LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4665, 26 October 1876, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

SUPREME COURT.—-In Banco, Wednesday, October 25. [Before His Honor Mr. Justice Gillies.]

The ordinary weekly sitting in banco was held this morning, and the following business disposed of :—

Calls to tub Bar.—George Nathaniel Brassey, Esq., and Maurice Ualph Keesing, Esq., upon the application of Mr. P. M. V. Brookfield, were formally admitted as solicitors and barristers of the Court, having taken the requisite oaths.

Jones and Another v. Brogden and Another (arbitration). —Mr. Hesketh, instructed by Mr. Walter Hill, for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Buddie (Whitaker and Russell) for the defendants. The action came before the Court at the July Civil Sittings, and was by consent referred to arbitration. At the last sitting of the Court the award was received. This was a motion to enter up judgment. The particulars of the action have been several times stated. An action was brought under two specific forms, one for work and labour done, and the other for money payable under a schedule of prices. The gross sum was £30,000, but this sntn was reduced by payments to two specific claimß, one for £5095 and the other for £7394. The matters in difference were so strictly matters of account and measurements and calculation, that the issues were referred to an arbitrator (Mr. Theophilus Heale), who was to find on each account as a jury, those findings were to bo entered upon a record, and the Court waa to be applied to upon receipt of the arbitrator's certificate to give judgment. This was a motion to enter the arbitrator's certificate on the record. The total amount found by the arbitrator to be due to the plaintiffs was £4379 10a 3d.— Mr. Buddie said the notice of the present proceedings had been received only on Monday. It was necessary to have recourse to the telegraph for instructions, and no sufficient time had been allowed the defendants to consider the effect of the various findings.—His Honor thought the Court as well as the parties might reasonably require time to consider the effect of the award, and adjourned the argument upon the application for a week.