RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 94, 23 April 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before L. Broad, Esq., R.M.) THIS DAY. A DISORDERLY CHARACTER. John Howard was charged with breaking two panes of trlass of the value of 25s iu the shop of Mr D. Burn, in Trafalgar-street. The prisoner, who said he was drunk at the time, deliberately put his fists through the windows at about nine o'clock last nighfc. The Inspector of Police said that prisoner first came to Nelson in the cable ship Edinburgh, in which he went back to Sydney, and some little time ago returned to Nelson as a stowaway in the Kingarooma. His Worship, said ho could not accept drunkenness as au excuse for such conduct, and fined him £i and costs and ordered him to pay the value of the property destroyed, on in default to be imprisoned for ten days. A further charge was laid agaiust him of using obscene language in the str.ets, which' was fully proved and he was fined £3 and I costs, or fourteen days. DEBT OASES. > W. Adams v. Boyes.— Plaintiff sued for £12 due for rent «,» d interest on mortgage. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the plaintiff," for whom judgment was given for amount claimed and costs. Fletcher v. E. L. Shaw.-— Action to recover £26 15s Bd, partly for liquor supplied and partly amount of overdue acceptance. Mr Acton Adams appeared for plaintiff. The same form was repeated by the bailiff with a like result. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs, luxacy. William Kcvan, who has for some time past been wandering about tho streets in a st.Uc of semi insanity, was this morning committed to the Asylum on the evidence of Drs. Scaly and Bligh.

The Westland. County Council offer a salary of £800, inclusive of travelling expenses, for a competent superintendent of road works. The Grey River Argus reports, that one farmer up the Grey Valley expects to clear £250 from his* apple crop, and another has< sold £12 worth of plums from one tree alone. It is reported (says the Greymouth Star) that the Hon W. 11. Reynolds at the coming session of Parliament will bring forward a resolution with a view to reducing the honorarium of members to £100 per session. It would not be surprising if fche hon. members seized the opportunity to increase their pre? sent honorarium. A deplorable case has occurred afc Hokitika, reflecting little upon the credit of the publican interest of that town. A woman named Elizabeth Farrell, in the last stage of consumption, was kindly given a free passage by a waggoner named Richard Hickland from Kumara to Hokitika. He and a miner named John Cordes did all they could to make her comfortable on tbe way, but on arriving at Hokitika about ten p.m. they could get no publican to give her admittance, though they tried afc no less than seven hotels. She was taken to the police station, and thence to the bar parlor of the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre Hotel, where she died in j less than five minutes after arrival. ! A bookmaker named Coleman, who was proved to the stewards of the Dunedin Jockey Club to have been guilty of dishonest practices, and of using disgusting and abusive language afc the recent meeting, has been J warned off the Dunedin course. The stewards ' decided " thafc no horse trained by him, j owned by him, or iu any way under his care, joint care, management, or direction, be ever i permitted to run on the Dunedin course or | on any course whereon the Dunedin Jockey Club shall hold their meetings. Should such | horse by accident be permitted to starfc, the [ said horse shall be declared distanced should he come in first. . He who writes for the Age from " Under the Verandah," relates the following incident in the experience of a thirsty juryman.— Anticipating a prolonged sitting in the jury room, he was rather unhappy on leaving his house in the morning. "I'd take a flask of brandy," said he to his wife, "but the other men would see me drink it, and perhaps report it to the judge." The lady told him to wait for two or three minutes, and at the end of that time returned with two babies' feeding bottles filled 1 with stiff brandy and water. ' Put one in each breast coat pocket," she told him, " and when you want a drink all you have to do is to quietly take out the tube and havo a draw. You can drink while the Judge is looking at you if you do it carefully." The jury were out much sooner than was expected-alittle after seven o'clock in the evening— bufc the lady assured me that there wasn't a drop left iu either of the bottles, though she had calculated on their lasting till midnight.