MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2296, 15 September 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tms Day, (Before his Worship the Mayor, and J. T. Thomson, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. George Williams was discharged with a caution, Robert Dowling was fined ss; and Mary Hamilton L 5, or fourteen days’ imprisonment. The last-named defendant was sent to gaol for three months for being a habitual drunkard. DESERTION. Charles Green was sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment for deserting from the ship Delhi. NEGLECTED CHILD. Martha Home, on the application of the pel ce, was sent to the Reforma ! ory for twelve months. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. William Wheeler, a lad about n-'neteen years old, was charged with using abusive language, and resisting Constable Bain while in the execution of his duty. On Friday night the prisoner and a number of lads congregated about the North Dunedin Drill Shed, and during the progress of the concert being he'd there, amused themselves by alternately throwing stones on the roof and indulging in language of anything but a refined kind. Remonstrance had not the desired effect, and Mr Bain’s services being called into requisition, he arrested Wheeler, who however managed to escape from his clutches. Bain pursued him, but the lad being the fleeter footed of the two, and assailing him with stones, he had to give up the contest. The Bench considered both charges proved, and fined the prisoner on each 40s, or a week’s imprisonment—the sentences io be cumulative.