MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6510, 7 January 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUROH. Hbiday, Ja*. 6. (Boforo J. Ollivier, Esq., K.M., and R. Westenra, Esq.) DHXJKKHNNKas.—A first offender was fined 6s, and ordered to pay 2s, the cost of a cab employed to oonvey him to the polioo station. Failing to Pbovibb.—Thomas Mitchell was oharged on information with failing to provide his wife, Bridget Mitchell, with adequate moons of support. Mr Holmes appeared for the complainant. Complainant said .ho had been married to defendant for 11 years; ho had on several occasions treated her in a brutal manner —beating and kicking her out of the house—on Dec 5 last he knocked her down, turned her out of tho house, and sworo ho would not allow her to return. This was about 9 a.m., and it was raining. Defendant had a farm of 185 acres at BoTleston, where he lived. Cross-exam-ined : Had never loft the house without her husband's consent { on one occasion after she had beon ordered change of air by a medical man, she had gine to her sister's, though her husband I objected at the time, but he had previously said she might go. John Eadio, a (man-servant of defendant's gave evidence of the ill-treatment complainant had been subjected to. Ho had seen defendant kick hiß wife out of doors und throw I her box after her. Thomas Cooney, a neighbour of the parties at Bolleston, said that Mr. Mitohell, who had always been a woman of delicate health, had been compelled to seek shelter at hjs place, when she was insufficiently clothed, after her husband turned her out during last month. The defendant was extremely disrespectful in his manner while in Court, and ttye Benoh had to threaten on more than one bocasion to commit him for oontempt. At the conclusion of the case, the Benoh, in giving judgment, said that defendant had Seen guilty of most unmanly conduct in hi. 'treatment of his wife; she was a delicate woman, and had been subjected to the grossest ipossible cruelty. Defendant was ordered to jpay £1 per week towards his wife's maintenance, commencing from that day, and costs of the case, £4 3s. Labobhx mom: the Pbbson.—James Cross and Zilppe Cross wore charged, on remand from Jan. 3, with stealing from the person of Henry Hayes a purse, value la, containing a £sjnote, a cent pieoe, and a railway tioket. Mr Joyoe appeared for the accused. The 'evidence led by the police showed that the prosecutor had gone with the woman and Cross to a house of ill-fame in Madras street on the night of Deo. 31 last. While there he had produced his purse containing the money and artioles mentioned; after which he went to sleep on a sofa in a room where the two prisoners were. When he awoke about six next morning he missed his purse and money, and informed the police, who, after making enquiries, arrested the prisoners, and subsequently ascertained that a £5 note, on the same bank as that missed by Hayes, had been changed by the male prisoner on Sunday, Jan. 1, at the Foresters' Arms Hotel. The female prisoner made a statement to the effect that she had found the purse and money in the house after Hayeß had left. She went out to look for him, and meeting the male prisoner gave them to him to return to Hayes. Sergeant Mason said that no previous convictions were recorded against the accused. The Bench had no doubt that both the prisoners had been implicated in a robbery, and sentenced each of them to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. Nbglbotbd Childbbw.—William James, Charles Edwin, and Walter John Cross, aged five, three, and two years respectively, the children of Zilphe Cross, one of the prisoners in the previous ease, were ordered to be sent to the Burnham Industrial School for seven years each, to be brought up in the Church of England religion.

LTTTELTON. Fbidat, Jaw. 6. (Before J. Beswick, Esq., 8.M.) Smuggling.—William Henry Clarke was oharged with smuggling four boxes of cigars from the ship Phasis on the previous day. Accused admitted taking the cigars from the ship, but said he was only takiug them aboard his own ship, they having been given to him by an old shipmate for himself and some of his mates. Mr Bose, the Collector of Customs, said he had not elected to sue for the full penalty, £IOO, but simply for treble the value of the cigars, £l2. The Bench fined the accused £l2, which was paid. BbEAOH OF THE PITBLIO-HOtrSB ObdinANOE. —Mr Patrick Barry, licensee of the Cambridge Hotel, was summoned for supplying liquor to others than boarders on the morning of Jan. 1. Mr Nalder appeared for the defendant. Edward Hart, one of the men at work at the dock, stated that he had been drinking about the town on New Year's Eve, aud on his way home called in at the Cambridge Hotel, and got a bottle of whisky at 2 o'clock on New Year's morning. He was drunk that night and lost his watch. He reported the loss of his watoh to the police, and then informed them about getting the whisky at.the Cambridge Hotel. On being oroBS-examined by Mr Nalder, witness said he could nob he sure what the time was when he got the whisky. Mr Barry stated that he did not supply the man Hatrt with the whisky at two o'clock. He served no bottles of whisky whatever after eleven o'clock. He served several bottleß of whisky and brandy just before eleven. Mr Nalder called a witness, who, he said, could prove distinctly that the man Hart got the whisky about a quarter to eleven on the night of Deo. 31. The Magistrate, however, said that it was quite unnecessary to call the witness, and he would dismiss the case. Civil Cask.—Morling v. Benner, claim 80s. Mr Nalder for plaintiff; Mr Joyce for defendant. Plaintiff nonsuited.