AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 125, 28 September 1877, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

* ■- Tuesday,. September 25,1877. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., R.M.)' ILLEGALLY Oil PREMISES AND MALICIOUS . INJURY TO PROPERTY. David Wilkie was charged with this offence. Sergt. Ramsay gave evidence to the effect that on the night in question he saw the prisoner the worse .for liquor at the Pigeon Bay Hotel. On the morning after, the stable door was found burst open, the padlock broken, and the prisoner was discovered asleep in some straw in the loft. William Roberts, the stable-keeper, gave corroborative evidence. The prisoner stated in defence that he had walked a long way to Pigeon Bay on the occasion, for the, purpose of seeing Barlow's circus, which was then performing there, and had taken too much to drink. He remembered nothing whatever about it. He would state tjiat it had been the custom for men to be; sent up to the loft to sleep, when they were drunk, or wanted a bed, as there was tjo accomodation for them in the hotel.! This was in Mr Flanagan's time, not!during that of the present proprietor. ! He had known 14 men.to.be stowed away in the loft. The Bench said itj was too much the custom for publicans Jto make men drunk, and then turn them ojit like dogs.

There was another, charge against the' 1 prisoner for vagrancy, which was die- < missed. .■--.." . 1 For malicious injury to property, the < prisoner was fined 20s and costs, with Is < for damage done to the padlock, or in i default 48 hours. The-fine was paid. 1 CATTLE TRESPASS. ' John Thomas, for two offences of this nature, was fined 5s each and costs. J Civil Cases. Hawthorne v. brown. In this case, which was a claim for £32 ' 10s, on some timber detained by defendant, ' judgment was reserved to the 28th in- ' stant. '' WALLACE V. T. BROUGH. Claim, for £8. Judgment given, by default, for amount claimed with costs. Wednesday, September 26.1877. drunk, and using obscene language. J. Gildea, for this offence, was fined 20s or in default 48 hour's imprisonment. The Court then adjourned.