RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GREENSTONE.

West Coast Times, Issue 1973, 26 January 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GREENSTONE.

Wednesday, January 24. (Before M. Price, Esq., R.M.) CIVIL CASES. Constance Smith v. Charles Wilson. — Claim £0, cash lent. A sot off had been filed for £4 18s for horse hire and feed, aud for assessing value of plaintiff's property during a former lawsuit; also, 12s expenses as witness for plain tifi in that case. It appeared that the original debt was £7 odd, but plaiuliff had allowed certain deductions for the set off to defendant, and only claimed £0. Defendant stated that having only received an account for £5 he thought thia sqt off conic] stand against that amount. Ilia Worship remarked that that was rather a curious way of paying debts. His Wors ip erased one item for valuing property, as no agreement had been ma.le beiwmi the parties at the time, for such labor, and allowed 12s amount paid by del' ndant to wages men during his absence at the Court upon the former suit, the set off to stand against the original debt of £7 which defendant had acknowledged. Judgment, £4 Is 6d ; cost«, £1 Is. Constance Smith v. Augustus Webster. —Claim, £7 3s 6d for goods supplied. Defendant admitted his liability, but pointed to the fact that the bill he had Ibrmeily leceived and the one attached to this summons did not tally. The difference, however, was only Bs,* which plaintiff

accounted for by the fact of having omitlcd ' one item, which defendant's wife upon being sworn acknowledged. Judgment, £7 6s ; costf, 19?. Caroline Dick v. Augustus Webster. — Claim, 15s 6d. Settled out of Court. James Taylor v, Alexander Angus. — Claim, £6 15s 6d. This was a fraud summons. Defendant stated his inability to satisfy the claim, and said he was a miner, oud had only been making on an average from his claim £2 10s per week. His Worship ordered 10s per week to be paid into Court, first instalment to be paid at once. Previous to his Worship leaving the Bench, and so soon as defendant had left the Court, one of his former mates named Donald M'Lean, stepped forward and informed hia Worship that defendant had committed perjury, inasmuch as he (M'Leau) could prove that the claim yielded as much as £1 per week per man. After the Court rose, M'Lean seemed unwilling to bear out his statement by laying nn information, and attempted to give a different version of the story. Subsequently, an information was laid by the police, who have taken the case in hand. Angus was arrested in the afternoon upon the charge of perjuiy, but was admitted to bail to appear on Thursday, Ist prox., himself in £50, and two sureties in £25 each.