RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2751, 11 December 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) A MIDMGIIT SERENADE. Reid v. Monson. —This was a charge of using provoking and insulting language. By the evidence of a witness, named Geo. Nelson, it appeared that Mis licid was awoke about midnight one night last week by Mrs Monson taking her place under her bedroom window, and using provoking and insulting language. The row was so great that he thought there was a lire, so he jumped out of bed and found Mrs Reid screaming “ police” out of her open window, and M<s Monson in her robe de null .bidding her keep her men away, and other delicate hints. Finding how the matter stood, he went for a policeman, but Mrs Monson prolonged the row so that it was impossible to rest. Mrs Monson said sbe was daily annoyed by the complainant, her children, and her chickens, and that some man, whom she connected in some way with these annoyances, had tried her bedroom window, and she was only seeking to iiroteci herself. She affirmed that Nelson was “a wicked man” for affirming she was nearly nude, as she had only divested herself of her boots. She was ordered to find one surety for LlO to keep the peace for three months, and to be herself bound in a like penalty, or in default to be imprisoned. Civil Cases. Roberts v. Macpherson. thirty-two weeks’ rent of a cottage. Judgment for plaintiff, LG Is—the difference being deducted in an account for coals. Daily Times and Witness Company v. Prosser.—LG, for advertising “Patent steam engines” three months. Judgment by default for the plaintiffs for the amount, with costs. Blackadder v. Parker.—LG Bs. Judgment by default for the plaintiff for the amount, with costs. Burston v. Humphry.—L3 10s, the value pf a brooch damaged in repairing, in the pourseof which several ornaments were broken and part or the brooch destroyed. A goofl deal of technical evidence was given respect: ing the effect of what is termed “ coloring gold.” His Worship was of opinion the brooch had been damaged to a certain extent, but not to the amount claimed. Judgment for the plaintiff, LI 15s (and to have the brooch), with costs.