MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2365, 31 October 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. i ; ■ (Before bis Worship the Mayor, and W. H. Reynolds, Esq., J.P.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.' ( Mary Forbes, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Stafford street, bh the cve- 1 ningof the 29th inst., was fined [Lo, or 14 days. Same, for using obscene language ift the same place, was sentenced to thro? months imprisonment. Kate . Farra, for being drunk and disorderly in Princes street, L 5, or 14 days. ■ DRUNKENNESS. ,' James Crawford, for this offence, was mulcted L 5, with an alternative lof ten days in gaol. Mary Thompson, brought up on aeharge of deserting her female child, r on- the, 2oth of July last, in Christchurch, was remanded to that place, ; J SUMMONS CASES. Walter Muir, for allowing two bows to wander on the Kaiko'rai road, Mornington, fined 5s and costs. Robert Scrimgeour, was charged with allowing a horse to stray. Case dismissed. Elizabeth Bills, for keeping a dog not properly registered, was remanded until Friday. Mary Ann Austin, charged with keeping three dogs without licenses, stated that she would make away with them if necessary ; remanded until Friday, in order that she might produce satisfactory proof that the dogs had been destroyed. Joseph Meade, Joseph Reid, Archibald Bailie, Clement Jones, Alexander Cairns, and O. Sutton, were all charged with keeping dogs without licenses. His Worship the Mayor, in reply to some of the defendants who had registered their dogs after the summons had been served, said that they laid themselves open to a heavy fine in not doing as advised by the constable at once. The Bench would not be hard upon the cases this time, but he wished to impress upon them that if brought up again on a similar offence, the fine, which was a heavy one, would be inll cted. Wm. Dalzell, for having a quantity of building materials iuMaclaggau street without a lightat night was fined 5s and costs. -.Donald Robertson, for rebuilding a shed and making sundry alterations, without having given the usual notice to the City Council, was fined a like amount.