RAGLAN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3119, 16 July 1867, Page 3

RAGLAN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, MONPA-Y, JtTLY 8. Samuel Joy, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was fined ss. JOSEPH GBAHAM Y. OHABLIS THIIBRT. Defendant did not appear. Plaintiff produced his books, and Bworethat the debt was justly due. Judgment by default. HARBT SMITH Y. BIOHABD TODD. Claim, £5 125. 6d. Defendant admitted 14a. Edward Frissell declined to be sworn till his expenses were paid. Prosecutor promised to pay them, and Mr. Frissell was sworn. Defendant admitted an additional 16s. Edward Frissell, sworn : On the 7th April I spoke to Mr. Todd, and «aid he had better let him go and finish the week out. He went with me. Afterward he offered him 10s. a week. Smith refused to take it. You refused £3 19s. because you said you WO To d d n c O fend.nt: You said he was to finish the Mr! Todd : On account of his intense laziness. Examination contmued : Ido not recollect your telling me to keep him for a week. Hewasreceiring 16s. a week, and 14s. for his board. He was worth it on the survey, but not down here. To the Bench ; I do not know the amount Mr. Todd ° ff pfamtiff, .worn, stated: I asked Mr. Todd l £1 » week aid my board. He said I should have nothing to do but a bit of firewood to cut and go to the Polt-office. I then said 16s. and my board He Baid he would give me 16* On the 7th April I asked him for a cheque. Mis. Hawley came out, and said I was to wait. (Defendant objected to the evidence.) Mr. Frissell said we should lose the tide. I laid I wavhng for some money. ( Defendant again objected to the evidence.) Mr Todd got out of bed, and asked Mw. Hawley the' day of the month. (Defendant again objected to the evidence ) Mr. Todd <?ot up, and and, "Here is a£s cheque : there is 12a. due to you— that is to the 10th April. You had better look out for somethin» else to do." Mr. Frissell came, and said, " How long will you be befora you are ready? ( Defendant again objected to the evidence.) I said, "Mr. Todd told me to look out for something eke to do. lam not tj go up." lug, "I W^JFvS? antes Mr. Todd tells me." He "ririnto MrTodds bed-room, and *aid I w »*^&h SJt Mr went up to Waitetuna. On the 14th May? Mr. Todd said, "You remember my telling you to lo^k it or leav^it." I objected to take it and walked oufof Z office. i«^^J2rjyfe he f2sJ we"k? war Ding. He said, " You are not entitled to . rwtk'rwamfng." Isaid, " ?,^W^

housekeeper, came oat I Mid I wished to*ee Mr. ' Todd. She laid Mr. Todd was at dinner, and I had better sit down in the kitchen. In a quarter of an hoar he came. I stood up to hand him the bill He damned my impudence, and wanted to know what business I had in his house ; at the same time seizing me by the throat with his left hand, and ■baking his right hand in my face, he poshed me oat* side, and slammed the door in my faoe. After that, I potted my bill, and Mr. Todd would not take it By defendant : I did not say you engaged me by the day. I had no notice at all ; you told me to look for something else to do. I Knocked and oame in by the front door when I brought the bill, I had no pipe in my mouth. I \night have had my hat on. By the Court : T* s WM on April 7th that Mr. Todd told me to look out for something else to do. On the 18th April lie owed me £5 12s. , -By defendant : I was never working for the bake; r . By the Bench : I was working for Mr. Todd. He Save me prden during that time. He told me from tun© to time what to do. By defendant: No one put me up to bring the summons. I told you at the time I would summons you. By the Bench : 4s. is for beer from Mr. Graham*, and 6d. is for a bottle of ink Mr. Todd took and said he would <;et me another. I never explained to Mr. To"d the charge for beer and ink. For the defence, Mr. Toddoalled ** — Stevens, who deposed : I know Smith. ' He worked one night with me during the time he was with you. Emma Clarke deposed ; 1 remember a night Smith was working with the baiter. He was walking about for three days afterwards, To plaintiff: I believe it was three days you were laid up. Richard Todd deposed : I engaged Smith at 16s. a week, and 14s. for his board. (Witness produced his books.) I told him on the 18th, when I gave him the cheque, that he vas so infernally lazy that I could not stand it, and he had better look out for something else to do ; men in Auokland are glad to get ss. a week. 1 said to Mr» Frissell, "We m * v M well have a week's work out of him, as he is entitled to a week's notice." After the week he did not co ; he hung about the place, as 1 thoaght, looking for another situation, until I saw he w4s not going, I neverjinterfered with him. He was away three or four days at a time. I offered him hi* ;he would not take it. Your Worship is Ware that 16s. a week is high wages for a man to do nothing for it. To plaintiff : I did tell you to clean the furze out of the paddock. I did not expect that you were to eat 14s. a week for nothing. I did tell you to go with MoCracken, who said you were no good. I was cautioned not to take you, ss you are a lazy fellow. By the Bench: I consider I gave him a week's notice on the 18th April. He lived in my house because I did not wish to be hard on him. I did not get the value of his board out of him. I offered him £1 Bs. I never offered him £3 19s. I put £3 9s. on the table. I offered him 10s. a week, an offer whioh I now withdraw, as he has put me to great inconvenience. It was a mere piece of generosity on my part. j • • Judgment for plaintiff, £1 123. 6d, ; plaintiff to pay the costs of Court. There were no other cases, Captain Johnstone applied for his expenses in the case of Wilson r, Mao Donald. ' The clerk of the Court tendered him 10s. Captain Johnstone remonstrated with' the Magistrate, saying thit he had repeatedly applied for his expenses ; that he had hitherto been told that Mr. Wilson had not yet paid the Court expenses ; and that on one occasion he (the Magistrate) had shown him the scale, by which he was entitled to 10*., and mileage at the rate of Is. a mile, amounting together to£l. The Magistrate said Wilson would not pay any more. Captain Johnstone saidhe would snmmons Wilson. The Magistrate said he oould do so, but he did not think he would get any more, Captain Johnatone said that, if the Contt bad decided the point, it was nouse.his summoning Wilson. He had been kept three months waiting, had applied three times, and was now offered half the Court bad told him he was entitled to. He had beeu most shamefully treated by the Court. ' ' ' The Magistrate ordered the constable to take Captain Johnstone into custody for contempt of Court. This having been done, the Magistrate, Mr. Stewart, asked Captain Johnstone if he wished to purgt himself of contempt of Court. Captain Johnstone repeated that he had been most shamefully treated by the Court. The Magistrate asked if he wished to bring the bring the (Joutt into publio contempt. To a question so skilfully wrapped up, the rankest recusant oould not reply in the affirmative, far less the mildlooking individual in the charge of the stalwart constable. Captain Johnstone having replied in the negative, the Bench ordered him to be discharged, leaving it not even a matter of doubt as to who had •wallowed the purge.