PRESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 94, 12 November 1877, Page 2

PRESIDENT MAGIS TRATE'S COURT

•6at?siu?, NoyEKqEij JOLli, 1877---(Before E, Shaw, Esq., li.M.) poaiyoN As?At T w, Thomas King appeared on information, charged with assaulting and beating ore Maude I\facnarmara, at Keefton, on the 3§nd of October. Mr Staite appeared for the defence. Sergeant Neville applied for a remand until Tuesday next. lie said that constable Jeffrie's had only recently returned from Hokitika, and time had not been had to prepare the case au.4 summon witnesses. Mr Staite said he had no objpcllon to nrcotQ'tbo rexgnnd aa lip, himself, had only just been retained. He would ask the Court to take bail for defendant's re« , appearance. It was a question whether the defendant was properly befo.ve the Court, but apart from that he (Mr Staite) had been instructed that defendant had a good defence upon the mciils, and be pequired to get witnesses. If bail werq allowed defendant was prepared with hyo respectable sureties. Pefendant bad been brought before the Magistrate at HokU tika, and bail was allovyed, though defendant hfid been unable tp get aaypuo in Hokitika to take up the bail. His Worship said he understood that 1 defendant was already upon his recognisance in respect to a former charge against bin}.

i S«fge#B(fc jßfovjlie .explained the recogtyisancfi referred to had expired, but the aflU?ged offence ,was .cotnmit.ted fcefore .expiry, i-Tis -Worship agreed ,tp accept bail, and Oxed the .amount at ,defen4aut ;n £JOQ, and ,t»vo surieties of £-JQ ea/sh. AI^EX V. .CAMPBEW.. This .was a claim, for £4 4s 5d for goods sojld aod delivered. Plai nliff stated .t.l\afc d^fendanjl; herself h.s,d ordered the goods, but during tlie I of her husband. Defendant denied having ordered the goods saying thpt her lyisJwxd always gave the orders. Plaintiff repeated iv's assertion., and added that 4iefore obtaining the goods defendant called at tbe store and priced the different articles, and they had been given to her at a very loir rate. In reply to Uie Bench defendant stated tjhat when her husband died he left neither property nor money, except $s. She sub* se^uently admitted, however, that her husband's life had b,eon insured for £J.OG anmun.t plie had recfiiv^d and applied in part towards the support of ike -children. Tiierp vrag also a house built iupon the Education, Keserve Black's Point. JPlainti^ 1 said tluafc he had offered to £OE3po.und the debt mth defendant, b.ut she positively refused to pay any portion of it, and was very cLeeky into the bargain and he tjierefors brought the case into Court. His Worship said it wap clear that the goods had been supplied, and the defendant's husband had left money at his death the amount would have 'to be paid.. Judg* Djent accordingly. The Court then adjourned.