RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4574, 17 November 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, November 16. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) James Skinning and Henry Williams were fined for drunkenness.

> Frank Studdard was brought up on suspicion of being of unsound mind. It appeared that the man had drank himself into a maudling condition, and had been protected by the police. Now he was better, so the Magistrate dismissed him with a caution. Peter 0. Anderson was charged with having assaulted his second officer at sea, on board the ship St. Leonards. The evidence showed that defendant had been ordered to do a particular piece of work at the time when he was off watch. He refused, and the mate, after telling him he would be compelled to comply, knocked him down, and defendant responded by hitting his officer on the head with a belaying pin. The Magistrate rebuked the officer for his harsh conduct, and in consequence of defendant having received provocation he would only sentence him to seven days* imprisonment. Peter Stenet was fined ss. for a breach of the Municipal Corporations Act, by walking at a distance from the head of hia horse so as to have no control over the same.

Christina Wilson and Fanny Howell were each committed to three calendar months’ imprisonment for vagrancy. There were two civil oases—Burke v. Oakes, a claim of Til, judgment for defendant, with costs ; and Butcher and Smith v. Price, claim of £l4 55., in which a nonsuit was recorded.