RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHARMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4092, 7 April 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHARMERS.

(Before T. A. Hansford, Esq., R.hf.) Friday, .April 7. " '

Assaults, —John Burke was chained witfe assaulting. John Wilson on the ■ railway plat - form on the BOth nit. Prom the evidence it; appeared that the plaintiff was drunk, 4 andl the defendant, Acting in the discharge of hia duty, put him off the raUway puitform.. The case was disn'dssed.—Peter Peterson, on remand, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth angton, at ihe Maori Kaik, on* the 28th January.—Amelia Robinson deposed that on the day in question, hearing, cries from the accused’s bouse, she. went there and found {‘ho plaintiff i Sitting on the table, with her 'jbanda tied behind her back, and the other end of the rope fast to the —Margaret Davis corroborated Robinson’s statement, and, in answer to Mr Joyce, stained that she’had heard the plaintiff say she .did not Ifeih the child, but never heard use tbbehts.— After Mr Joyce addressed!. the Bench at some length, he called Mr P; ttry, missiohary, who informed the Bench t.hat he “wept” over the neglected state of tiVs plaintiff’s infant, and he testified to her qua rrelsome disposition.—Mrs Party, wife of tlVo last witness,. gave the plaintiff anything but? a respectable name.—Arthur Woodbam stat ed that’hi had frequently seen disturbances jb etweeh the parties, and upon one occasion heard the plaintiff threaten to hit the del 'eudant j with a piece of wood Upon anotheir occasion he heard plaintiff say she would' cut the child’s throat from ear to ear.—His "Worthip &- marked that at first the case appeared a very serious one, and he had oleemed it : necessary to sift the matter tTb. oroughly. Defendant’s violence was caused I iv plamtaff threatening to split hLmdownwttm an axe. ■ o doubt she felt her position, being unmarried, very keenly, and the thr eats were caused by remorse. He should order the defendant to be bound over to keep the peabefor twelvemonths, himself in I SO, and two sureties in LlO each; Peterson tlo-Tetain . the child and hand over the whola of the woman’s apparel to her. , ,