RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. LAWRENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 363, 10 June 1874, Page 3

RESIDEN T MAGISTRATE'S COURT. LAWRENCE.

(Before E. H. Carew, Esq., R.M.) TUISDAT, 9th JCNB. jpb,amd Another v. /. -Banker.— Sum ;■»%<* jarred. JW* ami Anoilw v. KUcftingham.— |i« jf -^3 19s. sd. for work done and good) f^P* , defendant did not appear jgntnt for Uie^mount chimed, and cost* £bUrt>lo*. »h?t. Oalbi-uith and King r. Banfora j^held'Over to next Friday, as a similar eh of cases had before been at the request counsel. • ' * ' u< " ' ■ BitrndtUlmi Peters v. Draper. — Claim fit (damage done to plaintiffs' water race by i of the defendant, in the paddock of the mdanU Mr. M'Coy. for the defendant. » plaintiffs proved that finding the supply water diminished when they went to work BBtreral occasions, and they had gone up the t tofjj&rthe cause, and found Draper's i rooting the race and the water escaping. ijePeters was giving hi* evidence, BlunQ drew on himself a sharp rebuke for tnpting him, and was told that if caught it again he would be sent to gaol. A unber of non-suit points were raised by Mr. 'Cojior {the -defendant, which were overiled. Draper said that he had ringed all pigi before' this, and they could not have hrn the damage complained of. Other pigi, jthii, might. The race had broken away , places outside his paddock on some of the lies mentioned. The parties, on the suggests of hi* Worship, here ineffectually entrared to settle the matter. Judgment for 1 155. ; and costs of Courts, 9s.