RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Thursday. (Before T., Kidd, Esq, J.P, Dr. Horne, J.P, and J. Preece, Esq, J.P)

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Thursday. (Before T. , Kidd, Esq , J.P , Dr. Horne, J.P, and J. Preece, Esq, J. P )

The following cases were disposed of with costs :—: — Synw v. EUeu Maddox, £10 lls. 4il. ' Waldon v. Taylor, £7. Copland v. Griffiths, £S. Somerville v. Rust, £40 4i. fid. Datt v. O'Connell, £5 16s. 6d. Bambridge y. llanloy, £17 lls. 6d. claimed. £11 15^. 4d. paid into court. Lewis Brothers v Lloyd. £10 li. Moore v. Hobs, £3 ss. 3d. Wright v. Smith, £2 17s.

SHOOTING A COW. A case of considerable iinpottauce wan partially hoard, Malcolm v. Osborne, for the amount of £21 10a. , for damages sustained by tliq defendant's son shooting a cow belonging to the pl.vintiff. Neil Malcalm, the plaintiff, deposed : I am a settler at Kawau. Ou the 15th August last, I was possessor of several cows, ' one of which was shot on that day. Ou the afternoon of th.vt day, the defendant's son and two other men, having a dog and gun, were observed by me going out in a small boat. They weie about 100 yards distant when I observed them, and they got into the boat "and went to the spot wlieie my cows and calves were grazing. The boat was beached when I heard a gun fired, and about a minute afterwards another gun was fired. The cow was shot immediately after tho boat had beeu beached, which would bo about 4.30, but 1 took no particular notice of tho tune. At about 9 o'clock iv the evening I heard the boat go off, the senior Mr. Osmond being in it at the time. 1 went to the place where the cows wore two days af toi wards, which was near wheie tho euns had been fired. I i saw tho cow hanging up dressed, but could see neither skin n>r head anywhere about the place. I ( found out a place where the head .uid *kin had been buried close alongside, which I swear to ba mine. I told Osmond that I should put a sto;> to that to such work. Tho intrinsic value of the cow would be about £25 ; if anything might be put down at a higher figiuv. At this sta^e of the ca-e, the counsel for the defendant a*ked for an adjournment, that he might be euivMed to attend a case in tho Supreme Court. ■'-JJltiinately the case was adjourned, ntttil 10.30 thin jftoruin|,