RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5285, 4 March 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, March 2. A Bailor named William Grant was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Grey-street on the previous night. It appeared from the evidence of Constable Mnrphy that the accused had endeavored to rescue a prisoner when being taken to the lockup, and he was fined 205,, or in default, 48 hours’ imprisonment. Another sailor, named Robert Watson, the mate of the former, and who stated he was too drunk to know what he had done, was fined 55., or 24 hours’ imprisonment. An old offender named Sarah James was likewise brought up as a drunkard. She admitted the impeachment, and stated by way of extenuation that she had only just got out of gaol after doing three months, and if given another chance would not offend again. She was let off with a fine of 10s., or 48 hours’ imprisonment. LUNACY FROM DEINK. A middle-aged man named Joseph Russel! was brought up on this charge, and remanded for a week for medical treatment.

BREACH OF THE WATERWORKS-ACT, .. ".John White, Thompson appeared on ; an information charging him with having committed a breach of the ,Waterworks Act by laying on the water,from one bouse to another, for which he had not been rated. ■ - , , Mr. Ames, .city valuator,-stated that, - the defendant had taken, the water from an .old house to a new one, for, which he had never applied to be rated. It,was, he.deposed, always the custom,for application to he made to the Council iu, the usual way, so that the water rate might be duly or else the water might be used without-.p»ym«nb until. th._ matter had been found out. A number of case's of the kind; bad been lately discovered, and it wa-i intended by the Council to sue that the Act' was strictly enforced, although at present it was desired not to ask for a heavy penalty. ' * . The-defendant stated that he was perfectly unaware that he had to make any formal application to theO"uncit, or In wouldhavedo icso, but he thought hewasquiteat liberty to do ashe al vays did. He w m fined ss. and costs, and at the same time warned that he had been guilty, of an infringement of the Act which left him open to a heavy penalty. HORSES WANDERING. D miel Egan was charged, on, the infoi’mation of Inspector Monaghan, with allowing; two horses to wander on the reclaimed laud.The offence was not denied, the only , excuse the defendant had to offer being that his wife was sick, and they ha strayed from a paddock without his knowledge. His explanation how ever c'»uld not be excepted as the horses had been frequently seen wandering about before, and he was fined 10s. and costs. DRIVING CATTLE DURING IMPROPER HOURS. Thomas Crosbie appeared oti.aa information charging him with driving cattle through the streets of: the.city after eight o’clock iu the morning. It appeared from the evidence adduced that the cattle were driven along the terrace about nine o'clock, and bad frightened n■ horse in a trap belonging to Mr. W Turner, the result b* ing that the horse ! olted, and the trap was damaged to the extent of about £7. : The defendant, who did not deny the offence, pleaded that He was only* a servant; but bis Worship informed him that he was clearly liable under the Act, although his employer wouki no doubt bear the consequences, -The defendant was fine i 10s. and costs.