RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 32, 6 March 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TvESDAifi Mahq/i ftrH, 1879. (Before Edward Shaw, Esq^., lt.M.) $,A.I!CNNt, William Randall wns charged on the information of tho polieo with tho larceny of a boltlo of brandy fr,on^ the Club Hotel,. Broadway.. Sorgoant Novillo conducted fcho pjfo« sooution. Defendant was unrepresented. Mary M'Korrow : I am proprietress of tho Clu,b Hotel, Hcofton.. I rocolleot Saturday last, ?nd March. I wns in my house on that dato. I snw Randall going out of tUo baridoor. I missed a bottle of brandy off' tho sholf, and! thought ho had somothing undor hw oont, wxd I watched him go round Mr Gissing's corner. I wont n{tor him and aakod Kirn, for the brandy, and ho took it from uttdcr hia ooat and handed it to rao. Tho brandy is valued at 4a 04. I then relumed to tho houso, and Constablo Williams onllod in and asked mo if I would givo the- man in charge. I said I did not wish to do so. I oould not any whothor Randall was drunk or sober ; ho did not appear drunk. Saw the pviuonor on the Wodnosday pvovioua. Ho came through to tho kitchen and asked mo for a glass of brandy, and I refused to givo it to him.. Prisoner, in answer to tho usual quca tion, said ho know nothing whatever about tho matter. Ho did not evon know, whoro tho hotol was, He had boon drinking tor somo days previously. Constablo Williams * I arrostod defendant. Ho did not «pponr drunk. Ho no id ho was very sorry for it, Ia reply to the Bonoh, dofendant said ho was a carpenter, working at Blaok'fl Point. His Worship said tho oflfonoo waa fully established, and dofondant appoarod to be quito conscious of his guilt.. IjJndor oil tho oiroumabanooa tho Bcnoh would no,t infl,iot a hoavy ponnUy.. to, be imprisoned for six hours.. Cixil Cases.. Gitloos and Nottol v. Powclil .—Claim for iJKX for moat supplied, Edward Gittoos : lam a partnor in tho &rm of £tottcl and Gittoos, butchers. The atnouuj; sued for is du.e to tho partner* ship. Tho defendant said bo did not disputo tho debt, but au udvortisomont; liad apt pearcd in tho Inanguhua Tinjoa signed by Gtorgo Nottol, oij,o of tho partners,, cautioning all persons against paying any debts to tho plaintiff Ho (defendant); was quite ready to nay tliq cuaQuat but

did not want to ho mado to pay it t wioo. Tho plaintiff said that Nottol had told him that ho (Nottol) had not authorised tho advortisoment in question. Mr ll oid as amious curia* asurred the Court that tho ndvortiaomont in question did oorao from NotteK His Worship, said ho would adjourn tho ease fop ono wook ta givo plaintiff an op* portnnity af producing tho authorisation of Nottol.