RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 99, 10 December 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

;.:...;• - ' ■;■ FEILD.IN,&,i ■ ".".'^ •'■ Friday, Dbcbmbbb 5, 1879. [Before r B. Ward./ifisq., $.M.] - '.. . :'V > i ( f ; iA^B^c^Bi »AJli^S.\ "' „',..,!/; -'^ 'William Aitken was charged " upon; the '■'. ./. '■information of Charles Roe with tth'e dis- : * p^sal of two horses, the property of the, ,in^ .■; ;forniant, wftifeft i l'^' ( l)_een^•piai^H^ltf■-'■■'hio''•.f 1 custody v a bailee. : - r T - • ; ; - i .The case was h&ard at considerable length, -, but as it .transpired, m .*.. that the original sale of liorses %o informont by the accused had been yitiatod bj an o^er, the police abandoned the prosecution, : " and the charge was disraiaied.^ • -' • ':■•■ - . . ; -A BC^NAqtQUB PAIB. Eooinson and: John Byrne irer» > charged with drunkenness and fighting m ;. the* stree^B. a, They s were disohargedjuppa r the first charge, and 'sentenced 'to"forty'iight hours' imprisonment upon the second, ■! WOMBN's' ij^ABSELi' 'f ;' ; i Buth.^ Pope .w^- .placed- m ttKe.rdq^k r charged with using abusive language fc>- ;- ward Eliaabeth iJpee, b,ut as from .the cvi ? .', dence. it appeared th.it " hohora' were easy," 7 and that both we're to blame, ; tbecaß» was ' dismissed. ; - t . > r T ' ;. A BOWDT OHABACTEE. John Morris, was. charged* by .the ..-.Oo^-J^ stable with Wrufy ' ' 'ooncl'^'t- VcafcftTaf 'e'fi' ta* 1" cause' a breach of the peace, '^ut a doubt urising as to his culpability, the > Bench -- gave hini the benefit,- and set him at liberty. ■ -■ ■' ■, ■'"'".■'" ;' AX ■ Ai-E-DENT^ .:. : : ?^ /. v l v; A foreigner, named looter Henningae«n, ''- was, charged^itli an att^fnp^tOr^uf down a ; neighbor named John ; jbnes^ with an axe. There - was a cross-summons" against Jones, for an assault, but after hearing bojth f ea;9es x - r s was sent to Wang^nuv Gadl^'for'ai nioath t tand that against J ohn dismissed.' ; .a