RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Thursday, August 8. (Before E. 11. Carew, Esq., R.M.) T. Horrigan v. J. Laverty.—ln this case the summons had been forwarded to Dunedin for service, but the defendant could not be found, and it was therefore returned not sarved. Edward M'Fadden v. Samuel Mather.— This was an information charging defendant with having, at Adams's Gully, on the 6th instant, made use of threatening and abusive language towards the plaintiff; wherefore the plaiuLiff prayed that defendant might be bound over to keep the peace.—His Worship said the information was improperly drawn : it disclosed no offence'which the law recognised as such. Unless the' defeudant gave his consent to the information being amended, the case must be dismissed. —Defendant said he wished to employ a lawyer, and would prefer to have the present case dismissed and a new information laid.—Case accordingly dismissed, without prejudice. Drunk and Disorderly.— For this offence a stranger was fined 10s. Billiard License.—The application of Alfred Short for permission to keep a billiard-table on his licensed premises at Garrickton, was granted.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 144, 13 August 1872, Page 6
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175RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 144, 13 August 1872, Page 6
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