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told me I could have the spanker-boom. I picked up some gear on the Hump, at Awanui. I gave it at Whangaroa for a cannon. William D. Gifford recalled, states that the rope now in Court never left the wreck in a headedup cask. £ s. d. Deficiency in butter .. ... ..300 Deficiency in pork ... ... ... 14 14 10^Freight and portage ... .. ... ... .. 0 7 0 Fine ... .. ... 20 0 0 Costs ... ... ... ... 2 17 0 Judgment: Fine, £20; costs, £2 175.; and restitution of goods seized and payment of deficiency as above, £18 Is. 10§d,: or six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Thomas Ball, J.P Robeet Wyles, J.P J L. Chapman The foregoing depositions, written on eleven sheets of paper, numbered consecutively from 1 to 11, are true copies of all depositions taken in the case Joshua Hutchison v. John Anton Subritzky, heard on the 13th day of May, 1881, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Mangonui, before Thomas Ball, Robert Wyles, and James Leslie Chapman, Esqs., Justices of the Peace. Geo. Kelly, 11th July, 1881. Clerk, R.M. Court.

Oedee of Couet. Be it remembered that, on the 25th day of April, 1881, complaint was made before Robert Wyles, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said colony, by Joshua Hutchison, constable, for that John Anton Subritzky, of Awanui, had had unlawfully in his possession certain goods—that is to say, two coils of whale-line, part of a cask of pork, and part of a keg of butter —belonging to the barque " Janus," cast on shore at Awanui Heads, in the Colony of New Zealand aforesaid. And now, at this day, to wit, on the 13th May, 1881, at Mangonui, the undersigned, three of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said colony, having heard the matter of the said complaint, do adjudge the said John Anton Subritzky to forfeit and pay the sum of £20, and a further sum of £18 Is. 10-^-d. in payment of deficiency of goods unlawfully deficient, together with the sum of £2 17s. costs ; and if, upon a copy of a minute of this order being duly served upon the said John Anton Subritzky, he shall neglect or refuse to obey the same, in that case we adjudge the said John Anton Subritzky, for such his disobedience, to be imprisoned in the common gaol at Auckland, in the said provincial district, there to be kept to hard labour for the space of six months, unless the said order be sooner obeyed. Given under our hands this 13th day of May, in the year 1881, at Mongonui, in the province aforesaid. Thos. Ball, J.P Robeet Wyles. J L. Chapman.

Authority: G-eokge Didsetoy, Grorernment Printer, Wellington.—lBBl.