RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3754, 5 March 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, March 5. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness. Henry Jarden was discharged with a caution; James M'Kinlay was nned os, with the optiou of thiee days* impnsomnent; John Travers, 10s, or three days’: Benjamin Farra, 40s, or fourteen days*. Neglected Child - • Alice Lee was charged by the police with being a neglected child.rier lather, who, some years ago, kept the United States Hotel, Walker street, was now dead *. After his decease, the mother , again mamed, but had since also died, and the child now wandered about the streets, having no place to go to.—She was sent to the Industrial school for seven years, and ordered to be brought up m the Church of England form of persuasion. Fraud.— Charles Main, described by the police as a very bad boy,” not appearing when called on to answer to a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences, a warrant for his apprehension t\ as granted.

CIVIL CASE. N. EGOth v. Finlay and Co.-Claim, LSO. B/o being damages sustained through breach of contract ©n defendant’s part in failing to carry out a contract to purchase and remove timber from plaintiffs land, and L2f. damages to the ground by reason of defendant’s negligence in c uryi ig out the agreement.—Mr Harris for plamUft, and Mr Stout for defendant.—Judgment was reserved. °