DISTRICT COURT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 893, 18 September 1879, Page 2

DISTRICT COURT.

(Before Judge Kenjsy, and a Jury.)

This Day.

CIVIL SIDE. Michael Mulloqly v. W. Brassey : — ■ Oase withdrawn. Graham & Co. v. Hapi Kiniha : — Claim, £173 15s sd. Case allowed to stand over until to-morrow. W. H. Tucker v. J. S. Macfarlane, Yen. Archdeacon W. L. Williams, and George Lawrence. Claim, £170 6s. Id. To come on as first case to-morrow morning. CRIMINAL SIDE. W. Ratcliffe (Trustee) v. Peter Sorry : — Fraudulent concealment of property under the " Fraudulent Debtors Act, 1878." The case had been heard at length, and already reported m full m our columns m px*evious issues. Mr. Brom field for the Trustee ; Mr. Nolan for the defence. The evidence had not been all taken at the time of onr going to press. In the case 'pi. Ratcliffe v. Graham, Crawford, and others, charged with forcible entry upon the hotel premises of Alfred Walker, bankrupt, tlie charge was ordered to stand over tmtil the next quarterly sitting of the District Court, owing to there not having been sufficient time for the framing of the indictment.

We trusHfthe people residing beyond the confines of the provincial district of Hawke's Bay will be able to estimate at their true value " the three cheers for Sir George j3rey " that are reported to be given at the close of every public meeting. Such an idiotic termination of an otherwise sensible meeting may afford a certain amount of satisfaction to smallminded men who, by dint of noise, desire it to be thought that the majority of the assemblage is m a state of political intoxication. It does not take many people to make a hulla-balloo ; and when it is known that from village to village the same individuals travel about to attend meetings for the purpose of creat ing a false impression, no value whatever need be attached to a report that states ' • the assemblage broke up ' with three cheers for Sir George Grey/ We do not believe for a single moment that oufc of the whole body of Napier electors fifty could be found who would demean themselves by cheering for Sir George Grey. We are glad to think that the feeling that self-respect is too strong m this community to allow any large number of its members to make themselves ridiculous at the instigation of half-a-dozen Ministerial tools. — Mercury. Mr. Green, at his meeting of Port Chalmers electors, was presented with a small grindstone, as a memento of his axe-grinding procl ivifcios.