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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Legal

Legal.

The Stipendiary Magistrate's And Warden's Courts at Nasseby are held in a wooden building situated in Derwent Street. The premises include the court room, magistrate's room, clerk's office, public offices and witneses' room. Sittings of the District Court are held twice in the year, and the Magistrate's and Warden's Courts once a fortnight.

Mr. James McEnnis , Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden at Naseby, was born in Tipperary in 1839, and brought up to farming. He came to Melbourne in 1862 in the ship “Mistress of the Seas,” and arrived in Otago in the same year. After a few weeks on the goldfields, Mr. McEnnis removed to Canterbury, and joined the Mounted Police, went to the West Coast and was promoted to be a first class sergeant in 1865, being stationed at Hokitika, Okarito, Stafford and Ross. He received the appointment of clerk of the Court at Greenstone, and after being stationed in the Grey Valley, No Town, Maori Gully and Dunganville, he was appointed Clerk of the Court at Kumara in 1881. Mr. McEnnis succeeded the late Mr. S. M. Dalgliesh at Naseby in May, 1900.

Mr. Samuel Mead Dalgliesh , sometime Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden at Naseby, and District Land Officer for the Mount Ida Division of the Otago mining district, was a native of Glasgow, where he was born in 1837. He was educated in Liverpool, England, went to Victoria, in 1854, and joined the Victorian Constabulary as a cadet. During his period of service, which extended to 1857, he was present at the Ballarat riots and the taking of the Eureka stockade. Mr. Dalgliesh was in India during the time of the Mutiny, but owing to an attack of cholera, he was invalided and returned to the Colonies in 1859, when he landed in Sydney. In the following year he arrived in Auckland, where he had some experience in the Maori disturbances. In 1861 he joined the Otago constabulary under Mr. St. John Branigan, and served for ten years chiefly in charge of the gold escort and in the Dunstan district, where he resigned his position as Inspector in 1870. In 1875 Mr. Dalgliesh joined the Justice Department as Clerk of the Court and Receiver of Goldfields Revenue at Cromwell. He was afterwards Clerk of Courts and Sheriff at Hokitika. In 1890 he was promoted to the position of Resident Magistrate and Warden. Mr. Dalgliesh was married in 1887 to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Richards, of Wakatipu. He died at Naseby, on the 9th of May, 1900, after a short illness.

The Late Mr. S. M. Dalgliesh.

The Late Mr. S. M. Dalgliesh.

Mr. John Terry , formerly Clerk of the Stipendiary Magistrate's and Warden's Courts and Receiver of Goldfields Revenue and Mining Registrar for the Naseby district, was born in Nelson, in 1866. He was educated at Westport and Nelson, and joined the Government service in 1883, as a cadet, in Westport. After one year's service Mr. Terry was transferred to Reefton, where he filled the position of assistant clerk for four years. In 1888 he was appointed clerk of court at Lyell, whence, five years' later, he was transferred to Greymouth as assistant clerk; and he was appointed to Naseby in October, 1896. He is now (1904) stationed at Blenheim. Mr. Terry was married in February, 1892, to a daughter of the late Mr. M. H. Kittson, and has two daughters and one son.

Cutten And Hjorring (Ernest Cargill Cutten, B.A., LL.B., and Percy Cecil Hjorring), Barristers and Solicitors, Derwent Street, Naseby, Bankers, Bank of New South Messrs Cutten and Hjorring are solicitors to the Bank of New South Wales at Naseby and St. Bathans, and to the Maniototo County Council, and the Naseby Borough Council. Mr. Cutten was born in 1867 in Dunedin and was sent to England when he was eight years of age. He received his early education at Christ's College, Finchley, London, but on returning to the Colony, in 1879, he had a further course of training at the Dunedin High school for about three years, and graduated at the Otago University, at which he took his degree as B.A. in 1892, and LL.B. in 1896. He was with Messrs Haggitt Bros. and Brent in Dunedin during the years 1887 to 1889, and 1891 to 1895; for the years 1889 and 1891, 1895 and 1896 he acted as judge's secretary at Dunedin. He was a member of the Peninsula Navals from 1885 to 1888.