MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2664, 20 October 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

0 H B I B T OIK TJ B O H, Fbiday, Ootobkb 20. [Before O. Whitefoord, Eaq., B.M.] Shop-upping. —Owen McCormick, a boy aged nearly 14 years, pleaded guilty to stealing a cigar holder, valued at ss, from the shop of A. Sohloainger, tobacconist. He had gone into tho shop in the absence of the proprietor and pocketed the cigar holder. The mother of the boy and his brother gave the iad a very bad character, as refusing to attend school or go to work, and being in tho habit of stopping away from home of nights He was ordered to bo Bent to Burnham, to remain there till he attains the age of 15, and to be brought up as a Banian Catholic. Indbobnot, —Patrick Moss, for indecent exposure, was fined £5, or in default to be imprisoned for seven days. OiTir, Oases— Patterson v Carson, Mr Stringer for plaintiff, Mr Million for defendant. According to plaintiff, about August 19th, by the mistake of a carter, a quantity of old iron had been placed in Ayers and Co.'s auction yards, and was sold to defendant for £4, Plaintiff had not given instructions to the auctioneer to sell it. It was worth £22 He applied to Carson for the iron, Carson refused to return it, and the present action was brought for its restoration or the payment of its value as above. For tho defence, evidence we* brought to show that instructions for tho sale had been given to the auctioneer’s oleik. Judgment was for defendant, with costs, solicitor's fee, and expenses of one witness, 7 1. Judgments went by default in Morrison v Hall, £i 10s 41, and Eegina v Black and Parson, £6B 4§ 6d. Clark v Morris was adjourned till October 27th.

LYTTELTOH. Filin ay, October 20. [Before J. Ollivier, Esq., R.M.] Laboehy.— Michael Higgins, who hod eluded the police for some months, bnt was arrested lately at Whangaroa, was charged with steeling six ducks belonging to Rebecca Connel, Ferry road. Mr Joyce defended. A boy named Vincent testified that prisoner was working at his uncle’s farm, and spying the ducks in the paddock one day prisoner said ho wonld like a few of them, and the following day he caught six of them, tied their legs, and bid them iu the gorse, afterwards taking them home to bis house at Lyttelton, where they were found by the owner of them, who was given possession of them by the wife of the prisoner. Prisoner decamped upon seeing a constable approaching the place at which he was working. Mr Joyce contended that as the evidence rested entirely on the word of an accomplice the ease should be dismissed. The Bench sentenced him to a month’s imprisonment with hard labor. Must Pay TJp.—B. Croton, who has three children in the Industrial School, and who failed to answer the summons, was allowed one month within which to pay for the support of the children ; in default, he will be sent to prison. That Tubs ot Evil.—T. Wright charged J. Bennington with chopping down a tree growing on his property without his consent. The Bench dismissed the case, cautioning the defendant. Mr Haider appeared for the complainant ; Mr Joyce for defendant. An Socbhtbio Customer, Edward Teague, a photograper, charged J. Cathro with using abusive and threatening language towards him. Evidence was given that defendant bounced into complainant’s gallery, and set to in an excited manner disparaging some photographs of his deceased wife. [Left sitting ]