MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2245, 13 June 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTOHUROH. Monday, June 13. [Before J. E. Parker, E. Dobson, and J. Ollivier, Esq., J.P.'s.J DBI7SKHBNBSS. —For a first offence a man was ordered to pay cab-hire 2«, and was then dismissed. Patrick Dowling, for being drunk and breaking windows, was fined 10s and 4s 6d for the damage, or to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. John Ray was fined 5s and John Gibson 20), or the usual alternatives. Alleged Embbzzlejibkt.—Patrick Dunn, charged with having appropriated to his own use the proceeds of a cheque for £52 10*, given to him to get cashed by his master, John Cassin, of Linooln, was, on the application of the police, remanded till the 17th instant.

Bubkhah School Ohildbbk.—Thomas Coleman was ordered to pay 12s per weak towards the support of his four children lately committed to the Industrial School. Tbbspabsinq with Dog and Gtjn.—The case against John Battley for shooting over the ground of Edmund Amyes without leave, adjourned from the 6th inst., was concluded. Mr Amyes had sworn that defendant must have got over three fences to reaoh the place where he was found. Defendant now produced evidence, disproving this statement. Surveyors had since been employed on both sides, and two sets of plans were exhibited. As defendant admitted having been on Mr Amye's land—unwittingly, he said—this issue was dropped, and defendant was fined 20a, solicitor's fee £1 Is, with costs of Court and of survey. Mr Stringer said he would take the case into the Supreme Court, as he held tho Magistrates had not power to order d< - fendant to pay the cost of the survey for the prosecution. Miscellaneous. Joseph Williamson, Clifton Wright, Joseph Keeney, Michael McOallum, and F. Fanning, oabmen, were each fined 5s for standing with their vehiole at the kerb opposite the Railway Station, instead of being on the proper stand.—For having in their possession unregistered dogs, John Wild and George Hifford were fined 10s each.—John Moir and J. Farra, for allowing horses to stray, were eaoh fined 5s and costs. — Ennis MoKendry, for a straying cow, was fined 5s and oosts.—A oase against F. C. Field, for keeping an unregistered dog, was adjourned for a week.—J. Arthur West, for shooting without permission a hare in a paddock belonging to S. Garforth, was fined 60s and oosts, with expenses of one witness.—Emily Shrader, sued by her father, William Paddy, for assaulting plaintiff, becoming very noisy in Court, was ejected. The case was dismissed. —Mrs Flowers obtained an order protecting her earnings against her husband, Flowers. She wes allowed to retain charge of her three children. —A case against William Moffat for assaulting Joseph Dickenson was dismissed. Assault. —William Lawrie charged 0. Burmeister with assaulting him. This was a bar-room row that took place in the Criterion Hotel. It appeared by the evidence that plaintiff ordered defendant to bring him some oysters and then refused to pay for them, upon which defendant struck him in the face once or twice. The Bench thought there had been considerable provocation given, and dis - missed the case.