RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. F. E. Wright, Esq., J.P., and Wm. Bannatyne, Esq., J.P.)

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. F. E. Wright, Esq., J.P., and Wm. Bannatyne, Esq., J.P.)

James Wilson was charged with drunkenness, and, it being a first offence, was fined five shillings. A man named Spicer was similarly charged, and it being also a first offence, was leniently dealt with ; penalty, five shillings. Henry Death, cf the Ilutt, charged FrancU Phillip with the illegal possession of a door, prosecutor's property. Mr. Death was the owner of an empty cottage, the door of which had been wrenched off the hinges, and was afterwards found at the back of prisoner's premises, which were distant from the cottage about a quarter of a mile. John Farrelly, a youth of 13, deposed to having seen Phillip take the door off the hinges ; he resided with him then, but did now lire with him ; the door was left in the cottage ; he saw it afterwards in defendant's in defendant's watereloset, and told Death of it. (The door was produced in court, and identitied by witness.) Is nephew to Phillips, and, with his father and family, came from Auckland at detendant's expense ; left Phillips thirteen weeks ago ; Phillips prosecuted hia father for an assault ; he also sued his father for rent, and recovered it ; another action by Phillips against his father was to be tried that day at the Hutt ; witness lived at Charles Death's tor thirteen weeks. Lawrence Farrelly, father of the last witness, saw the door early in June in Phillip's watereloset, where it remained until the 7th or Bth of July, and never saw it afterwards till to-day. Witness was cross-examinudbyMr.BorlasG, with a view of shewing the prosecution was the result of a conspiracy among the Farrelly s. Policeman Brady deposed to having found on Mrs. Swainson's land, about forty yards from Phillip's premises, the door produced in Court. The prisoner was committed for trial.