RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3552, 27 November 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day.

(Before Captain Preece, R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Foreman Strong, charged with haying been drunk and disorderly in Hastings yesterday, was fined £1 and costs, with the alternative of 43 hours' imprisonment with hard labor. Tuaho (a native) pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Napier on Saturday, and was fined 5s and costs, which amount was paid. , WIPE DESERTION. William Thomas Sullivan was charged on warrant with having, at Wellington, deserted bis wife Emily and one child, the latter being of the age of eleven years. Sergeant Burtenshaw gave the prisoner a good character, and said he understood that Sullivan at the time be left his wife came here looking for employment; he had some means on him at present, and was in work. The prisoner said the work was only temporary, and would be finished in a day or two. His Worship remanded the accused until 3 o'clock this afternoon. BREACH OP RAI_WAI BTE-LAWS. Hugh Aplin pleaded guilty to having, on the 18th instant, entered a railway carriage on the Napier line of railway while the the train to which it was attached was in motion. Defendant made a statement in extenuation of his offence, and the Court imposed the reduced penalty of 10s and __ COStS. STONE THROWING. ._. Alexander Mcßae (a young lad) pleaded guilty to a charge of stone throwing on Monday evening last in Emersonstreet. The evidence showed that the boy, along with others, had been throwing stones at one of the public urinals, which suffered damage in consequence. His Worship severely reprimanded the boy, and inflicted a penalty of £1 and 7s costs. The dangerous practice of stone throwing was, he said, becoming too common, and an example would be made of anyone guilty of such gross behaviour. The Court then rose.