MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2707, 11 December 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH Monday, Deceheee 11. [Before J. Ollivier, Esq., E.M., and Major Bamfield, J.P.] Drunkenness. —Mary Craig, an incorrigible drunkard, was sent to gaol for three months. For first offences, two men were fined each ss, and one 10s. J. D. Clifford was fined 10s. Anthony Ferrick was fined 10s. In all case of default to be imprisoned, for the usual terms. Neglected Children. —Robert Needham (12), and Sarah (10), Philip (8), Minnie (0), and and Albert (3), big, brothers and sisters, were, on the application of their father, sent to Burnham until they roach the age of fourteen years; the cause assigned being the drunken habits of the mother and the inability to look after them of the father. He was ordered to pay 15s per week towards their maintenance. Stealing from a Shop Front. —John Edwards, alias Edward Johnston, for stealirg, on Saturday, a pair of hoots, valued at 16s Gd, which had been hanging on the outside of B. J. Hale’s shop, Colombo street, was sentenced to be imprisoned for two months, to be kept at hard labour.

Absconding ■ fbom his Bail. John M'Callum, lately held in bonds, himself in. .£3OO and two sureties in £IOO each, for his appearance at the next sessions of the Supreme Court, to answer a charge of breaking into and stealing from a shop, was brought np in custody charged with intended evasion. The prisoner had been arrested on the information of one of hia sureties, who now swore that he had reason to believe that the prisoner intended to absent himself from the jurisdiction of the Court. The surety was released from his responsibility, and the prisoner was committed to gaol until ho finds fresh sureties. Attempted Suicide. —Henry Clark, the half-witted boy, under remand for this charge, was again remanded till Thursday next for further medical examination. Breaking into and Stealing from a. House. —Eobert Tindall and Edward Eeynolds, alias Campbell, were charged with the above offence at a house in Queen, street. The house had been occupied by one Walter Neilas now in gaol. After bearing some evidence, the case was remanded till Tuesday for the production of Neilas.

The Murphy Family. —-The cases in connection with this family were further adjourned till Thursday next. Miscellaneous. —Walter Walls, for breaking the glass in a fire-alarm box at the comer of Montreal and Tuam streets, on the night of November 25th, was fined £l, and expenses of two witnesses 10s.— Arthur Pillow, for riding a bicycle on a footpath in Colombo street, on November 25th, and Ernest Stratton, for a similar offence in Sydenham on December Ist, were each fined .£1 and costs.—C. E. Church, for leaving cases of goods on a footpath, was fined 10s. James Murrain and Thomas Mo*ney were fined 10s and costs each for fighting-. Julius Eeiter, for allowing an unregistered dog to wear a badged collar belonging to another dog, was fined and costs.—A ease against Emily Setford, charged with assaulting Susan M'Namara, was dismissed. Thomas Brown was fined ss, costs of Court, 9s, and 5s expenses of one witness, for assaulting Julius Eeiter.— An application made by Eose Martyn for separate maintenance and protection for her earnings against her husband was refuse