Resident Magistrate's Court. — Yesterday afternoon the following civil eases came before the Court: — Ford v. Hair.—A claim of £6 13s 4d, wages as cook on board the Amherst. Plaintiff had bean engaged at £5 per month, but not giving satisfaction the master had reduced his wages to <£3, which he refused to accept. Several witnesses were examined, and judgment given for £2 13s 6d, with 7s 6d costs. Ford v. Henderson —Defendant, the maie of the Amherst, was charged by plaintiff, the cook, with having assaulted him on va rious occasions. The charge being proved, defendant was lined £1 and 13s costs, one half of the fine to be paid to complainant. This morning, Thomas Ellis was charged before 11. Stuart, Esq., J.P., with having obtained from Thomas Morrison, by false pretences, a watch valued at <£6. Thomas Morri son deposed ; The watch produced was given me on the 3rd March by Mr Da vie on behalf of Mr Shepherd,' to be re paired, and returned by first chance. One week after, the prisoner, who is in Davies' service, obtained the v atch from me, saying Shepherd had author ised him to do so, and that I was to charge it to Davie. He gave me a re ceipt (produced) for the watch. I afterwards saw the watch at Swan's. I got it and returned it to Shepherd. G. H. Swan, publican, deposed : One Sunday morning, about a month since, prisoner came to me with the watch. He said he had been on the spree and had no n oney ; he wanted £2 to go up ohe Taupo line to finish a contract. He said the watch had been won at a lottery at Davies' and that he had paid £6 for*it. He said he would repay me in a week. I lent him j£2 on the watch. I afterwards gave the watch to Morrison. William Shepherd deposed to the circumstances of the case as already published, stating that he never authorized the prisoner to receive the watch. In answer to a question by the prisoner, he said he had never men tioned it to him. The prisoner was then cautioned in the usual manner, but declined to make a statement. 