RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1266, 2 May 1883, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

* 1 Tuesday April Ist, 1883. ! (Before W. H. Reveu, Esq., R.M.) BREACH OP STAMP ACT. John Gilmer was charged on the information of the police with committing a breach of the Stamp Act by giving a re- ! ceipt for £20 10s without affixing a stamp ! thereto, as required by law. Mr Jones for defendant admitted the charge, but pleaded in extenuation that defendant lived five miles from town and | had no stamp at the time of the transaction. His Worship said that as this was the first case brought before the Court he would not deal so rigorously with it. Ho did not think there was any wilful intention to defraud the revenue, but hoped that defendant would bo more careful for the future. Case dismissed defendant to pay 7s costs. Civil Casks. Cinv. Duffy.— Claim for £14 value of a horse saddle and bridle sold and delivered No appearance of defendant. Judgment for amount claimed with coats.

Johnatone v. Ah Chong £4 10s for carriage. Judgment for amount with costs Mohan v. M'Guigan.— Claim for £14, for wages due for work and labor done. Defendant paid £2 into Court in satisfaction in full of the claim. Francis Moan : I am a labourer. On the 26th September last year I entered defendant's employment. There was no terms fixed upon until I had been there six weeks. He asked me then what I wanted, and I told him 30s. a week was little enough. Ho said he thought 255. was quite enough, and that he would not give more I then told him I could not stop, and he said he would pay the 30a. for the past ; but he asked me to continue on for a time. I was doing general work. He gave me £5 103. on account. I made a mistake in one of .the bills I sent in to him. I charged £8 10s. instead of £19 10s. lam quite positive I went to work for, him on the 26th September. Cross-examined : I was under the doctor two months before I went to defendant. I did not ask defendant for work ; he asked me first. He did not take me in because I was in bad health. He never said he would give me 20s. a week until. I could- get a better place. Jpid not leave, defendant's employ for Seven or eight days, or a fortnight, during the time charged for. Was working more or less all the time. Never told Covell that I was only getting 20s. a week. I Never told M 'Williams that I was only getting 20s. a week. Had an offer of 30s. a week while I was in defendant's employ to go to work for Mr. M'Neill, farmer, and Mr. T. Moor, Reefton. This closed plaintiff's case. Francis M'Guigan : I know Mohan, and recollect his coming to see me. He aaid he was bad, and not fit for working. I told him he could come and stop tith me, and he did so ; and after four or five weeks or so had passed I asked him what he was going to charge. He was in bad health up to this time. He was working and cleaning the horses. He wanted 30s. a week, and I told him I could not give it to him, and he said he would go. I told him he could do so; he then said he would stop on. In the latter end of November he stopped away about ten days from my place. He took no food at my place, and did no work for me during that time ; believe he slept in one of the out-houses. I asked him to come back again lam certain I took him in the first instance purely because he was in bad health. Asked him for his time, and he told me had been with me nine weeks. By Mr. Jones : PJaintiff was sick when he came to me. I wanted a good deal of attendance. Cannot say where he was during the ten days. Judgment for £5 10s.