MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1007, 17 September 1877, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHEISTCHDECH. Monday, September 17. [Before GL L. Meliish, Esq., E.M.j Drunkenness. —For being drunk and disorderly, Martha Warner was fined 20s ; T. Bonner, 60a, and Janies Alexander, 20s; Donald McFarland, charged with being drunk and disorderly, had been out on bail, and as he appeared in Court in a semi-intoxicated state, lie was remanded till next day. James Bott, charged with drunkenness, spoke in a manner so suggestive of mental aberration that he was remanded to Lyttelton for eight days. Eesisting the Police. —Joseph Brogan was lined 20s for resisting the police while in the execution of their duty. Alleged Breach oe the LicensingLaw.- Edmund Cooksou was charged with sidling liquor at an improper hom-, but as the man who was said to have obtained the liquor said that he gut none from the accused the ••■•ise was dismissed. Mr Thomas appeared for the accused, Trespass with Dog and Q-un. Eobert Woolstoii and Henry Walker were charged with trespassing on the property of Edward Angers, at Eicearton, on the ijth August, Xiw jwties 4ewe4 that iwi ebot o& tba

complainant’s ground, but they had gone on it for a rabbit which they had wounded. Air Angers did not wish to press for a heavy fine, but he desired to put a stop that kind of trespass, which was committed too frequently, even on Sundays. They were each fined 00s, with costs. Child Desertion. —Bridget Ferick was charged with deserting her child. It was agreed that 5s should be paid forthwith towards the child’s support, and the balance in instalments. Alary AlcAuly was charged under the same head, but the case was adjourned in order that a warrant might issue for the accused. Miscellaneous. —For respectively committing breaches of city bye-laws and rules of the road, T. Aldridge was fined ss; G. S. Bertram, 10s; H. AlcClutchie, 10s; T. Shearer, 10s ; J. Jones, 20s ; C. Physick, 10s; D. McKenzie, 10s ; Archibald Hamill, ss; G. Genner, 5s ; D. McGuinness, 5s ; Julia Clark, 5s ; AY. H. Davis, 5s ; James O’Brien, 10s; and T. G. Gee, 10s. Unregistered Dog. —Arthur Sewell was fined 20s for having an unregistered dog in his keeping. Assault. —Samuel Nillsen, a Dane, was charged with assaulting, on the 9th instant, a little girl named Christina Johnston, by striking her. Air Alonson, of Alessrs Petersen and Co., acted as interpreter. The accused admitted having slapped the girl on the face, after she had been annoying his boys and had thrust her tongue out at himself. The girl said that the blow had been struck with the man’s closed hand, that it loosened one of her teeth, and made her mouth bleed. She denied having made faces at the accused. Nillsen said that he had sent money by the girl’s father from the country to his (Nillsen’s) family, that her father had also struck his children, and that his girl (the complainant) had also kicked his little boys. The accused called a female witness, who corroborated his evidence, and he said that he could call half a dozen more. His AYorship thought the man had no right to take the law in his own hands as he had done, and the blow must have been more than a mere slap in the face to cut her lip and loosen her teeth, but at the same time the girl must have been in fault, and he would be fined 5s and costs.