MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1601, 7 April 1879, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, Apbil 7. (Before G. L Mellish, Esq., R.M.) Dbtjnk and Disobdebly.—Five drunkards were fined, two 5s each, and the other three 10a. Illkgally on Pbemises.—Thomas Jones, on warrant, was charged with being illegally on the premises of Benjamin Clarke. The prosecutor found the prisoner on his premises in Victoria street about ten o'clock last Tuesday night. He was lying down in his fowl house. The prisoner ran away and the prosecutor afterwards found a dead fowl in the house. Mrs Elizabeth Burford, a lodger in the complainant's house at the hour named, informed Mrs Clarke of it. Eliza Evans, a girl in the employ of the laßfc witness, gave corroborative evidence, and the prisoner who pleaded drunkenness, was sentenced to fortyeight hours' imprisonment with hard labor. Cheating a Dibtubance.—William Beard and Thomas Hawkes were charged with creating a disturbance in the Oxford Hotel, and refusing to leave when requested. The charge was admitted, and a fine of 10s was inflicted in each case. Laboeny. Stephen Welsh alias Green alias McCarthy was charged with stealing money, the property of Wm, Allen. On the • application of Sergeant Morice the prisoner ! was remanded until Monday, the 14th inst., in order that the necessary witnesses might be subpoenaed, to be brought up sooner if found practicable. Stealing a Swag.—James Walsh alias Michael Golding was charged with stealing a swag, the property of fcf. Pritchard. The prisoner was remanded until April 9th. Keeping Open Dubing Peohtbited Hopes.—Robert Belgrave was summoned for keeping open his licensed house, the Crown Hotel, Christchurch, during prohibited hours. Mr R. D. Thomas, on behalf of the defendant, admitted the offence, and was fined £5 aad cautioned. Fubious Riding.—Cornelius Dyer was summoned for furiously riding down Cashel street on March 29th. Constable McDevitt stated that the accused rode over a man and broke his wrist. H. Mendon, a carpenter, living in Colombo road South, stated that on the evening of the day mentioned in the information he was crossing at the corner of Colombo and Cashel streets, when the accused rode over him, knocked him down, and broke his wrist. Henry Knowth, a cook at the Al Hotel, stated that he saw the defendant galloping down Cashel street about half-past eight o'clock on the evening of the 29th March. He was trying to hold his horse in but did not succeed. He knocked the last witness down. Defendant, after the accident, returned to the spot. The defendant, said tho affair was purely accidental; his horse made a bound across the road through being frightened at a stone flying up, and the complainant was knocked down by his foot. His Woiship was disposed, in consideration of the heavy medical expenses the defendant would have to pay, and that there was a doubt as to the speed he was going at the time, to inflict a light penalty, and therefore fined the defendant 10s and costs. Fubious Dbiving.—Wm. Rountree was fined 10a and costs for furiously driving a hors« and cart on the 25th instant. CAUSING Air Obbtbuotion. —Wm. O'Connor, a licensed cabman, was charged with obstructing the thoroughfare on the South town belt. The railway constable proved the commission of the offence, and said he had previonsly cautioned the defendant. A fine of 10s was imposed. Albert Brown, similarly charged, admitted being off the cabstand, but •aid he did it to answer a hail from a fare, as he was the first cab on the rank. His Worship gave him the benefit of the doubt and dismissed the case. William John Kerr, similarly charged, failing to put an appearance, was fined 10s. Excess op Passengebs.—Michael Livingston, a cabman, was fined 10s and 2s costs, for carrying three passengers in his hansom cab. Unughted Hoabding.—Enoch West wa3 fined 10a on each of two charges of suffering the light to be out on a hoarding erected in the street, between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Riding Aceoss the Footpath.—Henry Price, a boy, admitted riding across a footpath, and was fined 10s and costs, 7s. Shooting in the Domain.—Richard and Arthur Searell were summoned for shooting in the North Park, contrary to the Domain by-laws. In the absence of Mr Loughnan, who had been retained by the defendants, and of Mr Armstrong, curator of the gardens, the case was adjourned until Wednesday. Wandebing Hobses and Cattle. Christopher Lawrence, John Harper. JT. Hazard, James Forator, Henry Price, and R. Palairet were fined the usual penalty for these offences against the by-laws. J. W. White, summoned by the city ranger, was fined 10a and coßts for tethering a hor»e in a public thoroughfare. John Miller was fined 5s and costs 7s for allowing six horses to wander on the South town belt, and George Lumnis, one horse, was fined 5s and 7s costs. Assaulting a Bailiff. —A. M. Gaul was summoned for assaulting Tharnas Noonan, an assistant bailiff, on April Ist. The defendant admitted the offence, which was of a trivial mature, and consisted in merely taking hold of his arm. A fine of 60a was imposed.