AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Tuesday, Oct. 21. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., R.M.. and ■ Br Westenra, Esq., J.P.) , '" DRUNKENNESS.* ■ : was charged, with ,the above offence, and also , with, an act of indecencyih a'public place. The fifsf ca.se Was dismissed, and for the second! la; find .ofj 40s arid costs, "was,:* imposed. , . . , . ' '* ■ ■ ...... : . , BREACH OF LICENSING ACT. Adams, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was charged with supplying liquors on Sunday, Oct. 11. ' i ' ■ Sergeant Willis deposed that on the day in ijuestion he entered defendant's house. He found the bar open, and several men drinking. One was the worse for liquor. For the defence, —Eagar, barman at the .Criterion, stated that the men who obtained the liquors represented themselves to be travellers. He was a stranger in the place and had no means of knowing that t hey were not so. Fined 20s and costs. BREACH OF BOROUGH BY-LAWS. A. Rodrigues was charged with a breach of the above, by obstructing the footpath in front of his hotel. It appeared that defendant had had the door of his cellar open for the purpose of effecting some repairs. To prevent people from falling in, he had erected a barricade of cases, &c, round it, so that pas-i sengers had to go-out into the street to get past.; ■:;.•..•;■•;••.•■ , ■ ■ ■ ■. ■ - v : Defendant pleaded that he did not know he was doing- anything Wrong. What he. had done was for the safety of the public. The Bench informed him that he should have' first obtained the leave of _ the Council. The case would be dismissed with a caution. NEGLECTED CHILDREN. Susannah Tozer, aged 9 ; Emma Tozer, aged 8; and Charles Brough, aged 3; were brought up as neglected children. ' ' Sergeant Willis gave evidence as to the conduct of the mother, of the children.
The Bench ordered the two girls to be sent to the Burnham Industrial school for six and seven years respectively ; to be brought up in tne Roman Catholic faith. The little boy would be restored to his mother, but her being allowed to retain him would depend on her future conduct. . . '•'.,.■■■
The Court then adjourned
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 2
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350AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 2
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