WAIKATO DISTRICT NEW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6269, 20 December 1881, Page 3

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEW.

I « (.FROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENTS.] Hamilton, Monday. A meeting of the Hamilton cavalry troop i was held on Saturday evening, to receive the ! resignation of Lieutenant Johnson. Cap- ! tain Whitaker, who occupied the chair, then read the letter from Lieutenant Johnson, ■ tendering his resignation because "he could not afford the time actually necessary to perform the duties of the office as they should be done." He stated that it was owing to Lieutenant Johnson's assiduity that the troop had arrived at their present state of efficiency and discipline. Lieutenant Johnson with many expressions of thanks for the kindly feeling of the corps manifested towards him, said that when put in such a manner he could not refuse their request, and would reconsider his determiuation, and remain in the troop another six months. If he then left he would become an honorary member, and attend their monthly sword and carbine drills, and do what he could to promote the efficiency of the corps. The Chairman then declared the resignation held over until after the May drill. The Licensing Commissioners on Saturday refused a license to the newly erected hotel, the Phienix, at Morrinsville, on the ground that as the Licensing Commissioners would so soon be elected by the people, they thought it right to leave the opening of a new house to be virtually settled by the people themselves. The R.M. Court was occupied all Saturday with two police and several civil cases. Mr. T. G. Sandes, C.E., was charged by Dr. B. C. Beale with assault in pulling the ear of his son, Thomas, at Sir George Grey's meeting at Hamilton, on the 2nd instant. Young Beale deposed that he was at the meeting, and joined in the hissing and hooting to prevent Mr. Kennedy Hill from being heard, when moving an amendment to the confidence motion in Sir G. Grey. Defendant, he said, told him he was not an elector, and only a boy, and to be quiet, and on his refusing to be quiet, pulled hie ear. The Court considered the assault a trivial one, and fined defendant Is, prosecutor to pay his own costs. The only civil case of interest was that of Robeon v. Beale, for drugs supplied. The case had been adjourned from last Court-day for the production of further evidence in proof that a verbal agreement existed between the parties, whereby the defendant, Dr. Beale, rendered himself responsible for drugs supplied to him by plaintiff for the use of defendant's patients along the railway line between Hamilton and Mercer. Mr. A. O. Field, late master of the East Hamilton school, being sworn, stated that he was present in Kobson's chemist shop when the agreement was made, being with his wife in conversation with plaintiff, when Dr. Beale came into the shop, but witness was unseen by Dr. Beale. He circumstantially detailed the terms of the agreement as then made. Dr. Beale was then put in the box, and reiterated his denial of the previous Court day, that any such agreemeut was made between himself and Mr. Kobson, stating that both Robsou and Field had sworn falsely ia so stating. Captain Jackson, the Chairman of the Bench, said it was a melancholy case to see men of such position swearing in direct contradiction to each other. It was clear that there was wilful perjury on one side or the other, he did not say which. Ulti mately a judgment was given for plaintHF for the druf_;s £1 18s 7d, less 15s paid into Court. Defendant to pay costs lus. Verdicts for plaintiff were given in the following eases :—Coleman v. Hackett, £G 2s 4d ; same v. Tcague, £4 12s 10d ; Caldwell v. Gould, claim £15 17s 4d, judgment for x\lthou"g'ii'\Taik'at"o "doe's not possess a high school for boys, it ia fortunate in possessing a school for "girls of this character in the private establishment of Mrs. Ross-Watts, at The Lodge, Hamilton. On Tuesday last there was a gathering of friends of the pupils and Mrs. AVatts to witness the annual distribution of prizes by the Venerable Archdeacon Lush, which were awarded as follows :—Scripture (Bishop Cowie's prize), Miss Minnitt; certificate, Miss H. C.iwkwcll. General term work, Miss K. Jolly ; certificate, Miss Minuitt. General examination, Miss Nellie Sandes ; certificate, Miss Minnitt. Arithmetic, Miss Minnitt; certificate, Miss 11. Cavrkwell. Latiu, first and second certificates, Miss Wood and Miss B. Lyon. French, Miss Minnitt; certificate, Miss E. Jolly. Music, Miss Sandes ; certificate, Miss Jolly. Singing (Mr. T. Bell's prixe), Miss Wood ami iJiss B. Lyon. Sewing (.Mrs. Lush's prize), Miss Lyon and Miss Minnitt; equal, Miss G. Bell and Miss C. Bell. Overtures to "Zampa," "Figaro," and "The Wedding March" were played as quartettes on two pianofortes by the Misses Lyon, Cox, Sandes, and Flood, and the Misses Atkinson, Carey, Jolly, and Minnitt. A duet "Grand A r alse" (by Mattei) was played by the Misses Lyon, and the "Carnival de A'eniee" (Scudhofi) by Miss Sandes. Mrs. Searancko, iMrs. Von Stunner, Miss Lush, and Mr. Henry Edgccumbe kiudly sang a few pretty songs, and a handsome copy of hymns was presented to Mr. T. A. Bell by the singing class. Tk Awamuti-, Monday. On Friday, Tula, the native arrested in the King Country for stealing Father Luck's horse, was brought before Messrs. E. Parsons and W. M. Kay, Justices of the Peace, and committed for trial. Hamilton East and AVest arc, it seems, each bent on holding annual sports on Boxing Day, and as West Hamilton claims the local band, the services of the Awamutu band have been engaged for that day, by the committee of the East Hamilton Sports. |>Y TEI.EURAI'H.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton', Monday evening. Mr. Goodwin has arrived to conduct the examination for the district scliolarsnips tomorrow. Cambridge furnishes five, Te Awamutu four, Hnutapu one, Hamilton West three, and Hamilton ll'ast two candidates. In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, before Judge Macdonald, discharges were granted in the cases of F. J. Bendnll, C. C. Kookes, and Frank Barker. F. Crawford's case was adjourned till next Court-day, the Judge considering that, according to the statute, the debtor was guilty of fraudulent preference in paying Mr. MacCormick, solicitor, and witnesses' expenses in , the trial for slander case at the Supreme Court in July last, when insolvent, and a month before riling. He did so with no wish that the bankrupt might be harrasscd, but to enable creditors if they chose to look into ' the sale of the property by which the law cost* were paid.

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