POLICE COURT, QUEENSTOWN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 99, 9 April 1864, Page 3

POLICE COURT, QUEENSTOWN.

(Before Kichmond Beetham, Esq., R.M.) Friday, Bth April. I Creating a Disturbance—Win. Thomas and I Michael Morris were charged with committing a ! breach of the peace at Qiueust< wn, by fighting jin the public streets, and fur setting hep ! Majesty's subjects such a bad example, were each j fined 20s. DisorderlYjConduct—Thomas Buxton was charged by the police with allowing disorderly conduct in his licensed house, and also upon a second indictment with having resisted the officers in the execution of their duty. Sergeant Nuden conducted the case. Constable Hunt and Sergeant Naden proved that two men were fighting in the street and then went into the house, and that they went in to remove them, when the defendant ancTothers tried to prevent their being removed in custody. For the defence J Neil, a miner,, was > called, and deposed that he did not see the police resisted, though upon the men being taken up, Mr Buxton wanted the police to let one of the men go, so that he might be able to put him into bed and take care of him. Saw the landland endeavoring to put the men out and to keep order* Ihe defendant said he had done all he could to clear his house, and had not supplied them with the grog that made them drunk. He asked the police to let one of the men go, so that he might put him to bed, but did nothing more. Mr Beetham—As this case has been brought forward in the warden's court, I can cnly take notice of that portion relating to the charge of keeping a disorderly house ; the other charge of resisting the police can only be brought forward in the resident magistrate's court, and the evidence shows that the police were interfered with. For disorderly conduct the case is dismissed, as the defendant endeavored to clear his house at first, but I do so with the severest caution 1 can administer, and warn you never to come before me on such a charge again. You have rendered yourself liable to a fine of £SO. Sergeant Naden—Shall I bring on the case in the other court ? Mr Beetham—No, 1 think not; I have given a very severe caution, and he had better not come before me again. Assault.—James Boatswain was charged by James Crombie with having used abusive language, and also with committing an assault at Arthur's Point. The assault arose through a mining dispute, and the plaintiff deposed that on going to take possession of some spare-ground he was first abused and afterwards furiously at* tacked, struck and kicked, till the blood flew all about him. A witness of the name of James Brown confirmed the evidence of the plaintiff and the brutality of the assault, and that the defendant had first challenged Crombie to fight, which he refused. In defence, the defendant pleaded justification in resisting these men in the execution of their jumping propensities. Mr Beetham, in inflicting a fine of £5, administered a strong caution upon the effect of the law being thus taken into hand and mining disputes settled by such a method ; he was there to settle these matters, and would not allow the district to become disorganised by such actions. CIVIL CASES. Hutton v. Harris.—£4 4s. Goods. Judgment by default, with immediate execution. Christenson v. Paterson.— £s 13s. No sum* mons served. t Fitzgerald v. Silberberg.—,£B 12s. Bread- account. Judgment by default. Black v. Elia.~£s 18s. No appearance. M'Beath v. G. Smith.—£l3. Clothing, &c. Judgment by default. Malaghan v. Fitzpatrick.—£7 12s. 7d. No appearance. Same v. Wilson.—£9. No appearance. Moran and McMahon v. Frahey.—£B 18s. sd. Judgment by default. Same v. Alici.—£l 2s. Judgment by default. Budd v. Welsh.—£ll 10s. A loan advanced upon the Jenny Lind schooner, of which the defendant is owner. This case has been several times before :he Court, and the plaintiff was now non-suited on the grounds that he should have sued the owner, one Francis, and that the present defendant had pleaded no value received by him. Each party to pay his own costs. +. A Forgetful Man.—A man named Favor was before the New York Police Court on the charge of being a vagabond. He had forgotten his age and everything else of importance. "Are you sure that your name is Favor ?" asked the judge.—''Well, I thought it whs; but maybe it ain't."—"Are you confident you were born in Vermont?"—" Well, I always supposed I was j but I should not wonder if it was somewhere ; else?"—" Whv j re does your •.family live at pre* sent ?"—'• 1 don't know, I've forgotten."—" Can you remember ever having seen your father or mother?"—"l can't recollect to save myself; sometimes I think 1 have, and then, again, 1 think I have not."—"What trade do you follow ?"—•" Well, I am either a tailor or a cooper, and for the life of me 1 can't tell which; at any rate, I'm either one or the other."—" Have you ever been in prison ?"—" I don't much think I have; if 1 had, it seems to me I should recollect it." Mr Favor was accordingly sent there, and during a period of six months' retirement, he will have superior advantages for refreshing a memory jaded, doubtless, by too great a stock of useful knowledge, acquirea by long intercourse with vicissitude and misfortune. " Is that dog of yours a cross breed ?*' asked & gentkman of a canine vender. "No, zur," was his reply ; "his mother was a gentle aSectionatt cretur."