RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE. (Yesterday,—Before H. W. Northcroft Esq, R.M.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1386, 21 May 1881, Page 2

RESID ENT MA GISTRATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE. (Yesterday,— Before H. W. Northcroft Esq, R.M.)

Mary Ann Littledaxk, charged with making use of bad language in a public thoroughfare on the evening of Thursday last, w.is mulcted in the sum of £3 and costs ; in default, two months' imprisonment.

Civil Cases. Camp v. Maim: Claim for ISs 6d. Judgment for plaintiff for 6s. 2d. and! costs. Rayncs v. Wilson: claim for 21s. A sum of 14s had boon panl into Court. The case wjvs :m adjourned hearing from last day. Judgment for amount paid into Court. Camp v, Hruuton: Judgment for amount oUimed and oo^ts. Kdjinr \\ Montvose. —This was an acljournoil c«m', in which plaintiff claimed C2O, wajjM. netVmUnt, who was represented tiy Mr l>yer, applied for a further adjournment, to enable the evidence of witnesses lesiding in Canterbury and Wellington to be obtained. Mr Beale, for plaintiff, objected to the application being heard until cost of the previous adjournment had been settled. That objection having been satisfied, Mr Dyer renewed his application for postponement. In lesisting it, Mr Beale pointed out that plaintiff had been unfairly treated. What he sued for was wages, and although defendant admitted a certain amount to b& due, he had not even paid that sum into Court. It was most unfair to the plaintiff; who was a young man, solely dependent upon his earnings, and who was prevented by these delays leaving Waikato in search of employment. Counsel further argued that due diligence had not been exercised iv obtaining the evidence desired to be got from Christchurch. Defendant had allowed thirteen days toelapse from the first hearing before taking out the order for such evidence. The Bench admitted there was ground for complaint, but at the same time reminded plaintiffs counsel that when the case was first heard it was^listinctly understood, that hearing was only partial, so as to meet the convenience of plaintiffs witnesses, and that an adjournment; was distinctly stipulated for. Looked afc in that light, the hardship was not so great as might otherwise seem. The renewed application, however, would only be granted on condition that the cost of previous adjournments was paid, and the amount admitted to be owing deposited, in Court. Order made accordingly.

A 6TJICXDE occurred recently atHaw^thora, Melbourne.' A man nataed; Free! Battley blow out his brains.