RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday, June 15.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 2777, 16 June 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday, June 15.

(Before Major Edwards, E..M.) A NOTORIOUS CHAKACTiiK, Mary Aikman, a character of the lowest stamp, was brought up for being drunk and disorderly on the morning of the loth inst. She pleaded guilty to the charge. Sergeant Reid informed the Bench that i this was her third appearance within one month, for this same offence. His Worship sentenced her to 7 days' imprisonment with hard labour. I CIVIL. Beauchamp v Dnun. Thia was an inter-pleader summons. Mr Hutchison appeared for the plaintiff, and informed the Bench that the case had J been settled out of Uoui't. The case was struck out accordingly. McGregor v Stracban— Claim £40 7s. Oliver v same— Claim £37 ss. Mr Hutchison appeared for plaintiffs. Judgment went for the plaintiffs in these ' two cases, with costs ; to he paid within ! fourteen days ; it not paid within that time, a warrant to be issued tor the defendant's apprehension, and to undergo one month's | imprisonment for each charge.

' Stone v Strachan— Claim £22 12s. Sullivan v same — Claim £73 Bnrke v same— ol-uni £10 3s. Jones v same— Claim £4 L(ja 3d. Gaimhren v same — Claim £10 3s. Mr Hutchison appeared for the plaintiffs in tho above cases. Judgment for the plaintiffs, by default, for tho amount claimed, together with costs. Tribe v Watt. Adjourned until Friday, the 18th inst. Ganyhren v Ret 3. Mr Hutchison appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Fitzherbert for the defendant. Adjourned until Friday, 18th inst. Samuels v Dunn. This was an action to recover £57 6s, for rent, insurance, <fee. Mr Fitzhorbert appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr CaliVey fur the defendant. Mr Cattrey raised an objection to the mariner in which the summons was made out, and pointed out that hia Worship co .ikl not hear the case as shown by the summons served on the defendant. Mr Fitzherbert argued at length agaiti.it the objection, but his Worship decided in Mr Caffrey's favour. Mr Fitzherbert informed the Bench that it was the fault of the Court that such an error should have taken place in the making out of the summons. His Worship stated that he would arrange for the hearing of the case on Saturday, the 19th, free of costs. Purnell v Leydon — Claim £16, for work and labour done, and material supplied. Mr Hutchison appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Hodge for defendant. James Purnell deposed- -That he erected an ornamental fence on defendant's property, at the comer of Bell-street and St. George's Gate ; he drove all the posts from 2ft. ljjin. to 3ft. • his agreement was only to drive them 2ft.; the posts were quite firm when he had finished the fence ; it was nearly all sand where he drove the posts ; sand is not so good for keeping posts firm as clay or earth ; defendant pulled about the fence more than ouce ; when he had the feuce half finished, defendant came to him about the fence not being steady, and the posts not firm enough ; he told him to come when the fence was finished. Cross examined by Mr Hodge — He had an argument with defendant ; he did not make the fence straight owing to a cutting being just at one side of it; he considered the fence was made stronger by not making it straight. diaries Perkins deposed — That he had examined the fence the day after it was finished ; it was firm then ; lie did not think that it could have been built better ; the posts were sunk in sand ; sand is not so good as earth for holding a fence up. Cross-examined by Mr Hodge— The fence waa not straight ; it was 15 or 18 inches on defendant's property. Jas. Leydon deposed — That he was a publican, and that he made an arrangement with plaintiff on the 20th May to erect an ornamental fence round his property in Bell Street and St. George's Gate ; it was to be firm in the ground, and new posts were to be put into the ground ; he went to see the fence when in course of erection, but he was ordered away, and he went ; two of the posts are old and rotten, and several are not tinn. Cross-examined by Mr Hutchison — He tried the posts to see if they were firm, and they were not ; he tried them more than once. Henry Clarke deposed — That he examined the fence in the morning and found it loose ; if it iiad been erected properly it should not be loose ; he found several of the posts loose, and two old ones quite rotten at the bottom. C toss-examined by Mr Hutchison — He knew that posts driven in sand would not hold as well as if they had been driven in clay • the fence mighl have been pulled about Edward Bond gave corroborative evidence to that of the last witness. His Worship gave judgment for the plaintiff for i>ls 18s aud costs.