MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2287, 1 August 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHEISTOHUEOH. Monday, August 1. [Before J. Ollivier and J. E. Parker, Esqs., J.P.’sJ Drunkenness. —Samuel Turner Long, who had been in custody since Saturday night for being drunk, was now cautioned and discharged. Vagrancy. —John Hawkes, alias Williams, just out of gaol, where ho had been serving a term for larceny, and against whom there is a long list of convictions, was brought up charged with having no lawful visible means of support. Tho police said that, when arrested, he seemed to bo suffering from the effects of drink. Prisoner pleaded hard to be allowed to try once more to get employment. Tho Bench said ho would be allowed another chance, and recommended him to tako tho pledge and not mate his re appearance, or ho would bo severely dealt with. Ho was then discharged. Oeublty to Animals. —Alexander Lazarretto, a fiish-hawker, was charged, on information, with having tethered a horse, on the night of July 19th, in an open lot near Colombo street South, where it received such injuries from exposure as to make it necessary to shoot it. Eobort Swanston deposed to finding tho horse, on the morning of July 20 th, lying in a pool of water. It was etruggling to get up, but was paralysed behind, and could not stand. The night had been tho worst witness remembered having Boon in Canterbury. Defendant and two other men came up about eight o’clock, and hitching ropes on to the beast drew him out of tho water. They then covered him over with bags. Ho lay there all day until the evening, when witness informed the police, who caused tho horse to bo destroyed, Wm. Smith and Ohas. Heywood corroborated the evidence of last witness. Tho horse had got entangled in his tether rope and was unabln to move. After being freed from tho rope it seemed paralysed. Defendant covered the horse up, but it lay all day in the rain until the police came up. Sergeant Pratt stated that defendant said to him that there was a bill of sale over tho horse, and ho was afraid to kill him. There was no feed where the horse was tethered. Defendant stated that the horse had never been stabled, and if ho had not got down entangled with the rope ho would not have suffered from tho exposure. Ho was fined 20a and costs.

Protection Obdeb.—Mary Donaldson applied for an order protecting her earnings from her husband, and giving her charge of their four children. She stated that her husband was an incorrigible drunkard, and that ho habitually ill treated herself and the children in a brutal manner, while he neglected

t) furnish thorn with means of subsistence, t’he order was made as prayed, and he was further ordered to pay 10s per week towards the support of the children.

Assaults. —The adjourned case against Henry Smith, charged with beating his daughter, was again brought forward. Defendant by two witnesses proved an alibi, and the case was dismissed.—Daugal McPherson and James Walsh wore charged with assaulting W. Forster, of the Coffee Palace. The plaintiff deposed that on the evening of July 23 rd defendants went into his place. They were drunk; he refused to serve them, and asked them to leave the place, when defendants and another man attacked him, and he was severely beaten. Walsh was the most violent. Two witnesses, who were present at the time, gave corroborative evidence. Walsh made a statement to the effect that ho had struck Forster in self-defence. McPherson had nothing to say. Walsh was fined 40s sud McPherson 20s and costs. —Thos. Henderson pleaded guilty to beating his wife, Elisabeth. Ho said ho did it under groat provocation. The parties had been married twenty.eight years. The case was adjourned for a week, in order that the matter might be arranged amicably or stops taken for the separation of the parties. Miscellaneous. —Henry Wakefield, Goo. Smith, and Jas. Tod, for allowing horses and cattle to stray on public roads, were fined 10s for each offence. Jas. Milne and Henry Saunders, charged with setting on fire a gone hedge in Armagh street on July 14th, were discharged, there being no evidence to connect them with the offence. Thos. Roberts, for obstructing a road in Woolston by depositing timber on it, was fined 10a. Thos. Comer, for sledging stone on Dyer’s Pass road, was fined 20s and coats.