RESIDENT MAGESTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 1, 5 March 1866, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGESTRATE'S COURT.

[Before J. Poynter, Esq., E.M.] This Day. Thomas Cambray was fined 10s. for drunkenness. G. King v. Captain Ponsoaby. — This was a claim of 12s. for washing the clothes of the captain of the ship 'Auckland.' Plaintiff said, on the 13th 2?ov. last, he received about three dozen clotbes of various kinds from the steward of the 'Auckland,' his wife had washed for the captain-previously, and had been paid by him ; he could not say if the captain's name was on the clothes. . » Captain Ponsonby said, to his certain knowledge, he had never paid a washerwoman for three years past. The plaintiff said, the captain had paid him about four months before, and he returned the linen in question to the stewardess. The Magistrate told the plaintiff he might as well summon the cook as the captain, unless he could, prove that he washed the clothes by the order of the latter. As the steward, who gave the order for the washing, was not present, the plaintiff was nonsuited. Constable Murphy charged a sailor named Benjatxnin Jones with resisting him in the execution of his duty, whilst attempting to arrest some- sailors who were absent without leave from the ' Dona Anita.' Murphy having received instructions from the captain to arrest any sailors he found in the streets after 10 o'clock at night, and seeing three or four belonging to the 'Dona Anita' in the streets after that time, attempted, with the assistance of Constable White to take them into custody. The prisoner, a sailor belonging to the craffcf Gibbons, then came up and attempted a rescue. ; ; |pLne' con sequence was the prisoners ran away, but .were followed and secured. The prisoner, who discovered a remarkable obliviousness of past events, said he " knowed nothing of .nothing,'" except that he had a confused notion that Jtfie gentleman in uniform wanted to " lick " his jolly Neptunian companions. The magistrate told him he could, under the ' Con stabulary Act,' fine him £10 for resisting the police, but Avould let him off with a fine of £3 and costs only, or,the alternative of 14 days imprisonment. : Three sailors of the ' Dona Anita . were informed against by the captain of that vessel, for being absent from the ship, without leave, on Saturday . nigtgt last. The captain had given a general permis- v sion fb the sailors to absent themselves till -10 p.m., after which time they were to apply to the mate, if they wished an extension of the indulgence. The police had also been requested, to arrest any sailors belonging to the 'Dona Anita' whom they, might find without a pass. .. ' ;. . The captain attended this morning, and intimated^; to the bench that he did not wish-to proceed against ;^.j his men, further than he had done.. He was/unp.rcxr^l; vided with his log-book, .or any other means, to obtain^ ". a conviction,, than the information he had lodged^! against them. '. . ,".';.•;■; '• f$ >?'&?:£.''[:• The Magistrate told the captatn : h^'was'.'farifl&l^^; with, the court; Under the circumsta^Qes£,he [.nothing to d,o lbutdißmisß?tli'g/dc^danl^^^.' : i v.:^f^