MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 232, 8 March 1875, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, March 8. [Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.] DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. The following inebriates were dealt with : Win. Maxwell, fined 5s and cab hire; John Valpy, drunk and resisting the police, 10s ; Daniel Pasche, for a similar offence, 20s and cab hire ; John Hood, ss; John Shier, for being drunk and tearing the sergeant's jumper, ss, to pay damage, 12s 6d, and cab hire, 3s, Charles Smythe, ss; Hugh Smith, ss; John Parker, ss; M. Horan, ss; Michael Craddock, ss. DRUNK AND INDECENCY. James Moore, charged with being drunk and committing an act of exposure was fined 40s. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. Archibald McDugald, charged with being foundillegally on the premises cf Mr Murphy, Madras street South, at an early hour on Sunday morning, was fined 10s. VAGRANCY. Jessie Andrews, an old offender, was charged with vagrancy. The Park Ranger stated that he had found her on the previous Saturday lying on one of the seats in a half-intoxicated state. He had warned her to go away once or twice. Sergeant Kennedy knew th© prisoner, who was a disorderly woman, and had no visible means of support. Sentenced to one months' imprisonment, with hard labor. Henry Elliott, arrested sleeping on an unoccupied section in Armagh street, and charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. USING VIOLENT LANGUAGE. Daniel Pasche, charged on summons with having violently threatened his wife, was discharged on the application of his wife, and a promise that he would not do so again. FORGERY AND UTTERING. Alexander Leßas was charged on warrant with forging and uttering a cheque for £3O on the Bank of New Zealand. Chief Detective Feast stated that he arrested the prisoner this morning, and told him that he was charged with forging a cheque for £3O on the Bank of New Zealand, purporting to be signed by Howard Brothers, Rangiora, and afterwards uttering the same to Mr Warner, Commercial Hotel, on Sunday, 28th February. Showed him the cheque produced, when he said he could explain how he came into possession of it. Cautioned him, when he said he did utter it, and got £9 on it. That he had got it from two men whom he had previously known up country. He said he had tried to cash it at the Golden Age Hotel, and as there was something wrong about the date, he went with these men to the Clarendon Hotel to get the date altered, and afterwards took it to the Commercial Hotel and got £9 on account of it, and the men gave him £1 for his trouble. The prisoner said that the detective had made a mistake in his statement, as he did not tell him that he had gone with the men to the Clarendon, but had waited outside the Golden Age while they went themselves to have the error in the date rectified. Detective Feast asked for a remand, to enable him to produce evidence. Remanded until Monday next. ASSAULT. Joseph Rogers was summoned for assaulting his wife on the 4th March. The complainant stated that her husband had struck her on this date, He had treated her very unkindly on several occasions.

Defendant was ordered to find two sureties in £25 each, and himself in £SO, to keep the peace towards his wife for six months.