RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3737, 13 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Saturday, February 13. (Before T. A. Hansford, Esq,, E.M.) Drunkenness. John Fein was fined ss, or twenty-four hours’. i\Tpvr BOBEYINa , L - uvpt7r - Commands— James fr , a . nn 'y as charged by Captain Crocket, of the ship City of Vienna, with refusing to obey lawiul commands on the 12th instant. —John Crocket deposed that the accused was an articled seaman. On the morning of the 12th instant the chief officer told him to clean out the longboat, which he refused :o do. Witness called him aft and asked the reason of his refusal, when he replied that he did not think it was a lit job for him. Accused had given him a groat deal of annoyance during the time the vessel had been in harbor.—His Worship here remarked that there was an entry in the logbook on tlm . r th instant that the accused a-.cea permission to come on shore to see a magistrate.—ln answer, witness explained that the accused had been sick since that time until " . Hth lusuaui:, when he came on shore.—ln acnence, accused stated when he asked the captain to let him come on shore to see a magistrate he told him to go up aud down the ruizenriggmg. He obeyed, and the captain, each time he passed, langned at him, asking him whether it was cola or snowing up there, and refused to let him come on shore to see a magistrate. In answer to the Bench, Captain Crocket did not denyaccused’s statements.—His V ‘U’ship remarked that Captain Crocket had no right to keep him going up and down the jigging, and ought to have allowed him to conic shore \yhen he applied to sec a magistrate. He (his \\ orslnp) would, therefore, dismiss the ciue, and order the accused to go on board. Obscene Language.— Mary Ann Sutton, for using obscene language on lac reclaimed land on the 10th in.it., was fined 20s or foity-ewht hoars, J °