LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6818, 24 September 1883, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

BANKRUPTCY.—Meeting oe Credit Re.3ohS'..Hibbs Long. —The first meeting of creditors for; the election of a trnstee was huld-on Saturday morning in'the Supreme Court Building^" The debtor was describedas a butcher, carrying on business in Auckland. The liabilities were set down afc ; £147 Is Id, and'the assets at £7.9 7e Bd. Mr- ; Thomas MacfFarlaue was elected trustee. '. 'POLICE COURT.— Saturday. ' : [Before H. G. Seth Smith, Esq., 8.M.1 Deuskenness. —Four persons were punished for ordinary offences. ', ' ".,}* Assault.—William A. Smith was charged with assaulting James A. Campbell by striking him. on the face and head repeatedly. Mr. Tole appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cotter for the defence. . The prosecutor,, a farm and dairy-keeper, deposed that oa . Sunday last, on Richrciond-road, he met de- , fehdaht and a' man named Hicks. Defendant'stood in iiout of prosecutor,, and asked . ' hini if he was as good a man to-day as he was last week;"' Witness replied he was. Hβ ■• i challenged him to n—ht, but witness replied 1 'tijathd.wonld not fight on Sunday. Defendant said he had forgotton that, and turned to go away, , saying that both witness and hia bidlher'were rogues: Witness told him he must not insult him, or he would give him in charge,"upon which defendant turned to witness and struck him repeatedly in the face. In cross-examination .witness said that three or".. four days previously defendant,.came .into,- the milking-shed and witness > and hia brother of. being rogues. . He said a day previons hehad lost a , whip,' , arid asked witness it he knew anything about a whip. He said he ,did .not. 'In the shed, defendant read a paper,.. giviug notice to John Campbell to give up. the whip which had been given, to him by a lad named Elder, or he would take legal proceedings. Witness ordered him toclear out of the shed, and as he would not go;'...witness shoved him out. This was what he understood defendant to mean, when he; ■accosted hini on Bichmond-road. He knowwhen defendant read the notice that his brother had the whip, but witness did not tell ;,him so. ■■ He afterwards sent the whip back to Elder. There was another clsimanfc for the whip. Job Gibbs gave evidence as to. what took place between the parties. After some words passed between them, Smith; struck Campbell twice in the face,, and bled him. Campbell did not strike Smith, 'at'all. Ernest Andrew and William Cook,, two lads, also gave evidence. The. latter was'in plaintiff's employ. The defendant then gave his version of the affair. The magistrate held that an assault was proved, and imposed a penalty of 10a and costs. ..