Local Intelligence. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wednesday, November 27.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 104, 4 December 1861, Page 2

Local Intelligence. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wednesday, November 27.

[Before J. POYNTER, Esq., Resident Magistrate]. M'Kay v. Tucker, for £6 18s., for rent. Defendant had paid £1 10s. aince the issue of the summons, and admitted the balance. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs. Anstice 0. Jacobscn, for £4 2s. 6d., for bread supplied.

Defendant had paid £2 ss. since the issue of tho summons, and admitted the balance. Judgment for pluiutiff, with costs. Pilchard v. Bush, for £19 45., for an overdue acceptance.

Judgment for plaintiff, with costs, payable in one month.

Rentoul v. Lovie, captain of the Gladiator, for £12 15?. lid., for two barrels of sugar which had been suffered to fall from the wharf into the harbour.

Judgment for plaintiffs, for the amount claimed, with costs.

Thursday, November 28,

Lovie v. Winterburn, for £15 63. lid., for two barrels of sugar which had been suffered to fall from the wharf into the harbour. Judgment for defendant, with costs.

Monday, December 2.

Mary Hollmoay was charged with having, on Saturday, November 30, feloniously stolen £11 and one pocket-book, the property of Charles Ynrker.

Charles Braddyll Yarker, being sworn, said : I live at Mr. Coulman's boarding-hou3e, Bridge-street. I took off my coat between ten and half-past ten o'clock in the morning of Saturday, and had taken therefrom a red pocket-book, which I placed upon a table in my bed-room. When I placed the book on the table it contained several English and Nelson letters, receipts, two new £5 notes, and one £1 note, all issued February, 1861. I missed the book between half-past teu and half-past eleven. I went into my room for the Englisii letters in order to post them, and found tho book was not there. Prisoner was servant at the house where I was staying. I have since seen the £1 note nt Langford's. I ideutify the book now produced. It is the one I lost. It now contains two £5 notes, the number of one of which I knew ; it was No. 1,900. I identify the £1 note now produced as the one I lo3h Robert Shallcrass, being sworn, said : In consequence of a warrant I received, I went to Coulman's boarding-house, and made a search. I apprehended a man named Boyhan, at the house and having searched him, I found a £1 note and other money in his possession. The prosecutor said that was not his note. I took Boyhan into custody, and then proceeded to search his trunk. At the bottom of that trunk I found a red pocket-book, which was the one shown to last witness, who then identified it. Later in the day a £1 note, which was missing, was traced to Mr. Langford. It had been chauged there in the morning. Prosecutor, when he saw it, at once iudeutified that note.

Amelia Coulman, a child about eight years old, who was not sworn, said : On Saturday last I went to Mr. Langford's for some oranges. Mary Holloway gave me a£l note. Mr. Langford gave me some change, and I gave it to Mary, the prisoner at the bar. I also gave Mary the orange 3. lam sure Mary gave me the note, and told me to get some oranges.

John Alfred Langford, being sworn, said : I am a storekeeper. I received, on Saturday last, a£l note from a child of Mr. Coulman, who came for three oranges and one lemon. I gave her nineteen shillings in silver as change, and put the note away in the cash box. I identify the note produced as the note I then took.

Azubah Coulinan, being sworn, said : The prisoner at the bar was my servant. She was living with me on Saturday last. The prosecutor complained to me, on Saturday, that he had lost a pocket-book containing two £5 notes and one £1 note. Prisoner was there, and said she had not seen it. Prisoner had access to prosecutor's room, and could go in and out at any time. I was present when Mr. Shallcrass found the pocket-book in Boyhan's box. I had a slight suspicion against the prisoner from trivial things of my own which I had lost and found in her possession. Prisoner's mother lives at Wakapuaka; her father is dead.

Prisoner : I took the book more with a view of having a lark, as prosecutor was so careless with his money. It was the second time I had picked it up, and he was very careless of his money. The Resident Magistbate : But, unfortunately, you had disposed of one of the notes. Had you not done so, it might have been different. I regret it is not in my power to deal summarily with the case. I must commit you for trial, though I think it is one of those cases that might have been dealt with summarily.