RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4952, 5 February 1877, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, February 3. (Before J._'C: Crawford, Esq., R.M.) - ' ~ ; "• DRUNKENNESS. '

" A man" named John Maher, whose appear."ance in Court was not very novel, was charged ■ ' With having been drunk and incapable. De- , fendant admitted'that his condition] on the :' occasion referred to had.been accurately'described, but by way of soliciting the ■leniency 'of the Court stated that he had been " off. , ''drink"'since Christmas. He also promised to . take the pledge, and affected to be/ very peni_l* tent generally. this, howi ever, his Worship, who had such 1 pathetic appeals from the same?, gentleman, ,; fined him 20a. and costs; or, in default, ordered V him to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. '■'r ■:■:■:' . ■ 'assault.,".' ,'.: George W. Smith was charged with assault- ; ingMichael Daly, on Friday night. | It ap- .'■-'■• .peared from the evidence that Michael Daly is the proprietor of a coffee stall, and, to use'. - his. own words, he was working this stall at a -street corner on Friday ; night, when; the' •prisoner came and purchased coffee, arid cakes, """five other .inenlbeing with him. While he was * "~ser ring them he noticed prisoner helping himself to some cigars. He accused him 61 taking 'them, and asted him to give them up. • . The prisoner did not do.ißO, but threw them away instead, and , then. expressed a desire with the others to throw down the stall They then commenced to"; punch" .him. . He called for the police, who to "'bis assistance. Constable Waglan conobo-. ''[' rated the of the complainant. He }'. pursued the prisoner, who had made;off, and *> ; caright him"at the Pier Hotel Smith admitted ' the assault, but repudiated the charge~which _ - ■•. prosecutor in- his evidence had laid] against ■ ■'■• him, namely,-that of appropriating the cigars.. ' He apologised to the complainant, [and informed the Court that a misunderstanding had . arisen owing to some " larking " at the coffee " stall' He vvas fined 405., with the alternative . of going to prison for fourteen days, j • LARCENY.' - •. ■ ' Charles Kelly, charged by Robert Elliott withh'aving stolen a sum of money from, the ,' : , i akuratahi Hotel,, was remanded, on the appli- '■ "'/.cation of the police, till next Monday.; ''r '■ .'' ';'■■■■ '..TV. '■'. A TAOKANX. ~: , -,) i '"' ' ! " ;; ' " ,A man. named James McKenna wfts|charged n with, havingt no lawful visible, means of sup-' :■"■; port-./ 'Heihad'given, himself into custody,'anii -'-\ r to'toteineiit'waß.td'the.'effect..that.he]waS'"tc<>' r ' ; f-j"ilV't<> : ,wor]r, arid, could not obtain admission to ■st - the Hospital, .He was sent; to prison'for-a ■''■' iriontbVnis Worship remarking thathe could '/'receive no other, accommodation from the ;»f Court ; .:;.; 1 —"■-;-' •A THIRSTY SOUL. ' " ■■■'■'■ .',;.. John' Howe, charged with having committed ' : a'breach of the' Merchant Shipping Act,-was -: ; remanded till to-day.: His offence it appeared was helping himself from a cask of wine "' "which bacl gotj staved while in the slings.- ' ' : Another' information had been laid under the • ■. game Aot against & seaman named' Bryne, :belonging;: to the Josephine, ■ but he did not . . appear. ''',.'