MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2277, 20 July 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, JULY 20. [Before Messrs J. N, Wood, R.M., J. E, Parker and R. Westenra, J.P.’s.] Violent Assault. Henry Petersen, against whom a charge as above, together with larceny (two casee), had been heard yesterday, and who had been remanded for examination as to his sanity, was sent to Lyttelton gaol for eight days for medical treatment. Bubnuam: School Chudeen. John lease Newton, charged with disobeying an order of the Court to contribute to the support of his five children, now pleaded poverty, and the police saying they believed that he was unable to pay, the case was struck out. Similar cases against John James Dowie and James Smith, who have each two children in the institution, were adjourned, the first for a month, the other for fourteen days, Neglecting to Abate a Nuisance, —The case against Charles Wsdfy, who had been allowed a week to abate a nuisance caused by depositing refuse in a right-of-way at the back of Waller’s, between Tuam and Lichfield streets, was again brought forward. The Inspector of Nuisances and J. B. Sheath stated that the offensive matter had only partially been removed, and that it still stank abominably. The former witness said that the smell at present certainly was as eau-de-cologne is to ditchwater compared to what was formerly experienced ; but Mr Sheath and Mr Waller said it was still very bad indeed. Defendant stated that the stuff he had carted there had been some of the debris from Edwards and Bennett's fire, and tho smell arose from nothing but burnt sugar and foul gas. He had put lime on it, and was carting it away as fast as he could, when interrupted by tho rain. Tho Bench said they would give him another week to clean up, and adjourned the case for that period.