RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5681, 14 June 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, June 13. (Before T. A. Mansford, Esq., E.M.) PERJURY.

Alphonsus Eush was charged with having on the 28th May, falsely, knowingly, wilfully, and maliciously committed wilful and corrupt perjury by swearing that on the night of the late Kaiwarra fire Mrs. Phillips, the accused, was in her father’s house at the Taita,and in his (prisoner’s) company, and that she never left him until the day after the fire. This case arose out of the evidence given by the accused on the charge of arson against Mrs. Phillips, his sister. Mr. Bell prosecuted, and the Hon. Mr. Buckley defended. , ■ The first witness called was Sergeant Anderson, who deposed that he administered the oath to accused when Mrs. Phillips stood her trial for arson. : , Ebenezer Baker, Clerk to the Court, testified as to tho accuracy of the depositions. Mrs. 'Williams, landlady of the Albion Hotel, Taita, deposed that on Saturday, the 10th May, she saw accused at her house at seven in the evening, sitting with the servant in the back room. He was there for some time. Lizzie Jane Milrnm, servant at the Albion Hotel, deposed that she knew accused. He had been keeping company with her. She remembered the 10th May last. Accused was with her that night, and remained in the house until eight o'clock at night. She saw him again about three hours later. He passed the house, and returned again after midnight from the direction of the Lower Hutt. Since Mrs. Phillips had been acquitted accused had told witness that the railway guard had not been mistaken, and that Mrs. Phillips had been at Kaiwarra on the night of the fire. Witness had now given accused up altogether as a lover. This was the case for the prosecution. Accused, at the instance of his solicitor, reserved his defence. Prisoner was then, committed 'for trial. Bail was allowed, himself in £SO, and two sureties of £IOO each. ARSON. Sarah Phillips was again charged with setting fire to her house at Kaiwarra. The evidence so far as given was exactly similar to that already published. At two o'clock the further hearing of the case was remanded until this morning (Saturday). (Before Dr. Johnston, J. H. Wallace, and G. Crawford, J.P.s.) DISOBEYING AN ORDER OF THE COURT. William -Hallie, alias Eobert Hall, was

charged with disobeying a summons issued to compel him to appear at the R.M. Court on the 10th inst., to answer a charge of creating a breach of the peace. Ke was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. CREATING A DISTURBANCE. E. J. Walsh, for conducting himself in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, was fined 10s. or 43 hours’ imprisonment. BREACH ON THE PEACE. _ James Woodhouse was charged with fighting in the public streets. Accused proved that he was only acting in self-defence, and was discharged. (Before Messrs. Dransfield and Levin, J.P.s.) LUNACY. T. Buchanan, for being of unsound mind, was sent to the Asylum.