MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1053, 12 November 1877, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, November 12. [Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.i DRUNKENNESS.—Two first offenders were fined in the customary amounts. J. O'Brien was fined 10?, T. Jenkins, ss. Cattle Trespasses.—For offences under this head W. H. Mem was fined ss, J. Falloon, 15s ; R. McPherson, 5s ; A. Piper, 5s ; J. France, 5s ; Hugh Taylor, 10s; W. Brooker, 5s ; Walter Hartnell, 10s; W. H. Davie, 5s ; W. Craig, ss; R. Dixon, ss: S. Da vies, 5s ; J. Harper, ss. Unlighted Hoarding.—J. Wood was fined 20s for neglecting to keep lights burning on hoarding. Chimney on Fire.—Thomas Dixon was fined 10s for permitting his clunmey to be on fire. Obscene Language.—Eliza Bray was fined :.'os for using obscene language at Phillipstown. Breach of Railway Regulations.—W. Freeman admitted haying committed a breach of the Railway Regulations at Balcairn, and was fined 20s. Rescuing a Pig.—Joseph Shulik, a small boy, was charged with rescuing a pig from a Pole, named Dronik, at Lincoln. The easr was dismissed, the accused being caution'' .jj and his parent ordered to pay the V jS t s 6s (id. Destroying Fruit Bushes.~-F_ # p or . syth, W. Fabian, and W. Lawesv e "young lads, were charged with destroying plants and gooseberry bushes, the pyopert' ,' 0 f James Burberry, at Sydenham, So. tV value of one shilling. Mr Burberry said that the boys had been a constant, sow e 0 £ annoyance, which he desired to put a t jtop to> The p ai . entß of the boys were orde*er\ to pav the damage, together with costs, iifr Disturbance. —' y y 0 . Qnlijj P# O'Grady, and J«h» Mulvihill, were charged with creating a dw> , U rbance at the Perthshire Arms, Lincoln, ' xhey were fined 20s. G-amblingv- .a charge against J. H.Sluis, for permittMy gambling in his licensed house, was dismiss /( j. Wipe Desertion. —W. G. Cunningham was char g e j w ith deserting his wife, on the sth ir Btant, 8 tant, without lawful cause. The after stating that when he went aw 'jy he bad no intention of deserting his said that the best thing one human being could do for another was to send him to gaol for two years. He would pay for the support of his children, if he could get them into his own custody, but ho would not his wife. Ee would not work for her—in fact he ?ras not likaly to get work hero -now, and was at that moment without a shilling to buy a meal. Mrs Cunuinghiim's evidence snowed that her husband, under pretence of going for a doctor for her, had left the house late at night, and the next she heard of him was when he was brought back from Wellington •is an absconding witness in a Supreme Court ease to be heard at Timaru. The accused was ordered to pay £1 a week towards the support of his children, of whom hjs wife would retain custody.

LYTTELTON. Monday, Novembeb 12. [Before W. Donald, Esq., R.M.] Laboeny.—Martin Brown, on remand, was charged with the above offence. David Evans, cook at Mrs Beverley's Hotel, said that, on Friday evening, prisoner came to him and asked him for the key of the store, as he wanted to put a box and a bag he had with him into it for safety. The box produced was the one. Bernard Johnston, the prosecutor, said he had never authorised the prisoner to take his box and clothes ashore, and had never told him he was going to desert the ship. Prisoner was further charged with stealing another box, from the Silas Fish. Constable Moutray said he had taken possession of the box in question, which he had found in the forecastle of the barque East Lothian. The box was identified as having belonged to the Silas Fish.—Wm. Pierce, seaman on board the barque East Lothian, said the prisoner had told him he would give him a chest. On Friday last he had gone round to the barque with him between seven and eight p.m., and prisoner had given him the chest in question. Witness valued chest at 6s. It was empty when he got it. Captain Williams, of the Silas Fish, said the chest in question had been the property of a boy who had deserted ; it was worth about 6s. He had authorised no one to take it. The Bench treated the case as one of embezzling ships stores, and sentenced accused to fourteen days' imprisonment.