RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3739, 16 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, February IG. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., It,M,) Drunkenness.— Thomas J :; ti c i ss, with the option oi forty iv, . ..mus.’ imprimerit; John O’Douuoglme i-.s, or three .lays’ Negescted Child.—Louis Thornhill, five years of age, was charged with being a neglected child. The child’s father was dead: and the mother had deserted the boy, ana gone to Blueskin. He was sent to the Industrial School for the usual term, and ordered to be brought up in the Church of England persuasion. Assault.—John Heggertv was charged on remand with assaulting Constable Vernon at Green Island on the 11th inst. -The charge had been adjourned from Saturday last after evidence for the prosecution was taken, to enable the accused to bring witnesses.—lnspector Mallard now said that he had gone to the gaol and that accused had given the name of John Jenkins as a witness. A constable had been sent to Green Island, but no person answering to that name could be found.—Accused was committed for trial. Couldn’t Put up with His Mother-in-Law. Edward Poole was charged by his wife, Margaret Poole, with deserting her and his two children and leaving them destitute.—Defendant explained as the grounds for his so doing that he could not agree with his wife’s mother and father, who lived in the house with him. y as going to Oamaru on Thursday and was wi ling to taae his wife and family with him and to give the “old people” some money, but he could not live with them.—His Worship said that very few men could stand a mother-in-law and dismissed the case. ’

Breach op the Buu ding Regulations, Patrick O’Brien was charged, on the information of John M'Laren, with contravening sec--1 0 . 1? Mof the building regulations iu erecting a building, tue external walls of which were of timber and within eight feet of another building.'V Mr E. Cook defended,—As complainant was stating his case, Mr Anderson, solicitor to the Corporation, came into court and said that he had to ask for an adjournment, as the case was one affecting the public interest. His attendance was impossible owing to Ins being engaged on important private business: his l»a>■;inn- (Mr Cud.VJ -.vvi O"' <!’ v.”,vn ; and .lay -her <;oUoe 1, wn o jir; lieei. a • u iou ia the matter ami was to have attended, was engaged at the Supremo Court—Com plaimmb objected fjo an adjournment and said that defendant was noted for the manner in which be set the law at defiance. —Mr Anderson replied that thei-e was a public right involved, and, iu the public interest, the case should be adjourned.—After further discussion, the matter was adjourned tor a week.