RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3414, 30 January 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Friday, January 30. (Before Hugh M'Dermid and Dr O’Donoghue. J.P.s) Assault. —Henry Huilen was charged by Oluf L. Monks with assaulting him by kick*nß s . tr^n 8 him on the 16 th instant. Mr Mansford, for the complainant, stated that as the previous case was an indictable offence and this was only a common assault, he was quite will! g, if the defendant was. that the case ah'>uld rest upon the depositions taken in the former case, as it woul leave ihe Court tune. The defendant, agreeing to this course, then stated that he had been grossly, insulted by the complainant previous to the scuffle. The Bench roti.ed for a few minutes, and upon returning into Court stated that they were of opinion that it was an aggravated assault, and that as the defendant had been punished already by having to appear so often at ti-e Court, they would inflict a fine of 50s and oosts, or seven days’ bard labor. The fine was shortly after wards paid abusive Language. — Jacob Houghlaa, a naan of color, was charged by Sarah >olomon ;with having, on the 27th inat., made use of the following words to her, “That she had ,lM>d with a black men in Dunedin,”—Mr

Mansford, fpr the defendant, denied tb« charge, and Submitted that if a case could be brought at all, it should be as a civil action for damages in : the Supreme Court.— >arah Solomon stated she wa-. in'Wilson’s butcher’s, shop on the 27th im>t., wiure the defendant was chopping at a block. $e B;dd “ Good day ” qo her two or three-tunes and she replied that she had no time to talk to a black man ; whereupon hq insulted her by saying, “ {no, but you lived with a black man for eighteen months.—The Bench told the complainant she could bring, a civu action against Doui*blas, but it was not a case for that Court. They therefore dig missed it.