RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 7 June 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day. '"{Before J. Fulton, Esq., E.AI.) INSULTING A CHINAMAN. All Pou v. James Trennant.—Air Ward for the complainant. The complainant is one of the inhabitants of a cottage in the Chinamen’s garden between King street and Cumberland street, the boy Trennant is one of the pupils at the North Dunedin School, whose practice seems to be to make the Chinaman’s house a butt for stone throwing exercise. Several stones were thrown by different boys, but a witness named Brown, a lad of fourteen years of age, swore distinctly to seeing a stone thrown by the defendant hit the complainant. Other lads were examined, who did not see the stone thrown by the defendant hit the complainant but saw another stone thrown by another lad do so. The father of the boy wanted to make it appear that the evidence of the boy Brown was suggested by malice, 'His Worship said in the present case the master of the school should be requested to p misli the lads guilty of throwing stones, and he thought that would be {sufficient. Air Ward applied for professional costs which his Worship declined to allow. The boy was fined Is and costs of court.