RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6273, 20 May 1881, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Thursday, May 19. (Before E. Shaw, Esq., R.M.)

Drunkenness. —Mary Morgan for being drunk in the public streets was fined 55., or in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Vagrancy.—Harriett Sutliffe was charged with being a vagrant. Accused said she was leaving Wellington, and under the circurat,ances was discharged. Protection Order.—Ellen McCarthy applied for a married woman’s protection order. She accused her husband of illtreatment and refusing to support her. His Worship granted the application and ordered her husband, Charles McCarthy, to pay £1 a week for her support. civil oases. Judgment Summonses. —G. Clarke v. J. K. Manning, £2 2s. Mr. Gully for plaintiff. Order made for defendant, who did not appear, to pay the amount in fourteen days, or in default three days’ imprisonment.—Baker Bros. v. C. E. Belcher, £6 19s, To be paid at the rate of £2 a month, or fourteen days.—D. McKay v. D. Moore, £l2 4s. Mr. Gully for plaintiff. Order for 20a. a month, in default seven days’ imprisonment. The other cases were—Thomas Williams and others v. R. S. Ledger, claim for £IOO, estimated value of some quartz specimens out of the Golden Point Company’s claim near Picton. Mr. Conolly, jun., for plaintiffs ; Mr. Brandon, jun., for defendants. After a long legal argument, and a quantity of evidence having been taken, judgment was given for £SO, or a return of the specimens to the plaintiffs.—Drexler v. Crew, claim for board and residence amounting to £4 10s. Judgment by default.—Frankel v. Wi Mahupuku, £ls 13s. By default, with costs. Mr. G. Bishop for the plaintiff.—Coffey and Dixon v. Meihana Topu, claim for £7. Judgment by default.—Baker Bros. v. J. McKinney, £6 2s. Judgment by default, with costs.—Judgments for plaintiffs, with costs, were also given in the following cases:—A. Volbraeht v. O. M. Rosenberg, £8 os. 6d. and costs ; J. Coogan v. Edward Wyllie, £6 16s. 4d.; same v. John Mclvor, £8 35.; Greenfield and Stewart v. Farrel, £4 17s. Id.; Stevenson and Smith v. Peter Smith, £42 15s. 6d.; S. Levy, rate collector, v. E. J. Campion, £l4 19s. 3d.; same v. John Compton, £6 2s. 61.; same v, J. Haddow, £3 35.; S. W. Alcorn v. T. Egan, £2 19s. sd. In the case of Levy v. C. Pharazyn, a claim for £7 6s. 3d. for alleged balance of rates unpaid, Mr. Travers appeared for the Corporation. It was shown to be the result of an error in the amount placed on the assessment notice, and after some argument the matter was compromised by a judgment being given for £1 13s. 9d.