RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT PORT CHALMERS.

Monday, June 21. (Before T. A. Mansford, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness.— Donald M‘Nauty was fined 20s or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, with hard labor; Stephen Henry Pope, Henry Watts, Frank Fisk, and John Corrigan, sea men belonging to the ship Earl of Zetland, for being drunk at the railway platform yesterday afternoon, were each fined 10s, or twenty-four hours. Frank Fisk was also ordered to pay an a “ fi ne . °f 10s, or twenty-four hours • and John Corrigan, ss, or twelve hours, for obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. A Stowaway.— Henry Grimble was charged upon the information of F. Jones, master of the s.B. Bruce, with secreting himself on board the vessel from Timaru to this port. From Captain Jones’s evidence it appeared that shortly after the vessel left Timaru, the accused came aft and informed him that he had no money to pay his passage, as he had been shipwrecked and was hard up,—ln answer to his Worship Captain Jones stated the passage money was dOs. Mis Worship informed the accused that he was liable to a penalty of L2O, but he did not wish to be too severe upon him. A fine above the passage money must, however, be inflicted, and he ordered the accused to pay 1.3 and costs, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for ten days.