PAPAKURA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 721, 7 March 1866, Page 6

PAPAKURA.

Eh-idkst IfAC.rsTRATK'a OoniT. (Beforo Charles Midlsop, Esq., K.M".) GRAri'OX v. SCOTT. Defendant was charged with using violent and threatening language to plaintiff at Drury, on 19th l-Y-hruary. There being no appearance of defendant, and service of tlie summons having been proved by Constable MeCafTery, a warrant was issued for his apprehension. m'CAFFKHY V. Klißlt. Pcfendant was charged with a breach of tho 17th clause of tho Municipal Police Act, by leaving his horso unsecured and unattended in the road at I'apakura on 2let February. Defendant not appearing, and service of tho summons be:ng proved by tlie countable, a warrant was issued for his apprehension. Civil Ca3e. GRAHAM V. HAVES'. This was a claim for "Os , damages sustained bv trespass of defendant's pigs at Drury. Plaintiff appeared. There waa iio appearanco of defendant. James Graham, plaintiff, sworn, stated : I reside at Drury, and rent a potato plot, which has a threerailed fenca around it- On tho t)th and 11th of February I found defendant's pigs in the plot. I brought the pigs to defendant ; ho di I not deny tho ownership. J consider that I have suffered damage to thr* amount of oO.i. ° Andrew Buchanan, sworn, states : I am a settler residing in Drury. I sold tho plot ot potatoes when green to plaintiff, for '2oa. I consider thom jk.w worth £3. Tho defendant sent for me after the trespass, and asked mo what damage bad been doup I eaid 15s. would cover all. Judgment for pluintiil'. Damages, £1 and costs. About half-past It on the evening of tho 4th, a driver named I'ainbridgc. in Mr. Quick's employ, who was bringing an empty couch from Otahuhu to Drury, came io the police station, and said that a man, dressed in molt skin trousers and dark- coat, sprang out of tho fern n'-ar U K , Papakurft bridge, ordered him to bail up, and attempted to cut tho reins with ai-heath knife. 7fe (Kuinbridgc) then struck him on the lie id several times with tho butt cud of his whip, and leaving him, as ho thought, dead, proceeded to Papakurn. 0. Mellsop, Ksq., ji. AT., at once despatched Oontable MeCafTery to tlio place, and also proceeded himself, accompanied by J>r. VVclby. After an hour's search, no tvaeo of the supposed de.'td m-.n was discovered.

On the i»: ■ t veiling tlio garden of an old man named Weil iu tue Kerikeri road, was robbed of n quantity r.t onions. Iho stnlka had been twisted o(T and thrown in the road, po as to make tho plunder more poi'iablo, Foot-prints wore traced fr<>m Neil's placo to tliG garden of one of the immigrants at ICorikeri, from which some pumpkins had been abstracted. Since tho departure of Constablo Kin", the polico dutiei have devolved entirely upon Constable Mc affcry. Surely it is nnt mtcncied to leave this large and populous district with only one policeman, for however willing ono man may bo, li« cannot properh- attend to i's requirements. Now thfiro Me no less than 14 public houses in the district, paying over iSOO pound* per annum, viz.,—at. Papatoetoo and Pupakura two each, at I >rury three, at the Wairoa Clock, tlllifl, tdauku, and Hamarama, one each, and at I'olieno two. In closing this, X havo to mention that an attenipt Was made to stick up a man who Was passing through Ohnholm's bush on hors. back, Inst; evcnin;' üboufo o clock.