RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4419, 19 May 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, May 18. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.)

Drunkenness.— Thomas Jones, William Quince, and James Munce, severally pleaded guilty of having been drunk and incapable of taking care of themselves the previous day, and were fined 10s. each, with the usual alternative ,of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment in default of payment. Assault.— Thomas Byer was brought up charged with having assaulted John Orr. The statement of complainant was to the effect that he kept a lodging-house, and defendant had been a boarder with him, hut on Monday, as he was in liquor, and inclined to he quarelsome, he (complainant) ordered him out of the house. He declined to go, and struck complainant, and also tore his coat.—The Magistrate convicted defendant, and imposed a fine of £1 and costs. As the money was not forthcoming, prisoner was sent to gaol for a month.

Non-Payment of Board and Lodging Account. —Tollens v. McDonald.—This was an information, in which plaintiff, a board and lodging-houge keeper, proceeded against defendant, who had been a lodger in her house, to recover 145., balance of account due. Defendant pleaded set off, inasmuch as that certain articles belonging to him had been left at the house, and were retained by plaintiff. After hearing the statement of the parties, the Magistrate awarded plaintiff 13s. and costs.