The Kaikoura Chronicle.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 119, 30 May 1868, Page 4

The Kaikoura Chronicle.

j (From our Own Correspondent.) COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS. Tuesday, May 12.—Before C. R. Keene, Esq., j and H A. Ingles, Esq. • Transfer was authorised of the publican’s license of Charles Evans of the Kaikoura Hotel, % at Kaikoura, to Albyn Close. ...■ lie hi- ■-■■■ - - Debt ■ Cases. 1 Charleston v. Gilford.— This was an action to recover the sum of £2O for goods supplied and board. John Howard appeared for defendant, who now resides at Orari, neiar Timaru, Canterbury. Plaintiff stated that he was a publican, and kept the Traveller’s Rest at Kaikoura, during the years 1865 and 1866, when he supplied the defendant with the goods and board as shown in the bill, which was a copy from his book. No evidence was offered for the defence. Judgment for plaintiff for full amount, and £2 7s, costs. ... Ooodall Rate Collector for Marlborough Education Board v. Hailes. —The claim was £3—£l for, arrear of household rate for , year 1866, and £2 for one year’s school fees for two of defendant’s children. J. T. Home, deposed : I am I', School teacher af'Ti.aii coura;'"three of Mr. I Hailes’ children attend, school—one above the j age of 14 years. one below the ago of 7years, 1 and: the other between the ages of 7 and 14 years. I Mr. Hailes had, paid mo the; fees for the one. V above fourteen, and the one between, the ages of •7 and 14 I have received no. fees for ; his |two daughters, Mary,Ann and Wiuefred Mary, I have been told by Mr. Hailes, are between the ages of 7 and 14 years. By the Bench: lam entitled to charge for children over the age of fourteen years, if they are, sent to school. I Sergeant Goodall deposed; i was appointed / Collector of the household rate for the year 1866. I 'I attended at Charleston Accommodation House I on Wednesday, the 7th of March, 1866, for the purpose of receiving the rate. The defendant . did not pay me, nor has he paid me since ;. to the best of my belief notice for payment of the rate, in conformity with the Education Act, was published in the Marlborough newspapers. The defendant stated he had never been called on for the rate for 1866 ; that he paid for, two of his children, whom he sent to school, and that he . 1 ; was willing.to pay for the other (the oneiUnder VV age) but Mr, Home: would not, receive it; he , would admit that his two daughters, who he did j , not send to school, were; between, the ages of seyen and fourteen years ; The Bench gave ,judgment for plaiptiff for full with 12s. ■j, costs, remarking to, defendant that the Act was .very explicit j that parents must .pay fees for. all their children, between the, ages of seven and ; fourteen years, whether they, sent them to school. .. . or not, unless they could show they went to a private school. . .. .-.wV-X i '■ j : y.‘ Same v. Haggar. —This was for sEI, arrear of 'rate for last year.: Judgment ;was given for t defendant, who proved I his; non-liability—not vs.rbeing a: householder ■ at. the time . the. rate was "levied. v’" id rh:,hv i-- .l.lud ~iU-.Uu,"! [fp. • ' Same v. Poofe/—-This was’ for.£l,_arrear of rate for last year- The-defendant in this ’case,- - ws in -last, proved his-hob-liability ■ topay the

rate on the same grounds. Judgment for defendant.

A number of others, who had been summoned as defaulters, paid the Collector’s demands into Court before the day of hearing.

Inquest. —On Tuesday, the 12th May, an inquest was held before C. R, Keene, Esq., J.P., at the Kaikoura Hotel, Kaikoura, on the body of Henry Cola- shoemaker. The following evidetlciT was then adduced: —William Dalton, sworn, said, I am a sailor belonging to the schooner Ruby. About half-past seven, or twenty minutes to eight o’clock; last night, I went to go on board the Ruby, and I found the boat gone, and a horse tied to the wool-shed near to the wharf. I cooeed, and then went for Charles Haggar and George Cloke, and asked Haggar if he could recognise the horse, but he could not. I then launched a dingy and went on board the Ruby, which was lying off the wharf at Kaikoura. I found on the deck the clothes—a pair of moleskin trousers, coat, cap, shirt, socks, and boots—now produced by the police, to whom I afterwards gave them. I assisted Robert Cameron Nevelle and George Cloke to get up the body out of the water ; we then delivered the body to the Sergeant of Police, who was present. The boat belonging to the vessel had been previously made fast ashore and to the vessel by me. —Robert Cameron Nevelle, sworn, said 1 am a sailor on board the schooner Ruby. Having heard, yesterday event; ing, Henry Cole was missing from the wharf, I proceeded with George Cloke in the boat belong-. ing to the vessel—which ‘ had been recovered' from the rocks—in searcho f the body, which we found close to the rocks, about forty yards from where the boat was found, and we two, with VV: Dalton, lifted the body into the boat and brought it ashore, and handed ‘it over to Sergeant Goodall. I saw Henry Cole alive at about four o’clock in the afternoon ; he was then aboard of the vessel. It was about half-past nine when I first went in search of the body ; and ten minutes past eleven at night when wo found it. I believe the coat now produced is the one Henry Colo was wearing when I saw him on board ; I also believe the body which we found in the water to be that of Henry Cole.—Charles Haggar, sworn, said I am a carpenter, residing at Kaikoura. I saw the body which was recovered from the harbor last night, and I identify it as that of Henry Cole ; he was a shoemaker..—A verdict was found by the jury, that deceased was accidentally drowned in the harbor at Kaikoura.—The funeral of deceased took place on Thursday, the 14th. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Society. All the members of the Kaikoura lodge attended,, as well as nearly all the male inhabitants of the neighborhood. He was much respected. The corpse was interred in the new cemetery. Hxs Lordship the .Bishop, of Nelson, accompaid us another visit on Sunday, the 17th, and preached two very impressive sermons—one at the Court House ia the morning, and the other in the schoollumse in the afternoon There was a numerous attendance on each occasion. At the close of the latter a meeting was held to appoint three Church Officers, when Mr. A. W. Ingles was chosen by the Bishop, and Messrs. G. F. Bullen and C. 11. Keene on the part of the laity.