RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 4 June 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

$BF9§PAT> 1879. « ; [Before bis Worship the Mayor, and H - : , /..^ , M'Neil, Esq. ,J.?,]; , ; r-j^-OBSOKNB JLttD ABTTSIJB 'XASTGhVAOi. " Stephen Banbury was ipformed against by Joseph. Hart for malting use of obsceae and abusive language on the 24tli instant.Defendant denied the, cliarge, bat evidence was giren J;o thp -|ao|" by Iferjv and testified toby a witness named Henry Burnett, and the Bench inflicted a fine of ten shillings, with ..nine ; shiliiQgs costs'; m default,- one week's iin.pri«muient, ; - BBBAOH. OF THE BQEQ^KJ^ BTK-LAWS. : , The aarqe defendant was then complained against by ponstable Gillespie f or a breacli of the 73pdclav|se of the Borough Bye-laws, by creating a disturbauce'rvrithin the town iiinits^on the night of the 2 lth v instant. The offence i was not denied, and a penalty pf ten shillings and seven shillings costs was imposed j failing the payment of which, a week's imprisonment. The fines, how* ever, m fboth cases were promptly paid. : . A'.SllflliAß.'P^Ai^B.' Joseph Hart, the complainant 'in a,form«r case, "was infonne.cl against by. CJonGillespie for a breach of fche peacft bu t **. according to the evidence of the. .witness, defendant was not muoh to hl%me, the Befell dismissed charge, , v . •;■■. i^tti^ ora " ; 7hom.as Montagqe was complained against by the 'Constable m charge jfor a breach of the 67tli claiise of the Balmerston Borough Bye-laws, by letting 9#; <a»ckeM m, public 'streets. . Defendant did not appear, and the nominal penalty of op& shilling arjd costs inflicted. ALIQWINa iHO^SB TO JWAKD?^. . Henry Gardes, wa? charged with allows ing his horse to trespass upon the Sqnarenclosure. .- ■ "' ■-. ' . . i The offence was admitted, but defendant stated that the animal had escaped from the stable, and that although he had horsSif for sixteen years, the present was. the only occanon upon which they had caused tnvtrouble. . -.: ■ ; ; . ■■':-': '•'■ Under the circumstances,! the Berictt'inflioted the minimum penalty of one shilling and costs. : ; V