MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2382, 21 November 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHKIBTOHUBOH. Monday, Notembbb 21. [Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., B.M.] DRUNKENNESS.— For this offence Mary Brown was fined 10s. A case against Mary Cunningham was allowed to go without penalty, on her promise of reformation. Thos. Buddie, who had resisted the police and willfully destroyed private property, was fined 10s, and ordered to pay damages, 265. Bridget Ferrick, who had about forty [previous convictions registered against her, was fined 20s. Walter Baker was fined ss. John Nison, who had been remanded for a week’s medical treatment, was ordered to pay 14a for maintenance and discharged. For first offences three men were each fined ss. Labcbny. —James Marshall and Thomas Peart were brought up on remand from the 14th inst. charged with having stolen seventyfour sheepskins and two pieces of skins, the property of J. T. Ford and Charles Newton. Superintendent Broham conducted the prosecution ; Mr Stringer appeared for Marshal], Mr Loughrey for Peart. By the evidence led by Mr Broham it appeared that Messrs Ford and Newton, in the early part of the present month, had in store lots of skins belonging to Messrs Mallock and Dance, Chapman, and Homersham, of which, on the Bth and 10th, there were found missing about eighty. On the 7th, the prisoner Peart went to the storeman and delivered to him fifty sheepskins, and on the Bih Marshall brought twenty-eight more, which were taken in to be sold in the usual manner. Both of these parcels, when shown to the storeman, were in a yard adjoining Messrs Ford and Newton’s store, some of the windows of which looked into it. On examination, the parcels brought by the prisoners were found to include a number of skins bearing Messrs Mallock and Lance’s and Chap-

man’s brands, and also some which resembled those belonging to Mr Homersham. It was proved that Mallook and Lance had not sold or sent out to be sold any but the one lot of skins before alluded to in a period of over twelve months, and had not sold any live sheep for eighteen months. The theory of the prosecution was that Marshall, who formerly was storeman at Messrs Ford and Newton’s, but who had lately been discharged, had got into the store at night, thrown the skins out of the window into the yard, and entered them afterwards on his own account to be sold by the firm, Peart being made use of to cover some of the entries with his name. The prisoners, when arrested, gave different accounts of how they came by the skins. Peart said he got them from Marshall. Marshall said he got them from a butcher named Gabites, at Prebbleton. The latter, however, when called, denied having sold to prisoner any skins with Mallook and Lance’s brand on them. The evidence for the prosecution was very lengthy. _ The prisoners by their counsel reserved their defence, and were committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court, to be held at Christchurch. Bail was applied for, and fixed at the prisoners themselves in £l5O, and two sureties for each in £75.

Assault. —Geo. Hammil, a cabman, was charged with assaulting Goo. Harris. Plaintiff said that defendant, while standing on the rank, Cathedral square, on November Bth, asked him to ride in his cab, and on plaint ff refusing, defendant knocked him down, Two witnesses corroborated this statement. He had also insulted Constable Henry, who was called by plaintiff at the time of the assault. The case was adjourned for a week, to allow defendant to subptena witnesses. Miscellaneous. —John Wood, for allowing his stage coach to ply without a license, was fined 10s.—John Leader, for tethering a cow so as to allow it to stray on a footpath, was fined 10s.—John Coo, for allowing 120 sheep to wander at Prebbleton, was fined ss.—Wm. B. Burman, Wm. Rogers and James Mundy, for tethering horses on Cambridge terrace, were fined 10s each. —Mary Bannister, for using obscene language, was fined 10s. — A. E. Putton, for allowing four horses to wander at large, was fined ss.