RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 13 July 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day.

(Before Janies Fulton, Esq., E.M.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Mary Allen, a habitual drunkard, was sentenced, under the Vagront Act, to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor, Willi m Phedorc, who had he ;n three times convicted at Oamani, was lined 20s or 48 hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness, and for a like offence, Bridget Keene was lined five pounds or for 14 days, imprisonment. BREACH OF THE LICENSING ORDINANCE.) M irshall and Copeland Were charged with carrying on the business of brewers, not b vmg paid the license tee prescribed by the Ordinance of the Provincial Council. The Commissioner of Police conducted the pro-edition, Mr Harris appeared for the defendants. The case was adjourned from last week, and was simply defended by Messrs Marshall and Copeland, to test the question whether they were liable to pay a licensefee to tbe Colonial as well as the Provincial Government. Mr Ha ris’s arguments were stated last week, and were, that the Provincial Ordinance passed three years’ ago was over-ridden and superseded by tbe Act of the Colonial Legis'ature passed last year—the provisions of which were not only not identical with, but were in some respects opposed to those of the Ordinance. The Commissioner of Police considered the Act of 1868 only to provide for the registration of breweries, not for licensing them.

Mr Harris asked the Magistrate to refer the question to the Attorney-General for an opinion. . . The Magistrate postponed giving a decision until Thursday. CHARGE OF CIIUELTV TO A HORSE. Two men, named Thomson and Mitchell, were charged with cruelty to a horse in Athol street. Mr Wilson for the defence. Mr Richardson, 1 eith street, the informant, said he was in Athol place on the 6th instant, and sawthetwopersonsaccnsed dragging a horse out of the mud. He went to the Police-station to get a policeman to go and see how the men were ill-treating the horse. They put a rope round his neck, and dragged him on to the footpath. It was not tied with a slip-knot. They dragged him alongside the footpath ten or eleven yards. The horse had been bogged. The cruelty was in his opinion dragging a live horse along by the neck.' Thomas Sinclair did not consider the men were ill-treating the horse. The horse was in the mud in the middle of the street, lying on its side, and made no effort to free itself. They used no more force th m was necessary. The case was dismissed. The Magistrate said the police could do no other than lay the information. INFORMATION’S BY INSPECTOR NIMON. Messrs Driver, Turnbull, and Cargill, were charged by the Inspector of Nuisances with allowing a nuisance in Hanover stre t, through defective drainage of the property. Mr Harris, for the defendants, explained that the property was once his, and in 1864 he made arrangements for thorough drainage of it, and expended thirty-five pounds under the inspection of the City Engineer. Since then, the City Corporation had taken away the original drain, and put one down the centre ot the street at a different level, and had neglected to c nnect (he drain pipes with the main sewer. Mr Barnes, the Inspector of Works, had been instructed to see the connection restored, but there was one from a cow shed that had been overlooked. The case was postponed. W. H. Cutten was charged with allowing a nuisance on his property in Great King street, through insufficient drainage. —Mr Cutten said the Corporation had caused the nuisance by their improvements, as they had dammed up the natural channel so tha r water could not get away.—lt was pointed out to Mr Cutten that so far from that being the case, the improvements had facilitated the drainage of the property. He promised to take steps to abate the nuisance, and the case was postponed for a week. Charles Stanton was charged with allowing water to accumulate on his premises in King street. The defendant promised to have the nuisance abated. The case was adjourned to Tuesday next.—Thomas Jones, negh clint; to keep his premises clean, in Stafford street, was lined 5s and costs—James Hanslow, for not having his premises drained, having, on the 28th June, obtained permission from the Corporation to do the necessary work, was dismiss'd —James Copeland was charged with allowing waste water to flow from she premises on to the footway in George street. Air i opeland said the fault »as with the Corporation, who had raised the street eight feet. Arrangement had been made for dra ning the property properly. Mr Copeland said that his tenant was really liable. The Inspector said it was not slop-water bit rain fall that he complained ot. The defendant was fined 2s 6d and costs, —Charles Lamb, for a nuisance, was fined 10s ami costs. INFORMATIONS BY THE TOWN BELT RANGER. Henry M'Cullock, for driving on the footpath in Serpentine Avenue, was fired 10s and costs. John NichoJ, riding a horse on the footpath in the same street, was fined 5and costs. John M ‘Kay, allowing a horse to be at large on the Belt, was lined 2s 6d and costs. Benjamin Shaw, f»r a similar offence, was fined the same amount. Donald Spedding, charged with cutting turf on the Town Belt, said that on a former occasion be had had permission to cut it from the Mayor, and iu his absence leave had been given by a member of the Corporation. He was lined 5s and costs.