RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 46, 28 March 1877, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

FOXTON. Satubday, 24th March. (Before E. S. Thynne, Esq., J. P. and Dr. Eockstro, J.P.) William Bukako, a native, was brought up on remand, charged with being drunk. Prisoner was discharged with a caution, he having been a day and a night in the lock-up. John McKay and William Robertson were each fined 20s, or 48 hours imprisonment, for the same offence ; and John Jyles 40s or 48 hours imprisonment. Charles Watson was charged with being drunk, and using obscene lauguage. He pleaded not guilty. Constable Purcell said he found him at the Manawatu Hotel fighting, and making use of the most filthy language. Prisoner said it was not at all his style to make use of obscene language. He was the worse for liquor at the time and did not know what he was about. He was fined 20s or 24 hours imprisonment. Two sailors belonging to the s.s. Napier, were charged with wilfully damaging Government property to the value of ss. They pleaded not guilty. Constable PurceU said the property damaged was a pane of glass in the R.M.'s Court. He had been informed that the window had been : broken,' and on enquiry found that these two .men had been seen on the premises about' the time, between nine and ten : of clock on Friday night. Mr Hulke said he was : passing the Court about that time, and had

heard a smash, and had seen two men run away, but could not swear that prisoners were they. Mr Whyte, of Whyte's Hotel, said, between nine and ten he had heard a row, and went up to see if he could assist the Constable. After going back lo his hotel the prisoners came into his bar. They said that they had done a cleverer trick that night than any man in Foxton. The prisoners called on Captain Holmes, of the Napier, requesting him to testify as to their character. Captain Holmes said they had been in the Napier for some time, and that they had always been steady and industrious. The Bench fined them each 20s, and ordered them to make good the damage, or in default, 48 hours' imprisonment.