RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Inangahua Times, Issue 78, 4 September 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, SuPTKMimn 3rd, 1878. (Before Edward Shaw, Esq., R.M.) Faiuitcji r, Wowb. Claim for £18 for work nnd labor dono, Mr Moss for plaintiff. Mr Pitt for defendant. Richard Farmer — I nm ft onrpontor j I entered into an agrooment with defendant to work for him at £3 por week and found". I was building ft boat for him and worked six wool: at that and other world naked for my money nnd defendant told mo ho had nono. I recoivod £3 I.ls cash from him. Cross'oxnminotl— l went to work on June 3rd : I had not boon staying at h's pluco boforo that ; I mot him in lloofton andaskodhim if he could givo mo a job 1 } ho said ho would giro mo n boat to build, I did not toll him what traclo I was, but ho knew that I had built somo boats down tho river. Thn wages wore monlionod j he agreod to givo mo £3 por wcok and tound Tho first work I did was to look out for timbor for tho framo of tho bout nnd he supplied tho plonking. I told him (hat I had had groat experience in boot building I did leavo tho work for an. hour or ?o] T never finishod tho boat ; 1 was building two bontH; thoro is ono in tho water and tho other is on tho bank j I only ro« plankod ono boat j I loft bocauso I could not got any monoy. JIo novor complained of my cutting his timbor to wasto. This closed tho caso for tho plaintiff. Mr Pitt oponod tho dofonoo briefly, and thon onllod Iho following ovoidonoo, [Robert Wolfe— l am a ferryman at the Loft-Hand Branch, and know tho pUJn tinflf; ho spoko to mo about boat building and said hia chnrgo would bo 10a por day and found. I agrood to employ him to build n boat at tho rato stated ; ho 'oi mo that ho.had sailed from Hokitika to Charleston in a whaloboat of his own mako. Tho boat oommoncod by plaintiff for mo ii not fininhod. It wants both battens and knoos. On tho 2Uh or 25th July ho told mo that ho did not sco that ho could do nny moro to tho boat. Tho boat is no good to mo, sho is lopsided and crooked, and tho joinla nr« rory rough 1 1 oomplaincd about tho boat and plaintiff said my oyo docoivod mo ; I told I him tho boat was vory little good to vne and he hod hotter keep ifc until I paid him. * • « • i ■ *%<■ ■■

CroBS-oxaminod— l did not consider tho boat nny good lo mo. I am propnrocl to swonr that tho agrcoment was to build a now boat, 1 Tho Court horo adjourned for tho sit* (ing of tho Liconsing Court.