AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 502, 6 May 1881, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

♦ Tuesday. May 3, 1881. Before Justin Aylmgu, Esq., R.M C. Alger, F. Aldridge. and P. Maguire were charged with assaulting W. Fleming. | It appeared that the three defendants were j together in Alger's house late in the even- j ing of the 18th April. A dispute arose apparently hetween Fleming and Mngnire. ! Fleming was put out, and, su'coi'duii; to ' his account, the three (k'tViKlu,;;:- .-iftor ' him. Alger caught hold ,>''. him and i knocked him down, and v<,;!:; v.n (lie i ground he received one or ii)i.iro biow:- , - or c lrick-s, but. he could not say irvu; v/hom. ~ Thero was no d'.mht about (h<; i';-.oL \\\-\l j '' prusi'outor hail received a most unuierutui thrashing, and had been quite disabled t from doing any work for some days, Alger's defence was that prosecutor had r

been put out of his liou.se ahout midnight, and that an hour and a half afterwards he had returned and thrown a lanre stone through the window, nearly upsetting a kerosene lamp. This was denied on ,Q;ith by the prosecutor, who sworo that the assault immediately i oil owed the ejectment, and no evidence was called in support, of the statement. The Bench lined the three defendantseach 20.s and costs, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. DRUNKENNESS AND INDECENCY. Luke Perham and Barbara Williams were charged with drunkenness and indecent conduct. The evidence is unfit for publication, and showed the conduct to have been of a most disgusting nature. The police pressed for a severe penalty. A number of children were about. His Worship said that if the charge had been brought under the Vagrant Act, defendants wouH have gone to gaol straight. They would each be fined £5 and costs. CATTLE TRESPASS. G. P. Sadler, for allowing cows to wander, was mulcted in the usual 5s and costs. G. J. Black was charged with driving horses to the pound during prohibited hours. Defendant pleaded ignorance of the bye-law constituting the offence. He was impounding the horses from the Manse grounds, which, it appears, is just outside the borough boundary. He contended that the bye-law was an absurd one. An animal might gel into your garden in the morning, and you would have to allow it to remain there all day before pounding it. The Bench dismissed the case with a caution. The Court then adjourned.