MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1357, 20 June 1878, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

■» ', ■ ♦ CHRISTCHUECH. Thttesdat, June 20. [Before a. L. Melliah, Esq., R.M., and J. T. Mation, Esq., J.P.] DEOSKENESS. —Timothy Sullivan was fined 20? : James Purr, who had been flnetj on f lie pre/ious day, was now fined 40s. One flrvt offender was fined l 6a and ordered to pay Is 6d cab hire. i Resisting A Constable. Thomas Courtney -?rag cbargedwith resisting and assaulting Constable Lawlorin the execution of Ins duty. He mnde no defence, and was £ne.d 40°xJiiKACJt of the Peace.—Edward "Whitcombo was charged with commit! ing a breach of the peare in View of a constable. Ho adiriitlcd striking ft blow, and «as fined 20s. • Obtaiuing Mosey ly False PaBTBNCBS. —John James McG-ralh,'alias John Clements, •wad charged with' vagrancy and obtaining jnon:-}' by a fal'so representation. John (jingava, barman, deposed to prisoner saying that lie wan a detective from IJunedin, and borrowing §3. Witness gaye him the money in oonseq'uence of that Btutement. Prisoner was sober. Harry Wett, keeper of an oysier saloon, deposed to prisoner hating endeavoured lo obtain an oyster supper by means of f. ho representations. Serjeant Beck proved tho

arrest of the prisoner, -who at the lock-up gave the name of John Clements. Prisoner had been brought up from the Benly about ten days ago on a charge of lunacy from drink. ' Constable Brigijs, watch-house keeper, deposed to prisoner having gone by the name of John James McGrath, whose trade was that of a blacksmith. Prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. All tho money found upon him (Is 3d) was ordered to bo given to the barman, Gin«?nva.