RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4536, 4 October 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, October 2. (Before J. 0. Crawford, Esq., E.M.) BREACHES OF LICENSING ACT. Franklaud Valentine, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory-street, holding a ten o'clock license, was convicted of having sold drink after that hour on Saturday, 25th September. The Bench inflicted a fine of £5 and costa. William I'.bdeu was charged with selling two bottles of wine without having a license. The defendant stated that ha purchased at auction the two bottles of wine in question as Nelson cherry cordial, and that he sold them as such. The following analysis of the contents of the two bottles, made by the Colonial AualyUt, was put in evidence:—Two bottles marked 1 and 2 of reputed colonial wine. These samples have the same specific gravity and appearance, and, as well as I can judge, the same flavor. Examined for alcohol (the distinguishing and common ingredient of wines and other spirituous beverages of commerce) I found alcohol in sample No. 1 to the extent of 12 (52, aud in No. 2 to the extent of 12'64 per cent, by weight. The range of alcohol in a

series of samples of this kind of wine, which I recently analysed, was from 10 - 81 to 15’40 per cent, by weight. Both samples are certainly wines of commerce, and could be readily sold as such, comparing as they do in every respec with our inferior ones. Signed, William Skey Mr. Buckley appeared for the defence, and pleaded extenuating circumstances. The Bench, after remarking on the gravity of the offence as one injuriously affecting the revenue of the colony, and the necessity there was for deterring persons from committing such an offence, fined the defendant £2O, and costs. PROTECTION ORDER. Mary Barry applied for a protection order, and for a sufficient maintenance for her children. The Bench granted the order, directed her husband, Richard Barry, to pay costs, and a weekly allowance of 14s. towards the support of his wife and children. DRUNKENNESS. Sarah James, convicted of being drank and incapable, was fined 205., or forty-eight hours imprisonment. Eichard Woon, convicted of the same offence, was fined 10s., or forty-eighty hours’ imprisonment.