RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4269, 25 November 1874, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, November 24. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. James Reid was remanded for eight days. A DESEIiTEIt. James Strasenburg, for desertion from the ship Strathnaver, was remanded for a week. LARCENY. William Bennett was charged by Frank Broughton with stealing a pocket-book, containing a gold ring aud other articles. The complainant deposed that prisoner came into his kitchen on Sunday morning last and requested a drink, which was refused. Iu the evening missed a pocket-book from a mantelshelf in the kitchen. It’ contained a gold ring, a gold earring, a photograph, and a Forester’s neck-ribbon. The value was £4. From information Sergeant Monaghan had received, he apprehended the prisoner at the Theatre ou Monday evening. The stolen ring was on the prisoner’s finger. Sarah Barratt knew the prisoner, who lived at the hotel kept by her brother-in-law. The prisoner gave her the pocket-hook on Sunday morning, with a request that she would take care of it for him. It had been handed over to the police. The prisoner-, iu defence, stated that he had possessed the ring for four year’s, but did not account for the pocket-book. He was sentenced to six calendar months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. ASSAULTS. Morris Cronin charged James Wilkinson with assault. Owing to the absence of Mr. Allan, counsel for defendant, at the ViceAdmiralty Court, the case was adjourned for a week. Anne Smith charged Rachael Johnston with assaulting her on Monday evening. Both parties are residents of Maori Row. The complainant accused the prisoner of abusing her and striking her on the forehead with a bucket on the previous evening. The prisoner denied having struck Mrs. Smith intentionally, Dub oictocL . tiiufc complainant had thrown a bucket of water over her, which led to a little disturbance. Mrs. Smith positively denied having done so, and to allow of witnesses being produced, his Worship adjourned the case for a week. CIVIL CASES, Thirteen summonses were issued by the Town Clerk against defaulting ratepayers, eleven of whom settled their debts out of court. The two -remaining cases will be heard on a future day. Judgment was confessed in four other unimportant civil cases.