POLICE AND WALDEN’S COURTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 411, 4 March 1870, Page 2

POLICE AND WALDEN’S COURTS.

ALEX \NDKA. Resident Magistrate’s Court. Monday, Feb. 2S. (Before V. Pyke, Esq., 11.M.) L. Cameron was charged by the police with using obscene language, and tbe charge having been proved, was fined 40s. A second charge of resisting the police in the execution of their duty was gone into, and the evidence being conclusive, the prisoner was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labor. M'Naughton v. Wells.—Settled out of Court. Hensburgh v. Dewcs .--Settled out of Court. Warden’s Court. (Before V. Pyke, Esq., "Warden.) The representatives of several companies on the Butcher’s Cully line of reef applied for protection until such time as the prospectors, who are down seventy feet with their shaft and are driving at that depth for the reef, have struck it, and thereby show in what direction it lies. They stated that as yef they had been unable to find the reef, or any indications of it, in the many shafts they had sunk and argued that to continue sinking and driving would he a waste of labor, time, and money from which no one would benefit. The Warden said be plainly understood the position of affairs, hut considered it would be unjust to the prospectors if the onus of finding the reef was thrown entirely oil their shoulders. If the old Bendigo system of assisting to develop the reef wasactol upon here he might grant the applications. At any rate he would grant protection for a week, to allow time for his suggestion to he acted upon. The applicants expressed themselves perfectly satisfied, and said they would see if anything could be done and acquaint the Court with the result. Several other applications having been dealt with, the Court adjourned.

CLYDE. Resident Magistrate’s Court. Tuesday. March 1. (Before VincentPyke, Esq., R.M., and J. D. Feraud, Esq., J. P,)

Police v. Williams.—Breach of Licensing Ordinance by retailing spirits without a license. The defendant pleaded that he kept a dairy and sold milk, that he had

never instructed his wife to sell whisky, and that the bottle of whisky found on the table by tho police when they entered his house was a bottle out of which he had been assisted before leaving home in tho morning, and which had not been removed. The Bench administered a caution, and inflicted a penalty of 40s. and costs. Police v. Riley.—Exposing liquors for sale. The defence was that tho house was a private one, and that the liquor was for private use. Thc-police said that the house had been licensed, that sounds of drunken revelry ni htly issued from the house that it was situafcef'in the centre of the town, and was a nuisance. Defendant was fined £2O and costs, distress to issue immediately; in default, two'months’ imprisonment. Police v. Insley. —Breach of Licensing Ordinance. Mr. Brough, who appeared for the defendant, raised a technical objection against tho information, and the proceed, ings were quashed.

Goodman v. Foote.—No appearance

George v. Ganlley.—Claim £5, damage done to trees and shrubs in an enclosed garden by gsats, the property of the defendant. The damage was proved and also that tho goats were not registered. Judgment for 40s. and costs. Tho Bench, after giving judgment, said the man who planted a tree in this troefcasJcountry was a public benefactor, and the man who kept goats to destroy f hat tree was a public malefactor. This was the first case that had come before him, (but, he Lad heard-numerous complaints, and was determined to put down the nuisance with a strong hand. C. Nciper applied for a publican’s license for his house in Butcher’s Gully. Mr.W. L Bailey appeared in support of the application, which was granted. Mr. W. L. Bailey applied, on behalf of Mx A. Petty, of the National Hotel, for permission to keep his house open on Wednesday night for ..the purposes of a bali. The Bench expressed great unwillingness to comply with* the request. Ultimately leava was granted until 2 o’clock on Thursday morning.