MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2342, 4 October 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day, (Before liis Worship the Mayor, and G. G. Bussell, Esq., J. P.) DRUNKENNESS. Alexander Thompson and James Kay were each find 10s ; William Stevenson, 20s, or 48 hours’ imprisonment; Elizabeth Johnston, L 5, or 14 days’ imprisonment; Kdward Sanders, who did not appear, had his bail forfeited. OIISCENE LANGUAGE. Thomas Clark and Kate M‘Donald, for this offence, were each line I LlO, or in default three months’ imprisonment. MINOR OFFENCES. A charge of being illegally on the premises of the Australasian Hotel, Maclaggan street, preferred against P- ter Smith, was dismissed with a caution. —John Brown and Charles Bennett, two lads aged about 14 years, were charged with wilfully breaking three panes of glass at the North Dunedin School. The evidence adduced showed that the damage had been wilfully done. A few evenings ago the boys were observed to go up to the school windows and deliberately break three of them with sticks, and then run away. Mr Hardy, the Secretary to the Dunedin School Committee, stated that the boys were in the habit of breaking the window's of the North Dunedin School at night, and so great was the destruction become, that he had been obliged to bring the matter under the notice of the police. No less than GO squares of glass had been broken within the last month, and on one occasion IOD had to be repaired. The lads’ mothers were in Court and said they had repaired the windows broken by their children, and if this case were overlooked, they would take care the boys did not cause any more mischief. The Bench imposed a line of os and costs, and intimated that a repetition of the offence would 1)0 visited with the infliction of a much more severe punishment. ALLEGES) CASE OF HORSE STEALING. Thomas Kelly w’as charged with stealing a horse, the property of one James Donaldson. The ease, if anything, was a mere drunken freak, and the absence of felonious intent was very marked. It appeared that the defendant had been staying during the last w'eck at the Australasian Hotel, Maclaggan street. Usually ho was an exceedingly quiet and well behaved man, but when intoxicated, was hardly accountable for his actions. He appears to have, while under the influence of drink yesterday evening, taken the horse from Mr Donaldson's stables, ridden through

the town on it, and left it this morning in Machaggan street. The case was dismissed with a caution. evading toll. John Frazer was charged with evading payment of toll at Waikari, on the 2oth hist. The evidence, however, discloses no such intention on the defendant’s part, and the ease was dismissed with costs. Mr Bathgate appeared for the defendant.