RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5555, 17 January 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Thursday, January 16. (Before T. A. Manstord, Esq., E.M.) THREATENING LANGUAGE. Samuel Johu Hill was charged, on remand, with making use of threatening language towards Charles Hunter and Dorothy Hunter. The Hon. Mr. Buckley appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Allan for the defendant. Dorothy Hunter deposed that on tho evening of tho 14th accused called on her and said that her husband had better leave the billet he was now iu. That he (accused) was as low as he could be, and he did not care if he was sent to the gallows. He would take Hunter’s life if he did not leave the employ of Mrs. Hill.

Samuel Hunter deposed that he had every reason to be afraid of the accused. On a previous occasion accused came to his shop and tried to take possession of the shop, and attempted to turn witness out. Mr. Allan asked that the statement of the accused should be heard. Accused then stated that he never threatened to take any man’s life. He admitted calling on Mrs. Hunter. His reason for so doing was to try and clear up a scandal which he {believed had been originate! by Hunter, to whom he attributed all his late trouble. He further stated that if Hunter was afraid of him (accused) he would leave Wellington and go to his friends in Australia. Mr. Allan thought that the accused had pursued a very bad course. His Worship considered that tho accused had no ground for the statement made by him, and ordered him to enter into his own recognizance of £SO, and find two sureties of £25 each to keep the peace for six mouths. REFUSAL OF DUTY. John Young, an articled seaman belonging to the schooner Laurel, was charged with refusal of duty. His Worship expressed surprise that the accused had been in the lock-up, stating that he had previously intimated tnat iu such cases an information should have been laid. The police stated that the accused had been given in charge by the chief officer. As, howeyer, the charge was not pressed, and accused promised to return to tho vessel, the case was dismissed. CIVIL CABES. Judgment Summons. —Te Aro Theatre Company v. 0. Moody, claim £lO ; ordered to pay in seven days, or be imprisoned for one month. Judgments for plaintiffs were given in the following eases :—P. Briggs v. W. Eastwood, claim £1 18s. 6d,; E. O. Easby v. Mrs. M, P. Burke, claim £24 16s. 2d.; J. W. Mason v, F. Cooper, claim £8 6s. Id. ; Te Aro Theatre Company v. O. Moody, claim £4O; same v. T. Whitehouse, claim £SO ; same v. M. Quinn, claim £3O ; W. Sykes v. George Tonks, claim £8 18s. City Corporation v. C. F. Wilton.—Mr. Travers appeared for the Corporation ; Mr. Edwards defended, and contended that the plaintiffs must be nonsuited, as no proper demand had been served on the owner of the property.—His Worship held the objection fatal, and nonsuited the plaintiff, with costs.