RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thursday.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 65, 24 March 1870, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thursday.

[Before T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

Jt-OG-tEXT.. FOR PLAT-TUFFS.

Bro a.Tt v Knox —claim £—, unsatisfied costs of court. Lascelles v McTavish— claim, £9 ltis , money lent. Moore v Downing—claim, £17 95., "oods supplied. Auckland Consolidated Gold Mining Company v Metcalfe —claim, £5 12s. fid., arrears of calls. Hurst v Plumley— £20, balance of account. Bund of Hope Gold Mining Company v Graham—cla m £3, arrears of calls, fcame v Goddard—claim £2. arrears of calls. LJ ill v La.ceiies —claim £3 125., work and labour done.

An.T-!URN_tEXTS

Seceombo & Son v Dooley. Cuckoo Gold Mining Company v Allen. Haywood v Hurst (for particulars of account to be supplied). Jones . Grant. Golden Crown ICxtended Gold Mining Company v Taylor. DEFENDED CASES.

Lascelles v Beale -claim £21, damages, money lost. Mr. Wynn for plaintiff. Mr. Sii-elian for the defence. This ease had already been partly heard at the last sitting of the court, when plaiutiifwas examined. • Maruiaduko Constable sworn : I know defendant in this action. I remember being in Auckland, at Mr. Lascelle's office, in August last. I met. him coming out as I was going in ; with his permission, I went into his private office, to get a book; defendant's son banded it down to me. Raising the book, my finger cought upon something on the shelf. I saw it was a oocket-book, such as the one produced. I said to Beale, " Why, here's a pocket boon, with a lot of bauk notes." 1 told him he had better give it to Mr. Lascelles. He repliod, " Oh ! Mr. Lascelles has gone." I lefc the pocket-book where I found it. I Went out to the back yard. On my return I found young Beale at the bookoase, reading, and a young lad of about fifteen standing close by him. Nothing was said. I went out to the outer office. Be de came out shortly ._ fl asked him who the young lad was ; if ho was one of Mr. Lascelles' sons, tie said, No. but he was a very intimate friend of the family. I read what I wanted in the book, and went away. I returned in about an hour. I met young Beale, he said do you remember seeing that money in the room. I said, Ido remem. be., and then he said that it was gone. He said do you remember the youngster that washere at that time, he will take his solemn oath that, he has not seen the notes. I detailed all this to Mr. Lai-celles. Th? last of this witnesses evidence tallied with that given by him on a previous occasion, when under examination in the Supreme Court. Mr. Sheehan cross-examined this witness but elicited nothing which materialy effected his evidence. This concluded the plaintiffs case. Mr. Sheehan said he would not take up the time of the Court by addressing it, but would at once call his witnesses. The bench observed that it was pretty evident what the case was. Mr. Sheehan then called John Beale, son of the defendant, sworn : On the 17th last August I was in the service of the plaintiff. Recollect on that morning Mr. Lascelles, going out to the Supreme Court; he met last witness in the passage ; he told him to go into his office, where he would find the book ho wanted, and pens, ink, and paper Ho had been in before me by about half-a-minute. I was then sitting at my own table. 1 followed him in to look at a book ; whilst reading it, Constable asked inn to hand down the book on patents. I handed it dovvn to him. When taking it, his sleeve caught in a pocketbook ; he said, "Halloa! Here's a pocketbook with bank notes in it. He asked me whose it was. I had never seen it before. I asked him if it was not his ; he said " No, it is not mine ; I have only just come in " I said, "Then it must be Mr. Lascelles'." He asked me where he had gone to. I told him to the Supreme Court, and that he would be back again in half-an-hour. He took the key t of the closet with him and went out. Whilst absent, young Merriman came in, and asked for the . loan of the key. . I told him some one else had it, he might have it when he came in. Young Merriman 'had been in the office once or twieo before. He waited

out I Trent on reading. When Constable returned he saw us in the room, aud I told -pi* jyrriman lie might have the key. He went I' and Cons'able said "who is that boy, is he of plaintiff's sons ?" I replied no, but he __ 'a friend of the family. We stayed there *_Bf*few minutes and then we went out. Con stable placed the book on the table and went out into the street. I told him I expected [Left sitting.]

Tit for Tat ! —A wife wanted her husband to sympathise with her"in a feminine qussrrel: but he refused, sayingr, "I've lived long enough to know that oye woman is as good as another, if not better." "'.-./ id _*,'' retorted the exasperated wife, l; have lived long enough to know that one man is as bad as another, if not -Torse." J& s*\ ££r ° __ ■ w 4 l- ' »

I POLICE COURT.— Thursday. TBefore Dr. Home and J. O'Neill Esqs., I L J.Ps.] DRtr_.KENI.ESS. George Beeley for his first appearance was fined ss. Ann Barnett, who made her second bow, was fined 10s. and costs. Edward Binke and Henry Mason charged with being drunk and disorderly, were fined 20s. and costs, or the usual default. DESERTION. William Wilson, who pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion from H.M.S. Brisk, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner _of Police was discharged. The prisoner having been since his desertion disabled from further service, the Commissioner stated it was useless to put the province to further expense. IARCRNT. James Stewart charged with stealing sundry articles of linen from the Kyber Pass Road, the property of W. Rees solicitor, pleaded guilty. Tie Commissioner of Police in reply to the Bench, said he would if possible, recommend the prisoner to their merciful consideration, but this was not the first offence, and ii was a practice that must be stopped. He called the servant girl Mary Hutchinson, who ideniified the articles, and the Bench sentenced the prisoner to one month's impri. oninent, with a caution that if he again appeared before theni' they would sentence him to six months with hard labour.

This was all the business,