RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4561, 2 November 1875, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, November 1. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., Jt.M.) Andrew McCormick was charged with being illegally on the premises of Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart. Prisoner, who was a strong able-bodied man, capable of anything in the way of hard work, could give no satisfactory account of himself ; and it appeared from evidence that he had been in the habit of begging for a livelihood, one of the witnesses deposing to prisoner's having begged from him the price of a bed. His Worship committed the man to gaol for one month, remarking that he would have no chance of loafing or drinking during his confinement, which he hoped would have a salutary effect upon him. Margaret Smith and Frank Follard were convicted of drunkenness, and were each fined in the sum of ss. and costs, with the usual alternative. Henry Wright was charged with being a vagrant, and was dismissed with a caution. Francis Stevens was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. The offence was proved, and defendant was fined 205., or in default to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. CIVIL CABEB. The following civil business wan disposed of : J. McDonald v. It. Eeid.—Claim of £lO. Judgment for defendant, with costs. C. Fisher v. D. Richards.—Claim of £lO, arising out of dispute about the ownership of a cow. His "Worship recorded a nonsuit, with costs. A number of cases instituted by the New Zealand Titanic Steel and Iron Company were on the sheet for hearing, but only two of them eame before the Court, the others being settled in different ways.