AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 416, 16 July 1880, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

.Tuesday, Jv|ly- 19. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., JR..M.,) ' CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. / / Frederick Arming and Richard Ferris were charged with the above offence.

They pleaded not.guiity. ;>••;, ; Sergeant Willis deposed that the accused', were brcaking*-irra horse on-Sunday, {Juno j 30, and that'Sovofal.of the residents in the J neighborhood of Jollie street had informed j him that they had used .the animal most cruelly. He called ' '" ' , William Thomas, who stated that' lie t had aeon tho accused on the day r.pecifW,d' breaking-in a hors3 ; part of the time they; were in Watkins' paddock, and part of tile' time on the Beach road ; one was sitting; in the trap using. a stick, and the .other, was on the ground using, a whip, b'ut'lio could not 3ay whether they were punish-: ing the horse urmocessarily. ' ' "' Robert, Noonan, being called, anid lie | remembered tho Jay mention c :d, Ho i);:«i | :.;'..o;i bolii ihe accused lb* ho.';;*- ! uio:-.[ ; in xacr. at one time had it ! i:..y. ;■;.•.;,'-. for Urn k<j;i)-.viurn-. (ho wlioio !

beat the horse about the head and used it so shamefully that the animal hadjto lay down to it.

George Armstrong was called ; he said he saw the accused breaking-ie the horse on the day in question ; they were*-whip-ping it pretty severely, bill-he"-coutfl' no>t say whether they be*t/t"rYe'anftnkl"unneceHnarily or not.,*v *"' ' •' l '"'.] "'; '• Charles Gutbwlpt gave evidence totliesame;effect. ? , ■', ..,■»'« ' ~l ' * \ The abc Used Stafc4kihat theyi>"liad been breaking-ih the -horse; for MX.Porter.' They had broken .it , the Saddle,-' and 09 the NgpeViotj-f day .one on which the alleged cruefty took place they had put the liorse into the trap for the first timo ; that it had gone well on that occasion, and they had not expected to experience any difficulty on next day, or, seeing it was Sunday, they would not have put the horse in harstubborn and refused,to move, so they had been obligfed to 'feWtf measures. ' They ; •had 'not hit th£ hoW oyerthe Porter-could -testify* that no harm had beea«caused to the anii ma I. . I |His "Worship stated that; Sunday was W ;the»propef day tor bfeakiri'g-iii horses} nor were the public streets ~th§ proper plaeej He would fine each'of 'the" Recused 20s and costs. j -f > , ILLEGALLT OW PREMISBB.'. P i T ->. f .*'.,,.' i» ' <"-i .' -\s''\\ 1. ~ I John WilhaniH, alias M'Farlane, Janies,Balfour, was;*charged). Sei|je|hi ; \yiilisj with illegally breakingj,'jintb Ihe premises of the Criterion JHotel. on Sunday •meaning lasf.' , '{^' ""./ ":"\ ';._,;".'.,- }' Prisoner said'-thaV'in' v ordof"to time of,the Court, he ( wou|d/ plead He had just come into Akaroa and' had had somedrinW i<■'»'!',!.'. »I<A \ Sergt. Willis produced a small boulder weighing SbnJe '561 b ? ■vvhich'h'e'* > found'iihmediateiy iifrdierridath l the windbw which-'the- prisoner had \ Smashed, and' though.whiph,he.had entered,«4nd;.hiej thought that it must be the instrument! with >which> the , had iperformed; the deed. He stated that the prisoner had; previously been convid'tcd'of no less thanj twelve different offences, and that he was, a thorough old vagabond. The Beneh i ■ sent'eri'ced , • 'hitri fc* 'tHreej months' imprisonment with/hard labor. j U ~,. i Civil Case. , ); .., .. S I .John Nopnan v. Hugh Wilson,—CUim,! £13, for goods sold. ' After hearing the : evidence, the Bench gave judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs. j The Court theti adjourned. ~ !