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Thursday, Juke 6. (Before H. W. Bishop, Esq., S.M.) Civil Cases.—lv Blackburne v Tre-1-wney, claim £3 on judgment summons, Mr Byrno appeared for tho creditor, and the debtor Avas ordered to pay forthwith or, in default, three Aveck.' imprisonment. Cooper v Gilmour, claim 12s 6d for accommodation for defendant's employee ; judgment for plaintiff for tho amount claimed Avith coats. Betts v Eayrcs, claim £5, tho value of wearing apparel detained, Avith £5 for damages "for their detention. Mr Byrne appeared for the plaintiff, Mr McC-unel for tho defendant, who put in a couuLer claim of £5 10s for board and lodging and the value of a silver brooch lent by defendant to plaintiff. The defence to the claim was that the articles had been detained pending tho satisfaction of the counter claim. Iv answer to this, plaintiff alleged that the brooch, the loan of which had been forced upon the plaintiff, and which, though A'alued at £3 by defendant, was not Avorth moro than 73 6d, had bean accidentally lost, aud for ooard £2 had been paid, Avhich Avaa surti.'ent. Aftet several hours' hearing, the casq Avas adjourned till the following day. In Fuchs v G-urtenay, a claim for rent of space in the " Woman and Man " exhibition, judgment was now given for tho defendant, on the ground that tho contract, made by on. Cumings, who had assigned tho debt to th. plaintiff, had not been carried out. Costs were not allowed. Mr Franks for th< plaintiff, Mr Donnelly for the defendant tfandstein v Shier Avas a claim for the return of a draw plate—an article used in the manufacture of rings—said to have been lent, to defendant, or its value, £2; Mt Deacon for plaintiff, Mr Widdowson for defendant, who denied that the plate belonger" to plaintiff. The Magistrate gave judg nient for plaintiff, Avith costs. Judgment! went for plaintiffs by default, with costs, in Anderson v Ell, £5 7s ; McConnel v Piper, £2 7a 9d ; Colonial Bank of New Zsaland v Gilchrist, £51 4s 6d ; Pratt v Knyvett, £8 17s ; Meares v Tinner, £10 Is ; HayAvard and Co. v Robinson, £4 ; Haskins v Schumaker, £35 4s 8d ; New Zealand and River Plate Company v Gray, £7 ; Brown v LockAVood, £9 4s, and Kincsud v Ingle, £2 2s.