PETTY SESSIONS.—Tuesday

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 588, 28 November 1871, Page 2

PETTY SESSIONS.— Tuesday

rßefore Joseph May, Esq., Chairman; and Messrs. Cheoseman aud Dargaville, Justices of the Peace.] Drunkenness.—One drunkard was mulct in the usual amount. BiusicHEs or Municipal Corporation Act —William Morley, for leaving Ins cart unattended, without having a chain passed through the wheel, was fined five shillings and costs.-Alexander Walkei-, for allowing a goat to wander,' w-.s fined live shillings.-Wilham Banks, for wheeling a barrow along a public footpath, was fined one shilling; and John Slattery, for allowing a hor.o to stray in Drakestreet, ' was fined five shillings and costs.George Hold-hip was charged with obstructing a public footpath by laying timber across it, without obtaining the petmission of the local author.ties.-He pleaded guilty, but said it was absolutely necessary for him to place the timber there as otherwise tys' busings could not go on, and he would be unable to load draye- There Was no properly defined boundary of Cuatomhousestreet.—Fined 10s and co,ts, and advised to ascertain the proper boundary.—Edwin Garr pleadei nob guilty to a niii; r V j~Sergoant Egan described tbe n v,->: o*. t,iie obstruction, and said that the lamp-posts were tbe proper boundaries. To defendant he 84id he had no official authority for stating these to ba the limits. The street, however, was .a orowded one, and the obstruction a decided inoonvenie^odJ—Dpfopdantjidd he had been instructed by the late Mr. Wynn, the sohoUo}? to the Town Counoil, that if he left 60 clear •feeb-of roadway he would not be interfered and this he had alwajS done. :TbeiCity Board had refused to repair that part of the road, and defendant and other private parties , : •" --•» an at their own expense.—Johu had •*«* - -•-. i..-i measured the VVatkins deposed that ne n-~ _~. width of roadway left, and found it to be o-. ' feet 4 inches.—Under the circumstances, the Bench recommended that the case should be withdrawn, and that the police should take steps io ascertain the proper width of the street. Breach op Municipal Police Act.— George Cook, charged wifch being away from his vehicle, pleaded not guilty.—Constable Naugbton deposed that he saw the horses bolt, and defendant run.oat. OLa, shop and pursue them. He could not say whether the brake was on.—Fined £2 and*costs. ] Breach op Licensing Act, 1871.—George A. .Avey. pleaded guilty of selliug liquor on Sunday, to a persdn not being a resident in his licensed bouse, or a bona fide traveller. -For this, his first offence, he was ; fined £5 and. costs.