AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 109, 3 August 1877, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, July; 31, 1877. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq-, R.M.) APPLICATION FOE RE-HEARING.

Oil the opening of the Court, Mr. Joblin applied for a re-hearing of the case, Gilliat v. Joblin, on the grounds, that the judg-ment-given at Little River, on July 28th, .had.given the plaintiff possession of land, which had been the property of defendant for years past., He (Joblin) was prepared to produce the evidence of a surveyor to that effect. He had seen. Mr. Gilliat, and informed him of his intention of applying for a rehearing. Mr. Gilliat had made no reply when so informed. By the Bench'-.- He would give such security as might be required. Security was then required for the amount of judgment, and, on these conditions, the Bench'gran ted a rehearing for the 25th August, at Little River. ' " ' UNREGISTERED DOG.

William Patton, who was charged with having in his possession, on the 17th July, one unregistered dog, pleaded ' Not guilty." Constable Lamb deposed that'he saw the dog in Patten's possession, and that when asked about it he (Patten) said it did not belong to him, and that he had spoken to the constable at the Head of the Bay about it.

By Sergeant Ramsay: Patten had had the dog since ,»at Christmas.

The accused said it was true the dog had been with him since .Christmas.' but it was not his'dog. Had asked the police at the .Head of the Bay'what he had better do, , and had been referred.io.Sergeant Ramsay. . The Bench'consideredthe.dog. was.in his following, and that was sufncieiiiC -Fined-" 20s ami cost's."' v , ',■' v "; EdgaryJVilliams, who pleaded guilty to a similar offence, was fined 20s and costs.