MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 314, 15 June 1875, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, June 14. [Before G. L. Mellish, Esq, E. M., and His Worship the Mayor.] [The following is the report of the Appeals against the City Assessment from the time of going to press yesterday.] C. T. Ick, auction rooms, Cashel street, £l3O, confirmed ; Henry Matson, no appearance ; Benjamin Hale, shop in Cashel street, £l5O, reduced to £130; A. R. Greyke, five cottages, Worcester street west, £IOO, reduced to £52 ; Harman and Stevens, offices, Hereford street, £IOO, con' firmed ; R, Chudley, no appearance ; R. H. Wood, house, Cambridge terrace, £79, reduced to £75 ; Mytton’s Trustees, vacant land, Cashel and Montreal streets, £2O, reuced to £l2 10s ; Thomas Tuersley. no appearance; Wm, Kirkwall, Royal Hotel, £3OO, reduced to £250 ; W. Cudden, no appearance ; Sarah Webb, house, Tuam street, £52, reduced to £45 ; W. J. White, house and shop, Tuam street, £SO, reduced to £SO ; Ur Nedwill, no appearance; Richard Walker, four houses in Tuam street and Durham street, one reduced from £26 to £23, one at £45 confirmed, two, £22 each, reduced to £ls each ; Henry Flavel, no appearance ; James Booth, saw mill in Tuam street, £3OO, reduced to £250 ; two houses at £SO each, reduced to £3O each ; Robert Russell, two cottages in St Asaph street, £52, reduced to £25; B. Midgeley, house and shop in Tuam street, £35, reduced to £25; Thomas Williams, house and buildings, St Asaph and Tuam streets, £9O, reduced to £75; R. Walker, two houses in Tuam street, one at £lB, and the other at £2O, both confirmed; F. G. Hawley, two cottages in St Asaph street, £3O each, reduced to £25 each; Michael Hamilton, no appearance; James Hogg, stable and land, Tuam street, £4O, reduced to £26; England Brothers, two houses in St Asaph street, £6O each, reduced to £52 each; offices and workshop in Tuam street, £SO, confirmed; J. Fleming, no appearance; E. C. Minchin, house and shop, Lincoln road, £45, reduced to £3O, house, £2O, reduced to £ls; land and cottage, £3O, reduced to £26; George Ghisnell, land and cottage in Lincoln road, £4O, confirmed; Samuel and Jane Dickey, four houses near Antigua street, £3O each, reduced to £25 each; J. W. Treadwell, land facing South town belt, £2O, confirmed ; three cottages, at £26 each, reduced to £2O each; land, South town belt, £3O, and cottage, South town belt, £3O, put together at £3O; two sections land, £2oeach, confirmed; Mrs McGowan, house, £2O, reduced to £ls; A. W. Bickerton, no appearance; James Henwood, no appearance; Nicholas Welch, two cottages, off Antigua street, £26 each; Roger Deacon, no appearance; H. P, Baker, no appearance; W, Dearsley, double lean-to, St Asaph street, £3O, reduced to £2O; A. H Denham, no appearance; T. W. Bartram house, Montreal street, £SO, confirmed ; house, Montreal street, £6O, reduced to £SO; J. B. Banks, house and brewery, Antigua street, £149, reduced to £80; Thiele’s Trustees, cottage, Montreal street, £26, reduced to £2O; W. H. Smith, no appearance; Elias Willis, house, St Asaph street, £4O, reduced to £3O; Wheeler and son, shop and house, Colombo street, £llO, confirmed ; England Brothers, no appearance ; George Willmer, house and land, Durham street, £BO, reduced to £7O; Thomas Williams, house, Montreal street, £IOO, reduced to £80; laud, Montreal street, £SO, confirmed; M. M. Wyatt, double cottage, Salisbury street, £52, reduced to £4O; Charles Allison, no appearance; Walter Hood, house, Salisbury street, £3O, reduced to £2O; T, J. Gee, no appearance; Joseph Lee, house and shop and cottages in Peterborough street, two at £26 and one at £25, reduced to £2O each; John Williams, no appearance; Thomas Tombs, five cottages in Kilmore street, £125, reduced to £9O; M. M. Wyatt, house and shop, Colombo street, £6O, reduced to £4O; H. Marks, four houses, Kilmore street, £26 each, reduced to £2O each; cottages, Kilmore street, £52 each, reduced to £45 each; P, G. Hawley, double cottages, Kilmore street, £3O, reduced to £26; James Boot, lean-to and vinery, Cambridge Terrace and Kilmore street, £52, reduced to £45 ; B. W. Dudley, house and land. Oxford terrace, £26, reduced to £25; John Hill, no appearance ; W. J. Ball, lean-to, Oxford terrace, £2O, confirmed ; Joseph Lee, house and shop, Manchester street, £75, confirmee*!; Thomas Bruce, stables, Gloucester street, £35, struck out, as the stables had been removed; Robert Macfarlane, no appearance ; James Patten, no appearance; D. W. Hamil ton, two houses in Gloucester street, £45 each, confirmed; Charles Burmeister, two houses and shops, Gloucester street, £9O, reduced to £7O ; T. M. Gee, house, rooms, and land, Gloucester and Worcester streets, £l5O, confirmed ; D. W. Hamilton, house North town belt, £35, reduced to £2O; house and land, £6O, reduced to £52 ; John Kirk, no appearance ; J. P. Jameson, house and land, Manchester and Colombo streets, £l5O, reduced to £l2O ; A. Cowen, no appearance ; M. M. Wyatt, house and land, Colombo street, £6O, confirmed ; H. Allchin, house and laud, Manchester street, £3O, confirmed; Robert Cl”'dley, no appearance ; J. B. Dale, land, Manchester street, £25, reduced to £2O; H. Spicer, house and laud fronting North town belt, £BO, confirmed; Alfred Lines, land corner of Manchester and Salisbury streets, £2O, reduced to £10; C. C. Bowen, no appearance; J. E. Anthony, garden, North town belt, £B, reduced to £3; cottage, £35, confirmed; George Wheeler, cottage on

Nn>fh town holt, £3O. reduced to £25; Mrs Macfarlane, cottage, New si root, £2O, reduced to £2O, James Tyson, cottage, New street, £23, reduced to £ls; E. J. Lock, no appear* ance; John Tully, no appearance ; H. W, Lee, no appearance; W. H. Newman-* no appearance ; Alfred Innes, no ap« pearance; George Clark, no appearance; J. W. Ablett, two houses, £26 and £22, the latter confirmed, the former reduced to £2O; S. G. Farr, land, Armagh street, £2O, reduced to £lO.

Tuesday, June 15. (Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., R.M., and his Worship the Mayor.) Appeals Against the Crry Assessment. —The hearing against the city assessment was resumed at 10.30 a.m. Dr Nedwell, house Oxford Terrace, £l5O, reduced to £133 ; J. W. Fuller, house Montreal street, £3O, reduced to £22 ; J. C. Aitken (by his executor H. Matson), land Whately road, £7O, no appearance ; Andrew Ritchie, bakery Colombo street, £4O, no appearance ; Henry Atkinson, cottage Peterborough street, £2O, no appearance ; Joseph Eosewarne, house and shop Whately road, £IOO, no appearance; Henry Kilner, one cottage and workshop Kilmore street, £55, no appearance ; J. B. Stansell, house and land Chester street, £4O, confirmed ; C. Collins, house and shop Durham street, £7O, reduced to £6O; J. S. Buxton, no appearance; Alexander Adams, house and shop Whately road, £7O, reduced to £6O; J. La Touche, no appearance ; Mrs Watts Russell, no appearance ; John Hill, no appearance ; John Greenaway, house and nursery Whately road, £75, reduced to £7O; Robert Billings, house and shop Whately road, £65, reduced to £52 ; George Williams, no appearance ; E. W. Allen, house Whately road, £65, reduced to £6O ; Wm Card, no appearance ; Edward Thomas, twelve tenements Montreal street north, £2OO, reduced to £120; cottage Aldred street, £36, reduced to £3O: S. Simpson, two shops Whately road, £BO, reduced to £65; W. Dearsley, laud Whately road, £SO, reduced to £4O; Isaac Allen, cottage and land Peacock’s road, £4O, reduced to £3O; Charles Genet, ottage Peacock’s road, £35, reduced to £25; Gilbert Butler, garden Durham street north, £lO, confirmed; cottage Peacock’s road, £46, confirmed; J. T. Peacock, no appearance; diaries Duggan, no appearance; J. M. Wheeler, no appearance; M. Harris, four cottages within town belt, two at £52, two at £65, confirmed; John Thompson, no appearance; Thomas Thompson, house Salisbury street, £4O, reduced to £35; Ann Anderson, no appearance; Joseph Severn, cottage Aldred street, £24, confirmed; lean-to in same street, £lB, (reduced to £ls; cottage same street, £39, confirmed; cottage same street, £2B, confirmed; John Tunmer, house North town belt, £65, reduced to £52; house and land North town belt, £65, reduced to £52; house, £65, reduced to £52; J. B. Dale, land Durham street, £6O, confirmed; Richard Murphy, two houses Tuam street, £65 each, reduced to £52 each ; house and laud Madras street, £IOO, reduced to £80; Michael Kiley, double house, High street, £6O, reduced to £4O; W. H. Smith, house St Asaph street, £65, reduced to £SO; M. Hamilton, house St Asaph street, £SO, reduced to £4O; Charles Allison, two cottages Manchester street, £57, reduced to £3O; Alexander Cowan, boarding house and paddock corner of Salisbury and Manchester streets, £l5O, confirmed; John Thompson, cottage Salisbury street, £35, reduced to £25.

[Before G. L, Hellish, Esq, R.M.] Drunkenness. —Edward Brown, fined 10s and Is cab hire, and cautioned not to appear again ; Edward King, fined 20s ; Janies Bettington, a labouring man, was fined 5s ; Jno Hammond, who was also charged -with using obscene language, was fined 20s. Affiliation. —Peter Dunn appeared to show cause why he should not contribute to the support of the illegitimate child of Catherine Pollock, of which he was alleged to be the father. Mr O’Xeil appeared for defendant. After hearing the evidence his Worship made an order on defendant to pay 7s 6d per week into the Court towards tho support of the child, with costs 9s; the order to date from May 14th last Illegally Pawning. —John Armfield appeared on remand charged with illegally pawning a watch, the property of David Stott. The following additional evidence was taken:—The prosecutor stated that the watch produced was his property, which he had recently sent to Christchurch. Prisoner had no authority to dispose of it in any way. Detective Feast deposed that he found the pawn ticket produced in a bundle of papers belonging to prisoner. Henry Alexander, assistant to Samuel Stewart, pawnbroker, Lichfield street, identified the ticket produced, which related to a gun pledged by a man named Goodacre, for £2 10s, on 4th May, Edward Goodacre proved the pledging of a double-bar-relled gun for prisoner at Stewart’s. The owner of the gun said that prisoner received the gun from him as collateral security for a pound. Prisoner had no authority to pawn the gun, which was worth £lO. The prisoner said he did not wish to put the Bench to any further trouble. He 'owned that he pawned the gun. The prisoner was committed for trial on both charges at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. Adjourned Licenses. —The adjourned applications for public-house licenses were further adjourned for a fortnight.

Provoking a Breach of the Peace.— Daniel Howard, a cabman, was charged on information with behaving to Benjamin Ward so as to incite him to commit a breach of the peace. The complainant also sued defendant for £5 damages for an assault. Dr Foster appeared for complainant, and Mr J. B. Gi reason for defendant. It appealed that defendant was engaged by complainant to drive him home on 22nd ult. Complainant offered defendant his fare, 2s, which he refused to take, saying—“ You —, I’ll punch it out of you.” Complainant said —“ My name is Ward; you know where I live; you can summon me if srou5 r ou like.” Defendant then took complainant’s hat, and drove away with it. Two days afterwards defendant offered to return the hat, saying he was sorry, and wanted complainant not to bring the case forward. This took place at half-past nine o’clock in the evening. Defendant, on being examined, said that complainant took off his hat, saying, “You take that hat if you think 1 have not paid you enough ; you cabbies are a low lot of fellows, I know you well.” Defendant at last took the hat. Complainant spoke in a thick tone of voice, and tumbled down. It was a quarter past 10 o’clock at night, and witness was entitled to charge half fare extra. Mr, Gresson said

that there could hardly be an assault, as there was no intention to inflict corporal injury (Roscoc’s Nisi Prius . p. (Jl3), Complainant could not claim damages for the hat, as the defendant had offered to return it, but complainant refused to take it back. His Worship said that there was no doubt Howard had behaved very injudiciously. If he thought himself wronged he should have summoned complainant. He (defendant) would be fined 10s, and in the civil case ordered defendant to return the hat, with costs 9s, and professional fee £1 Is.