MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 153, 30 November 1874, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

♦ CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, November 30. (Before Wm. Rolleston and H. P. Murray Aynsley, Esqs, J.P.’s.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Wm. Hutton, for being drunk and committing an act of exposure, was fined 40s; Wm. Amiss, for drunkenness, was fined 10s; Wm. McKay, 20s ; Thomas Ward, 20s ; and Thomas Cockerell, 20s. LUNACY FROM DRINK. Walter Baker, charged with this offence, and who had threatened the life of his wife, was remanded for eight days. [Mr Bowen and Mr L. Walker hqre joined the magistrates on the Bench.] BEING NEGLECTED CHILDREN. Mary A. Ferrick, John Ferrick, Thomas Ferrick, and Matthew Ferrick, the eldest being only twelve years of age, were charged with being neglected children. The mother of these children had received a sentence of six months imprisonment on Saturday last. The children had been found by chief Detective Feast in a most neglected state in a house in Lyttelton street, and had received food from a neighbor since their mother’s incarceration. The children were committed to the Industrial school for seven years, to be brought up in the teaching of the Catholic church. LYTTELTON. Saturday, November 28. [Before W. Donald, Esq., R.M.J DRUNKENNESS. W. H. Derry, charged with this offence, was fined 40s, or 96 hours’ imprisonment. The fine was not paid. REFUSAL OP DUTY. George Smithbourn, accused of this offence, was ordered on board.