PAPAKURA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1128, 26 June 1867, Page 6

PAPAKURA.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COFRT. Tuesday, June 25. [from our own cobbespondekt.] (Bofore Charle3 Mellsop, Esq., R.M.) Civil Case. NAriEIS V. ATTBILL. This case, which was adjourned from the 17th, was heard yesterday. Claim £1 i os., balance of wages due. From plaintiff's evidence it appeared that when the Gymnotus steamer changed hands from Mr. Hurst to defondant, he (plaintiff) was engineer on board, and was paid at tho rate of 7s. per day. He was five days on board after the change of ownership, and received ss. on account. Defendant did not appear, and judgment waa given by default for £1 10s. and costs of court. Thio was only case before the Bench,

Since thia day fortnight the weather has been very variable up till this day week. Since that time a steady frost has set in, which has been, so intense during night that some very old settlers tell me they never Baw such keen frost in this part of the country, and to-day again there is the appearance of a change to rain.

It would be well if we had some more frost, as it is an excellent pulveriser of the groand that is ploughed up, and also a grand destroyer of the insect larvto deposited on the ground and in the bark of trees; but I must stop, and not encroach further on your columns at this season of letters, speeches, and Council debates.