RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, CAMBRIDGE. Friday.-(Before Mr. H. W. Northcroft, R.M.)

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, CAMBRIDGE. Friday.-(Before Mr. H. W. Northcroft, R.M.)

f R.M.), .f n UnfilUl Son. Henky Maoeb, charged with a breach of the Destitute Persons Act, was remanded for a month to enable the defendant to procure work, he being in destitute circumstances himself, and could not therefore contribute to the support of Ins mother.

Civil Cases. Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following ca«es :—Bates v. Took, claim £1 13s Isd and costs 17s ; R. Wright v. Thos. Cook, claim £1 lls Id and costs, £112s. In the case Millan v. Hanlon, claim £15 10s, Mr Campbell for plaintiff, and Mr Keesing for defendant, the plaintiff was non-suited after a hearing which lasted about three hours. Tn the case Goodfellow v. Moreton, Mr Keesiug for plaintiff, judgment debt, £8 12s Bd, the defendant was ordered to pay the whole amount with costs, 18s, by instalments of 30» every two weeks, in default one month's imprisonment. In several other small cases judgment^ffas confessed, and otherwise settled o^mat court. te

A Very Fishy Case. <• The Cambridge Resident Magistrate's Court was occupied for some time on Friday last taking the evidence of a number of witnesses in the case of Williams v. Richard Wright under the Resident Magistrate's Evidence Act, 1870. The case, which hast * been enteredjfor hearing at Auckland, is'one' \ in which the defendant, who is in business as * carpenter and cabinetmaker at Cambridge, is sued for aquantityoffish, whicK th*e plaintiff claims to have supplied to his'order at Cambridge. The evidence showed that, during the recent sitting of the Native Lands Court at Cambridge, the defendant was the proprietor of a business conducted by ■_ Messrs Cook and Evans in premises known as the "Waikato Toa." Mr Williams, the plaintiff, a fish merchant at Auckland, supplied the store frith large quantities of fish which had not since been , paid for. The defence set up was that the -vi defendant had not directly ordered the f'J goods, that some of the goods charged for *rA had never come to hand, and that others, ,-^ on coming to hand, were found so unfit for human food that they had to be buried. The native trade in the fish line, which the I establishment was carrying < on,, was I seriously injured through the supplies not 1 coining regularly *nd fresh to:haud.. £ I The case will come on for hearing At I Auckland. • H" 1

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