamed of ; Dunedin avouUl have been still a fishing village, and cash,, and comfort very scarce among the pre-goidfields settlers. The parapet of the bridge over Manuka ■Creek recently broken away by Kelso's buggy his been repaired in such a manner as to facilitate a recurrence of serious accidents. Skv^ral cattle in. the Tuapeka district, we have been informed, have died through eating. lutu, which, owing to the heavy rains supervening on the drought, is now exceedingly poisonous. The case of Ab. Foo against Ah Tong,. 'which has occupied ths Tokomairiro Court sonis time, wa? decided on Saturday last. Plaintiff sued Ah Toag for wages as navvy on the Olutha line. The defence set op was that A h ■" ong was merely an agent, and that if was due, Messrs. Brogden were liable. Judgment was given for defendant. During tke heariug of the case, defendant had to be escorted to and from his hotel by the police, so incensed were his countrymen Bgain3t him. A rksipest of. Tapanui states that the "" portion of a still" found by the police, recently, at that place, was an old boiler used by h«w«l up shearers for washing their <clotaes. ILutv bating operations have commenced in the Tapanui district. The crop is considered gooi, an I the supply of labor plentiful. Ths scarcity of men for harvesting, complained of in most portions of Otago, has not bean experienced, in Tuapeka. There is a Sufficiency — though not a surplus of labor — and the rate of wages, We have been iniormed, seems fair to bath employers and employed. Jt is likely that the Government will receive a number of offers for the construction <«' &• Beaumont bridge.