RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 235, 3 October 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, October 3. (Before J. Sharp, Esq., IU1.) William P. Martin charged with stealing a pair' of earrings from the Pier Hotel, was remanded for ihe production of further evidence, uutil Tuesday next. William Townseud, charged with allowing five head of cattle to be astray ou the Wuimea-road, was fined £1 ] Is. 6d. and costg. Vere Bogle, charged with 'allowing three head of cattle to be astray in Wellingtonstreet, was fined 145., being 2s. 6d. for each offence, with costs. Joseph Gilsort charged with having on the 18th ulfc. 'unlawfully, wantonly and cruelly beat, illtreateil, pbused and tortured a certaiu horse,' on being called did uofr appear. Constable Sherwood deposed to havin serred a summons on Grilson on Wednesday last, and his Worship ordered a warraut to be immediately issued for his apprehension. Johu Taylor aud Edward Coogean, seamen belonging to the brig Susan, charged with using obscene lauguage on the Haven Eoad yesterday evening, were each fined 40s. and costs, or in default, one mouth's imprisonment. Judgment was given in the adjourned case W. Fox v. J. Sturt Gu other, an action brought to recover £8 13s, for extras done by the plaintiff in the erection of a houee in the Waimea-road, against which a set off of £l 1 1 is had been lodged. Mr D. Burns, who had been appointed arbitrator by his Worship on the previous hearing of the case, having surveyed the work, brought up his award, and judgment was given for the plaintiff for £2 15s, with costs.