RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 598, 2 April 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before T. W. Pahkkr, Ksq., R.M.) DRUNK. AND DISORDERLY. Toild M'Cregor was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Tyne-.street at an early hour yesterday morning, and again at 10 a.m. yesterday in Thames-street. For the first offence he was cautioned by his Worship, and on the second charge he w;>,s fined 10s. Henry Drury, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Thames-street at an early hour this morning, was discharged with a caution. LUNACY FROM BRINK. John Dixon, who had been apprehended j on suspicion of benig of unsound mind, hut whose mental aberration appears to have been occasioned through drink, was remanded until to-morrow. BEASTTALITY. Charles Moncnr was b ought up, charged with having, at "Dalhousie, Tnaneka, on the nth November, 1577, committed the offence of heastiality. Sub-Inspector Smith stated that the man had been arrested on a warrant issued by the Lawrence "Bench. He had telegraphed for the warrant, but had not yet received it. The prisoner acknowledged that he was at Dallumsie about the tune stated. He was arrested by Constable Joyce on suspicion of being the man described in the Police Ua:f«cJov whose arrest a warrant had been issued for beastiality. Ho asked for a remand for a weak, or until lie received the warrant.

Remanded for a week. XriSANCK. John M"'Sweeney, Emma Roberts, and Henry M "Council, were charged, on the information of the Inspector of Nuisances, with having permitted a nuisance to exist on their premises: on the 2Sth March. The Inspector stated that he had complained to the defendants about the matter, but the nuisance had not been abated. One of the defendants (M"Sweeney) being absent in iHmedin as a witness at the Supreme Court, the ease was adjourned until Thur-day next, at 10 a.m.