RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4566, 8 November 1875, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, November 6. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., K.M.) Robert Munro was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. He was remanded till Monday for the prodnction of a witness, DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. James Mackay, a young and apparently respectable man, was charged with having wilfully and maliciously injured certain property, to wit, the windows of Government House, damage being thereby sustained to the extent of £25. Irwin Charles Maling, lieutenant in the army, and a member of Ms Excellency’s staff, deposed that he had been the greater portion of the day in question at Government House. At about three o’clock in the afternoon heard a smash of windows, the cause being apparently outside the house. He jumped through his office window, and saw the prisoner, making off towards the street. He had a stick iu Ms hand—the one produced. Witness overtook prisoner, and asked him what had induced him to break the windows. His reply was, “ I did did, and I waited to do it.” The windows broken were iu Lord Normanby’s office. There were in all five panes of glass broken, four of them measuring 5 x 4, and one of a smaller size. To the best of witness’s belief, prisoner had no business at Government House. Prisoner declined to examine the witness. Inspector Atchison applied for a remand until Thursday next, when further evidence would be adduced. The remand was granted, and prisoner was removed from the dock.