MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1627, 8 May 1879, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Thubsday, May Bth. [Before Gk L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.] Dbunk and Disoedebly. Two first offenders, charged with beiDg drunk and disorderly, were fined ss. respectively. Laeoeny feom a Dwelling. William Powell was charged with stealing a gold chain and appendages, value £9, the property of Edward Q-ribble. The accused, a lad of about fifteen years of age was, at the instance of Mr Inspector Hickson, remanded until the 15th instant.

Labceny and Fobgeby.—George Blantern remanded from the sth inst„ was brought up on three charges. The first was the larceny from a dwelling of a set of studs, value £l, the property of William Shaw. The second and third were forging and uttering two cheques for £lO 14s and £l3 10s respectively, with intent to defraud the Bank of New Zealand at Temuka and Ashburton. The Inspector of Police withdrew the two first charges of larceny, and forgery at Temuka, and requested that the accused might bo remanded for twenty-four hours to Ashburton, where the third offence was committed. The prisoner was remanded accordingly.

LYTTELTON. Thubsday, May 8. [Before his Worship the Mayor.] Dbunk. —A respectably dressed young man was fined 10s for being drunk at the railway station. Illegally on Peemises. —Henry Watson was presented on this charge, and sentenced to three days' imprisonment. Lunacy.—Thomas Kelly, liberated on Tuesday from custodv, was remanded a week for medical examination. Stealing Newspapebs.—Charles Ogdale, second mate of the W. 0. Wentworth, waa charged with having stolen a package of newspapers out of a milk-can, belonging to Mr Charles Walters. Mr Walters said that he received the papers from the Pbess and " Times " office, to take to Port Levy. They were for subscribers and were left by witness in his can. James Cohen saw accused outside the Canterbury Hotel on Tuesday. Mr Walters' milk-cans were outside the hotel. Witness eaw a man take the papers out of the can and give them to accused. Witness told the accused to put the papers back, and he replied go to h 1. The prisoner said the papers were given to him as he was coming out of the hotel, the remark being made to him at the time that they would be useful to him to take to sea to read. He did not know to whom the papers belonged. The Bench was in doubt whether the accused had a guilty knowledge when he took the papers, and thus dismissed the oase.