MAGISTERIAL.

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MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTCHUBOH. ! Fbeday, July 1. [Before C. Whitefoord, Etq , K.M., and B. Westonro, Bsq., J.P.] j Dbtjkkenhbsb. For first offenoes four I men, one of whom had £2O in his pocket l when taken to the lock-up helplessly drunk, i were fined 5s each. Peter Brown was fined ss. Vageancv.—Thos. Murray, who had given < himself up to the police as being destitute, and c of whom Sergt. Mason said his oase was one ] in which the police, except from motives of t humanity, soarcely ought to interfere, was 1 brought up, charged with having no lawful < visible means of support. Ho said he was a < shoemaker, was unable to prooure employment, t and had no means at all of maintaining him- ] self. His Worship said the record showed i that he had been up on similar charges before, and it was to be feared that drink had muoh to do with the poverty he oomplained of. < Ho would bo remanded for one week, the < sergeant of police to see if work could be t found for him at any of tho boot factories in town, and bring him up at the end of the I time to be finally dealt with. < House Bobbbby.—Geo. Gustav Schmidt i was brought up on remand from Akaroa, ] charged with having, between June sth and ] 6Lh, broken into and stolen from the premises of the Biccarton Hotel, a gun, fifty cartridges, I and a lady's reticule, valued at £lO 12s 6d. i Alfred Lewis, son of Ohas. Lewie, late t licensee of the Eicoarton Hotel, identified the ] articles produced as being the property of his father. He had last seen them on June sth, > and mioßed them next day. The gun had I been hanging in a pantry, to whioh entrance ' could be gained by a door from a scullery. : After missing the gun he found glass broken : in tho scullery window, and other appearances which led him to believe that an entranoe had . been effected thereby. The window had been properly securod on tho night of_ the sth. Know prisoner, who had been residing in the hotel as a lodger. In answer to prisoner, I witness said he had not been shooting with the gun in tho park on the night of the sth. Had never shot hares in the park. The prisoner remarked that he had a dangerous lot to deal with. These were the lambing down lot, who had enticed a man to raffle a horse and cart, and afterwards lambed him down. The Magistrate told prisoner he would have every possible latitude allowed in crossexamination, but what had been just now asked could not possibly do any good to him even if witness had admitted the insinuation to be true. Prisoner—" Well, your Worship, I met him and his brother in the park on that night, and they had with them a dog and the gun." Joanna Benahan, cook at the Biccarton Hotel, deposed to seouring en the night of the sth the door and window of the scullery bofore mentioned. Next morning she found the window broken, and the glass lying outside against the wall. The putty had been cut out from the sash, and the glass had been taken out. Patriok Xellahan a farmer of Okain'a Bay, deposed that prisoner came to his house on the night of the 16th Juno. He had in his possession the gun and bag of cartridges now produoed. The artioles were in a cornsack. He offered them for sale, asking £4 for the lot, a day or two afterwards. Witness bought the gun, &c, for £3, and prisoner went away. Sergeant Willis, in charge of the polioe station, Akaroa, stated that he arrested prisoner in the Hospital, Akaroa, on June 27th, on the present ohargo. Prisoner made no reply to the charge. Witness got the gun, &c , from Mrs Kellahan. This concluded the evidence, and prisoner was then committed for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court to be held at Christchuroh. Bail was not mentioned. Civil Oasbs.—Gee's Trustees v Ackerton, £7 15s 9d, for goods supplied. Mr Georgo Beatty applied to have the case struck out. He said ho had purchased the book debts in the estate from the trustees, for whioh he produced vouchors, and now found the trustees suoing in thoir own name, expecting of course to recover. His Worship said ho did not see how ho could do anything. Mr Beatty, stnotly, was not entitled to a hearing; he did not appear either for the plaintiff or defendant, and bad no standing in the Court. If he found that anything wrong was being done by the trustees he had his remedy in the usual course. Mr Beatty said he had only ; just heard of these proceedings. Mr J. Stringer, who appeared for the trustees, said 1 the defendant's dobt now sued for had not been 1 inoluded in the list of those sold to Mr Beatty - L His Worship finally refused to interfere, and gave judgment for plaintiff, by default, for the amount claimed, with coots. Judgment for * plaintiff was given in Butler Bros, v Every, r for £2l, and solicitor's fee, £2 2s. Judgl ments went by default in Edwards, Bennett, . and Co. v Hooker, £l6 10s 7d, and Percy v Morgan, £1 10s. In Watt r Boss, a oase which had been settled out of Court without f notice to oounsel, Mr Slater claimed and obtained hii fee of one guinea.