R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1689, 19 May 1884, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

MASTERTON.-MONDAY,

Before H. S, 'Wabdell, Esq,, R.M.

J. 0. Ingram vJ. BrowiL-rChimney on fire. Defendant admitted . the offence.and was fined ten shillings.

Sergeant McArdle v P. J. Dogherty. —Disobeying an order to ; contribute towards tho support of his sort in an Industrial school.. Defendant said he had been; in the Greytown Hospital, and had.no means, to pay. He asked for time. The' Court dismissed the charge for the present, as the defendant [was evidently unable to meet the arrears of £7 due by him. J. H. Corbett y B.L.Joneß.—Debt £[ 16s. Judgment for amount and costs. • Samo v.Karaitainana Korou,—D,ebt £i 10s for-buggy hire. Judgment for amount and,costs. . Rapp.and Hare, y Maihera Maarka. —Debt-ill- Bs.' Judgmentfor amount and costs. 'Morison. v Montgomery. Debt of £23 4s. Mr Fitzherbert for plaintiff, and Mr Beard'for'defendant. Walter Morison,'farmer,llariain, deposed- that, last syear he sold a property, to Montgomery, and arranged to plough it at 15s atiiaore. Thearrangoment was a' verbal..one. "• He did the work to the satisfaction of defendant, who never disputed the correctness of the account, Another item was cost of sowing machine, a shilling per acre, and a third for two bushels of seed supplied by .himself.; There was also an item for firewood, (To Mr Beard). Hefirst.niadqthe offer to do the work of ploughing sowing, -(fee., in writing, at sixteen,shillings per acre. This offer was declined.' .He afterwards agreed to do the same thing at fifteen shillings per acre.. Montgomery agreed to pay the cost of the sowing machine as an extra. Kav?nagh was not present when the'latter arrangement was made. Not a word was said about the number.of. times the land was to be harrowed; :it,was to be raked once. He harrowed the lee. land three times atid the loose,land; he harrowed once.There 'were,, fprty r twp. acres: in the section, about nine of which were lee ground,/ Ho ;cou,ld<:not;- remember whether he harrowed' the 1 rest of' the land more' than I once.' ■ Where it wanted .it he ;harrowod, it, a second time. i Once harrowing,wasisuicient where : the-seed-■ was ; : sown-with a machine. • The land, had been cropped ten or before! / He had previously T got ninety bushols -to the iacreMithe land,. Hejajdyised: him-to put turnips in, The' light, crop was not owing'to the seed not beingpro-

perly harrowed in., Montgomeiy-sug-gested another harrowing wasnecessary, | ■Witness 1 replied that it jwasi not, and Montgomery, said then, "Nbver mind, let it go I" • Montgomery, knew nothing nbdub farming, Witness engaged Thomas Chamberlain to roll the ground, He did not pay for rolling the whole of the ground. Ho paid for two days', rolling. Twelve acres' a day'migluV have been dono with such a roller. Rolling was only necessary in a dry season. Montgomery never com* plained to him about the;way the rolling was done. When he sold the land to Montgomery, he. did not sell him the firewood on the place. Receipt produced, ran the firewood,in \Vith the fowls, Witness: used the firewood. Ho did not use any of the. firewood which ho carted for him. ;(To Mr Fitzherbert). Witness had ninetytwo bushels of oats to the, acre two years before he sold it to Montgomery. The crop sown for Montgomery 'was better put' in than any that he'had previously put into the same land. Montgomery got from twelve to fifteen bushels an acre.

T, E. Chamberlain, farmer,- deposed that he rolled about 17 acres of Mr Montgomery's land. The weather turned out wet, which prevented the rest of the land from being rolled, '■■

To Mr Beard .:• He did not roll some crops of his own in the neighborhood for the same reason. ! To Mr Fitzherbert: He would'trust Mr Morison to sow his land; he got about 15 bushels to tho acre himself alst year, the weather being unfavorable.

John Montgomery, the defendant,' called, deposed that he arranged with Mr Morison to do his land at fifteen shillings per acre. For the lower paddock of 18 acres he agreed to pay 16s per acre, in order that the seed should, be drilled in.

To Mr Beard: Morison carted a load of firewood for him; the firewood was not on the place when defendant went in. Defendant asked Morison if tho wide furrow was the usual way in which ploughing was done,

To Mr JFitzherbert: The plaintiff burnt all the firewood there was there (about one dray load). Saw plaintiff drilling the 18 aero paddock; also could see him at work drilling the other, and did not try. to stop him. Trusted entirely to plaintiff what to do. Wheat went about 20 bushels and the oats 30 bushels to the acre. Plaintiff did not do the work properly, —not as defendant liked.

The Court; Do you swear he did not bring 3 loads of firewood? -

Defendant: I could seo there were only two loads. James Kavanagh 'said: Morison told defendant by letter he would plough, sow, and harrow a co.'tain lot of ground at 10s an acre; but something was said about drilling that was not in the letter, Morison agreed to give'three strokes with the harrow, viz., harrow it three times. Of the 12 acre paddock, plaintiff harrowed about 8 acres, and left the other unharrowed. There was a lot of seed exposed. • •:,; To Mr Fitzherbert: Witness said he had farmed before coming to New Zealand, and had used harrrows and drills, but had sown no send. He was not nursing a child when Morison was at work. The paddock should produce about 25 bushels of wheat to the acre if worked properly, and the oats about 60 bushels. Alex. Johnston said he was a farmer and understood cropping, and ground such as Morison's should be harrowed, abput three times, it should also be rolled, which would benefit the crop, and if harrowed once instead of three times would probably injure the crop. The Court: Is it necessary to roll to. insure a crop. Witness: Yes, a good crop. He also thought it better to use the harrow three times. . [Left Silting.]