AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 394, 14 May 1880, Page 3

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, May 11. (BefoTe J. Aylmer, E*q., R.M.) CHIMNEY ON FIRE. Martha Tihodes was charged with allowing the chimney of her bouse to catch fire on Sunday, April 25. jflined 5s and costs. FURIOUS RIDING. 'CharleH Haylock was charged with riding at a fnrious pace on April 20. Defendant said he wae only riding at a canter. *B, Miasen,. Clerk to the Court, Rtated that he saw'defendant on the day in question ; that be bad ridden up to the Court-house, and was in such a state as to Tse hardly fit to keep his seat. Defendant urged tliat if he had been in the state described it' wonUl have hee.n impossible for him to.have ridden at all. Ambrose Rhodes, being ..called, ..deposed that he had teen witnesH. cantering. ; his h oreo on the day mentioned; that, from what he had been told he had thought defendarft' drunk, and had taken bis horse from him. "i\ ' . . „ •, V - Fined £5 and , (3OBtB. ' ,;,,,-„.:.::, RIDING ON FOOTPATH. . ; , .:.• Charles 'Hnl|r^ 9 ■ ffiar«ed,: t with riding on the fdptpath opposite Mr Citron a. chop. yr«*v r .k':- ; :- ■>■•<■>■> ■-•;_ ; ; ... , Fined 5s and costs. ; ■ ILLEGAL SALE OF SPIRITS. Joneph MLean, captiin of the e.s. Akaroa, wee charged with selling liquor at Pigeon Bay without a license. Mr J. D. Garwood appeared ftR agent The Bench ruling that Mr M'Lean must appear personally* the case was remanded till Tuesday, May 18. Civil Case. F. Lelievre v. Funnel and Ciurragh.— Claim £10, for removal of fence. Mr Nalder appeared for plaintiff. Evidence on both Bides was received as to whether the fence was on plaintiff's property or on the road, and it being proved that in either case it was against the inatTUCtionp contained in the specifications for the contractors to remove any material without permission from the officer in charge of the works, which permission had not been given, the Bench gave judgment for the defendants to pay at the rate of £1 15« per chain for such of the fence as had been removed, with the option of replacing the same, and costp, with solicitors fee. ' The Court then adjourned.