MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2001, 23 July 1880, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, July 23. [Before C. Whitefor.rd, E,>q., R.M., and J. E. Parker, Esq., J P.] Drunkenness. —A first offender was fined ss. Mary Ann Nugent, well known to the police, pleaded hard to be discharged, urging that she was on her way from Dunedin to Wellington to Join her husband. The Court fined her 20s.

Fowx, Stealing —Elizabeth Tates was charged, on remand, with fowl stealing. There were six separate charges of a similar nature against her. They were with stealing two fowls, the property of Annie Clarke ; two fowls, the property of Andrew Bitchie ; two fowls, the property of William Hyland ; two fowls, the property of Albert Walker ; one fowl, the property of Frank Brassington ; and two fowls, the property of Peter Hyndman. Prisoner admitted only haring had two of the fowls in her possession, and they were given to her by a woman whose name she did; not know and who had gone to Dunedin. The evidence of the various witnesses was to the effect that the fowls were missed from their roosts and in one instance accused was found in a hen-house at half-past ten at night. They were afterwards traced to have been sold by prisoner to some small boys for a shilling apiece. The Court sentenced her to a month's imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.