RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4046, 14 February 1876, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Monday, February 14. (Before T, A. Mansford, Esq., R.M.)

- Drunkenness. —William Bossey, belonging! to the eh;p Pltve,, and Alexander Lyall, were! each fined 10 , or in default twenty-four hours’? imim-nment. ■

Breach of the Peace. -Oscar Pitcher,--cook of the ship Olive, for behaving inla manner! colcu/ht-d to provoke a breach of the peace.' was fin d 10s. " ;

Disobedience of Lawful Commands.—, John Flatten, Richard Penhington, John; Leonard, Michael Devon. Edward Middleton,' George Ward, and Augustus Bain, on remand' from Pr;d iy, were charged by Cuthbert Vans,; master of the ship Oxf-’d, with ref sing dutVon the 11th instant. Captain Yxnx deposed that t’-e whol«of them were articled Seamen,; and that on the merniur of the 11th they cam©’ aft a-d asked bim for their discharge, which Witness refused to give them. Tey then? stated they would do no m<>re ; work on board. Th® prisoners askedCaptainVaux several quee-’ tionsconcemin,' bending sailrand being oom-i pelled to go aloft without tbrtr ooffe -. One of the accused further stated the chief officer had challenged him to fight. His Worship said if the men had any complaint to make they could have demanded permission to come on shore for that purpose; they had not done so, audit was evident this was a concocted plan. He ordered them to ba*imprisoned and kept at hard, labor fqrfonr .weeks. • ' -