RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 74, 27 November 1862, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

November 20. John Brown was fined ss. for being drunk. November 21. George Charlton was fined os. for the same offence, Marshall v. Wilson. A claim for £3 3s. for board, lodging, and refreshments. Judgment for £2 125., and costs, 7s. November 24. John Smith was brought up in custody of Constable Wiggins, having been given in charge by T. Jelfurcs, for stealing a pair of trousers. No prosecutor apj,earing, prisoner was discharged. November 2". John Unison and George Sinclair were each fined Ss, for drunkenness. Topping v. Thompson. A claim for goods supplied of All (is. 7d. Judgment by default for amount claimed and costs. 15s. J. J. Smith <f- Co. v. V,'organ. A claim for storage and freight of All Ids. 3d. Judgment confessed for whole amount and costs, !)s. IIIIIVI.NG CATTLE TUIIOCOIL THE TOWN. Henry Alleg, Tntiekuri, fanner, appeared to answer the complaint of Mr. M. Fitzgerald, for having furiously driven certain cattle through the streets of Napier, on tlie Mill lust., thereby endangering the lives and limbs of her Jliijr.-ty’s subjects. Tiie complainant stated that defendant bad not taken tlie necessary precaution of sending a man abend of the cattle to warn persons of their approach, and that lie brought, this case forward to make it public Unit all persons wee bound in use every precaution to prevent a possibility of accident. Defendant stated that ho had taken all the care ho thought rCffuiMte. but that he only sent a man ahead of tlie cattle from (lurry's till past the Koiniiii Catholic Chapel. as in all other parts of the road, tlie cattle could bo scon coining at a distance. Tlie Bench expressed its opinion that when cattle were driven into town a man should always be ahead of them to warn the public, which had been neglected in tlie instance, but as tins was the first case of the kind that had been brought before them, they would infiiet the minimum penalty of Is. and costs, Ss.