RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5316, 9 April 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, April 8. (Before J. 0. Crawford, Esq., 8.M.) DRUNKENNESS, Owen Cameron and John Trainer were each fined 10a, with the usual alternative in case of non-payment. . , Michael Doolan, who was also charged with a like offence, and had been locked up since Saturday night, was discharged with a caution. STRAY HORSES. John Puller was fined 10s. and costs for allowing two horses to stray on to the public thoroughfare at Kaiwarra. A similar charge against Alfred Searle was dismissed.

SCABBY SHEEP. Mrs. Anne White, a settler at Porirna, was Summoned by George Richardson, Inspector of 'Sheep, for a breach of the Scab Act, in baving Wdected to give notice to the Inspector within seven days, of the infection of her sheep. ' Mr. Crawford (to defendant); Do you admit the charge? Defendant : I did not know that the sheep were infected with scab. They had not lost their wool, nor was there anything to show that they were infected. Prosecutor stated that he visited the farm of defendant on the 7th ult., and saw several sheep infected with scab. They had been dipped. Defendant; Last year you told me to dip them after they were sheared. Prosecutor : You ought to have reported that the sheep were scabby long ago. Defendant : I could never detect it. William Parkinson, a settler at Porirna, said he had had 2000 sheep under his superintendence for five years. He had examined the sheep belonging to defendant, and could not discover any trace of ■ scab on them. They were perfectly clean, and there was not a bit of wool off them. , , The Resident Magistrate imposed on defendant a penalty of £2 10s., The defendant said there were neighbors of hers with scabby sheep, and they had not been proceeded against, . His Worship said he would deal with them if brought before him.

V,: ■ CIVIL-CASK. Bennett v. Mitchell.—This was a claim of £25 for breach of contract., Mr. Ollivier appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Quick for the defendant. Evidence was given to the effect that plaintiff bought a piece of land from defendant, the latter promising to fence it properly. A fence was put up, but it was alleged to be an improper one. _ Plaintiff; was nonsuited,, each party being ordered to pay his own costs.