RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5328, 25 April 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wednesday, April 24 (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq,, 8.M.) NEGLIGENT CARRIAGE DRIVERS. Thomas Taylor, James Guilford, John Callaghan, John Fuller, Thomas Ritson, Henry Trueman", and W. F. Oakes were severally fined Is. and costs for contravening the city by-law through neglecting to have a card showing the scale of charges exhibited in a prominent part of their vehicles. The informations were laid by Mr. Johnson, Inspector of Hackney Carriages,' and Mr. Ollivier prosecuted. The defendants admitted that they had no cards displayed, but pleaded various excuses; some saying that they had cards under the seats of their carriages, but there was ho convenient place where they could nail them up. Mr. Ritson, one of the defendants, stated the passengers would pull the cards down, and added that they might be blown away. He complained of the Inspector stopping his vehicle for such an offence.

Robert Mi-.Tennet and Terence Gormeley were each fined sa. and costs for similarly offending. : Robert Somerville, who was also summoned, stated that he had provided cards for his vehicles, and the Benchlet him off with a caution.

Eob'ert McTennet, John Williams, Joseph Desmond, and Thomas Ackers were each fined ss. and costa for driving without a license.

Samuel Pudney and Christopher Sommerville were both fined Is. and costs for neglecting to take out licenses. Robert Taylor, for leaving his horse and express cart unattended in a public thoroughfare, was fined 10s. and costs, and Charles Tender was fined Is. and costs for driving round the corner of Lambton and Custom House quays at a pace faster than a walk. WASTING CORPORATION WATER. Mr. Henry George Nicholls, of the Panama Hotel, was summoned by Inspector Johnson for allowing water supplied to him by the Corporation to run to waste. Mr. Ollivier appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Gordon Allan for the defence. James Henry Baird deposed -that when passing the Panama Hotel on Saturday night last he heard the sound of water running, and on looking into the back yard of the hotel he observed a tap turned on, and the water running from it into a sink. . He at once informed defendant of the fact, and had the water turned off. He had found the water running to waste at the same place on a former occasion. Defendant said he was not the proprietor of the hotel, but merely a servant there. It was defendant’s son who was the proprietor. The license had been issued in witness’s name because bis sou was under age at the time. A clerk in the Corporation office proved that the water rate had been paid by defendant. His Worship fined defendant 20s. and costs. POLLUTING A STREAM. Mr. H. S. Phillips was summoned for polluting Te Aro stream by allowing nightsoil to flow into it. _ ; Inspector Johnson said he visited the premises of defendant in Cuba-street on the 17th inst,, and found the contents of a closet flow into Te Aro stream. This was extremely dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the locality. Defendant said the Corporation set an equally bad example, as they allowed the contents of a closet near the wharf to flow into the bay. _ His Worship said defendant had his remedy against the Corporation. What they did was no excuse for him in the present case. To allow such a nuisance to exist in a crowded neighborhood was most dangerous. Defendant was fined 10s. and costs.