MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2971, 27 August 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before His Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. .Tamos C. Millar was finedTCs or 4 8 hours* imprisonment. ASSAULT, Andrew v. Andrew.—Case dismissed. BREACH OF LICENSING ORDINANCE, Job Wain, jun., was charged with permitting card playing in his licensed house on the 12th hist. Bergt. Mallard asked to bo allowed to withdraw the case for the present, as the witnesses for the prosecution could not be got at, they having left town. M r Hagfeitt, who appeared for the defendant opposed the withdrawal, saying that he could not allow it to go forth that his client had been guilty of the offence imputed to him. The case was dismissed. BREACH OF THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE ORDINANCE. John Tuck appeared to answer three informations, charging him with three specific breaches of the Ordinance, in causing animals to be slaughtered without the necessary notice having been given to the police. It appeared from the evidence of MountedConstable Crcagb, who is one of the inspectors of slaughter-houses for the Dunedin district, that the beasts were slaughtered at the yards of Mr C. Moore on the 15 th instant, aud that no notice of his intention to cause them to be slaughtered was lodged in the police-box, as he himself searched the box. He found'the notices in the box on the 23rd. His Worship dealt with two of the cases, which he considered itrovecl. In the one, four head having been killed, a fine of L2O was imposed ; in the other, five head having been killed, a fine of L 25. In the third case, Mr Harris, who appeared for the defendant, raised an objection as to the insufficiency of the proof of the appointment of inspector, and his Worship took time to consider.

BYE-LAW CASE. Alex. Herbert was fined 20s and costs for driving without sufficieul reins.