RE-IDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.
This Day. (Before Messrs Thomas Tayler and W. Thomson, J.P.s.) OBSCEXE LANGUAGE. Strong r. Lawton, was struck out for nonappearance. BYE-LAW CASES. John Thomson was fined 5s and costs, for allowing cattle to stray ; and Farquharson 2s (3d, for drawing timber across the footpath with a horse. CIVIL C'SE. Atkinson v. Millar.— his was an action brought by the Adjutant of Volunteers to compel delivery of a Government rifle and accoutrements. Evidence was given that Millar, ibough warned on more than one occasion, had failed to deliver the articles sued for. He was fined 20s and costs, and an order for the restitution of the property was made. The Bench said that they imposed a light fine because it was the first case of the kind that had been brought in the Province; but should any future case come before them they would not be dealt so leniently with, as the authorities were not to be set at defiance, as had been done in this instance.
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Evening Star, Issue 2823, 6 March 1872, Page 2
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171RE-IDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS. Evening Star, Issue 2823, 6 March 1872, Page 2
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