RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TE AWAMUTU. Thursday.—(Before Mr H. W. Northcroft, R.M.)

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RESIDENT MAGISTRA TE'S COURT, TE AWAMUTU. Thursday.— (Before Mr H. W. Northcroft, R.M.)

AU'KKI) AND LILM MutriN Y. T.VNM X.— Mi (ticjludd foi plaintiff. Judgment debt, £3 15s, Ordorcd to pay £1 per mouth, with costs £2 8-i (id : hist payment to be made on the 21st hist. ; f.tiling to pay any of the instalments the whole amount to become due and payable. In default, two months imprisonment in Mount J'lden Gaol. J. (I. Ei.ms.llv v. Tvxnek. — Mr (*iesHim fur plaintiff. Judgment debt, £20 0-> Id. ( )i doied to pay £1 per month, with costs, £3 Ills; first payment to be made on the 21st inst. ; failing to pay any of the instalments the whole amount to become due and payable. In default two months impiisonment in Mount I'klen (iaol. R \nci \rv vrrv v. Plkkkuiu — Mi' T)yci fot pl.untili, Mi Hay foi defendant. Claim £5 for a bull alleged to ha\c been wiongfi.lly detained by the defendant, and claimed by plaintitt as his piopeity. The evidence in this case was \ciy conflicting, witnesses on both sides sweaiing to the owneiship; the weight of eudencc, howex ci, was on the side of defendant. Nonsuited w ith costs, £14 7s -\. lather cinious incident happened in connection u ith this case. The defendant, wlnlo under uosso\amination, tainted, and had to be earned out of com t, and was too ill to b> b iccalled foi fuither e\.ann nation. Thon;itivc> weic vciy much scared, and all ian out of cmut, some of them thinking it \vj,j, ,i judgment upon Pukekura. John T\m>\ v. Rom;rir AVi.rwvnriH, Poundkoe])er.~ Messrs Oaiupbull and \)yor for plaintiff, and Mi Hay foi defendant. This suit was bi ought to lecover the Mim of £13 os, amount paid by plaintiff for a hor^u bouifht at a\iction fiom the defend.int, and winch he was oidered by the Ii.AL 'to deb\ei to a native named Kauwhata. Kvidouce having been gisen foi the plaintiff, a point of law was laired by defendant'^ counsel which was aigued at consideiable length by counsel for both sides, who each quoted autlioiities beaiing upon the case ; counsel for the defence contending that a poundkeeper, like a sheiiff or a pawnbiokei, was not liable for loss under such ciicumstances. — Nonsuited with costs, £1 (is. This conclu led the business. These cases occupied the com t till 7 p.m.— (Ow u O>nespondent.)