MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2309, 29 August 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHRIBTOHUROH. Monday, August 29 (Before J. Ollivier and J. B. Parker, B-qs., J P. ’s.] Drunkenness. John Woden, for being drunk, was dismissed without fine, and for indecent exposure was fined 20a.—John Kelly was cautioned and discharged.—A man, for being drunk and breaking a window in Mr Schwartz’s store, was fined 5s and 7s 6d expenses.—For first offences, two men were fined 5s each, and two others were dismissed with cautions. Plucking Flowers in the Domain.— William Ijamb and W. A. Tribe wore charged with this offence.—Mr Holmes appeared for Lamb. Ho admitted for the accased that they had taken each a sprig of wattle bloom, a very small quantity. —They were discharged with a caution. Illegally on Premises. —Thomas Gallin, alias Dillon, alias Qillon, alias Maurice O’Oonnel, was charged with this offence. — James Wilkin deposed that prisoner was found in a shakedown bed on Sunday night in a cottage belonging to complainant at Merivalo. The cottage was unoccupied.—Ho pleaded guilty,—Tho police stated that he was well known to them.—Ho was sentenced to seven davs’ imprisonment with hard labor. Cruelty’ to Animals. John William Crabtree was charged with having loft ahorso in a paddock without food or protection from the weather, whereby it received such injury as to necessitate its being shot. —Mr Holmes appeared for defendant. —Constable Crockett deposed that on August 25th he was calle dto look at a horse in a paddock in Cashel street oast. Ho found it in tho last stage of exhaustion from, as ho judged, tho causes named in the plaint. He destroyed it, and it was given to Mr Brightling to bury.—John Taylor said he saw the horse after it had been destroyed. He thought it belonged to defendant; that is, ho had seen one marked like it in defendant’s possession.—Thomas King stated that ho accompanied Constable Crockett when ho went to see tho horse. The horse was then near death. It was a bay horse with a white face.— William Wallman deposed to the ownership He was positive that defendant had told him that he had bought it in May last for £l4 Witness had seen “that little cob” in defendant’s possession many times since. Witness had borrowed it in May last from him, and had ridden it. Ho had no doubt “ that little cob” had been starved to death.—Crossexamined—Witness stated that he had no cause of complaint against defendant or his wife. Ho had been defeated in a law case connected with the Crabtree estate, and had been annoyed about it. The cob was a dark bay, blaze down its face with white on his hind legs, and a blaze on the back of the right ear. He was rising four years old.—Mr Holmes asked for an adjournment. He intended to prove that the horse did not belong to the defendant.—The case was adjourned till Thursday next. Another case of ill-treat ment to a second horse against tho same defendant was adjourned to the same day. Remission op Sentence.—Mary Kennedy, who had been sentenced on July 29th to twelve months’ imprisonment for habitual drunkenness, was brought up and informed that, owing to tho urgent solicitations of her husband, and the consideration of her having a family, the magistrates had been induced to recommend her’s as a case in which commutation of punishment might be exercised. Tho Colonial Secretary, accordingly, had reduced the term of sentence to one month, which expired that day. The prisoner was then, with a few words of caution, discharged. Assaults.—A case against J. H. Aikin for assaulting T. H. Morgan was, on the application of tho complainant, allowed to bo withdrawn. —T. G. Devery pleaded guilty to an assault on Thomas Poole, at his bakehouse, Barbadocs street, on August 18th. He was fined 20s. Miscellaneous.—William Hall and B. Horrex were fined 10s and costs, and George R. Drew was fined 20s and costs, for having allowed horses to wander at large.—John Nixon was charged with having an unregistered dog in his possession. He produced a witness who swore that the dog was his, and was registered. Tho ease was dismissed.—Thomas Cooper, W. J. Difßn and John Scott were fined 20s each, and James Falkner was fined 10s, for this offence.—A case against M. Hamilton, a cabman, who was charged with having prevented another from getting a fare at tho Railway Station on August 20th, Jwas dismissed, the Bench saying that the evidence completely disproved the charge.—A similar charge against Duncan Munro was withdrawn —James Brown and W. H. Illingworth, cabmen, was fined 10s each for furiously driving in quest of a fare at the Railway Station on August 18th. Ernest Harris, who was charged with them, was dismissed.'— John O’Donohoe, another cabman, for a similar offence, was fined 10s,— Charles Walters, for driving two cows along a footpath, was fined 10s. —James Johnston, for quitting a railway carriage whilst the train was in motion, was fined ss.—John Vogel, for having a cow at largo, was fined ss.—Fred. King and J. Muriaon were charged with selling adulterated milk. Mr Stringer, who appeared for defendants, pointed out that the information was laid under an obsolete act. Tho oases were dismissed.