MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2391, 1 December 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHEIBTOHUEOH. Thursday, Dbcbmbbb 1. [Before G. L. Melliah, Etq., K.M.] Deunkennbss. —Thomas Fardoe, for being found drunk in Cathedral square, was fined 10s. Larceny. —John W. Crabtree, who had been bailed out on Wednesday on another charge, was brought up charged with having stolen one muffler, one smoothing-iron, and one piece of lace, valued at £1 6s, the property of Jane Jack, of Strickland street, Fbillipstown. Mrs Jack deposed that, in October last, she rented a house from prisoner’s mother-in-law. She left her house on November Ist, for a short time and on her return found the door locked and beard that her landlady had put a bailiff in for rent. On November sth she obtained from the house some boxes of personal effects, on examining which she found that the things named, with some others, were missing. She went with Constable O’Connor to prisoner’s honse, where the articles were found. The prisoner asked for a remand for twenty-four hours, for the production of a witness who he said had promised to clear him from the oharge. This was granted, and bail was accepted, accused in £SO and two sureties in £25 each.

LYTTELTON. Thubbuay, Dhcbmbbh 1. [Before J. Beswiok, Esq,, B.M.] ASBAriT. —A charge of assault was preferred against J. Hill by J. Stinsoa. Mr H. N. Nalder appeared for the complainant, and Mr J. Joyce for the defendant. The evidence went to show that the patties in the case were respectively supporters of different candidates for the seat for Lyttelton in Parliament, and defendant struck the complainant with his clenched first during an angry argument. The case was dismissed, the Bench stating that it should never have been brought into Court. A Stabbing Cask.— John Black, a sailor, was charged with stabbing a seaman named J. Smith, belonging to the ship Wanganui, Last Monday night, the complainant said ho was about (he town with two shipmates, and when near the tunnel the prisoner met them, and after some words and a fight and general scramble the prisoner and the complainant closed together in a struggle, when prisoner slipped the knife out of complainant’s bolt 1 and stabbed him in the back. Two witnesses 1 were called, who proved that the prisoner had | threatened to use a knife daring the struggle. 'Hr. Bouse stated that be found a wound in

complainant’s back, an inch wide, a little below the shoulder blade. It could hardly have been inflicted accidentally from the oblique direction it took for about two inches in the body. The sheath knife was produced in Court, and identified. The prisoner admitted using his fists pretty actively, but denied using a knife. The Bench committed the prisoner to gaol for one month, and to pay the medical expenses of the prosecutor. Civil Oases.— Miller v Maokay. claim £6. Mr Nalder for plaintiff. The evidence of the plaintiff was taken that he was cook and steward on board the Herald ; shipped at £5 10s per month on the 18th of June last. Ho left the vessel on the 16th of August. The captain, in plaintiff absence from the vessel, had shipped a man in plaintiff’s place, and refused to pay him the balance of wages which was due to him.

[Left sitting.]