RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GISBORNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1040, 23 February 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GISBORNE.

Tuesday, February 21, 1882. [Before M. Pines, Esq , R.M.] Winter v. AVhakataka. No appearance of either party. Case struck out. Reynolds v. Thompson. Claim £'>, for paddocking a marc from March, 1880, to July, 1881. Undefended. Verdict for plaintiff for full amount claimed with costs. Police v. Pekama. The accused was brought up in custody, charged on the information of Constable Walsh with refusing to quit the bar of the Argyll Hotel after being requested by Solomon John Cohen, servant of the proprietor, Thomas James Dickson, so to do.

Sergeant Bullen prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. Mr Woon acted as Interpreter. Solomon John Cohen, sworn, deposed: lam a barman in the employ of Mr Dickson, of the Argyll Hotel. I know the prisoner. I saw him in the bar of the hotel on the 20th inst. The other barman had served him with three drinks for which he paid with a half-sovereign, receiving his change. He then asked me. for some more drinks which he was supplied with. He pulled some change out of his pocket and wanted his money back, and commenced making a disturbance, taking up a half-pint pewter and brandishing it about and threatening me. Mr Dickson then came and told him to leave the bar, but he would not desist until the policeman was brought, when ho was taken into custody. In my opinion the prisoner was not drunk. Thomas James Dickson, sworn, deposed : I know the accused. He was in my bar on the day in question. When I came in he had his coat and hat off, and was gesticulating with the barmen. Knowing his temper I advised him to take his coat and hat and ordered him to leave. On his refusing 1 sent for a policeman, and Constable Walsh removed him. Constable John Walsh, sworn, deposed : On the day in question I was called into the bar of the Argyll Hotel to remove the prisoner. 1 first asked him to leave, but he refused. I then removed him to the lock-up. ASSAULT. The Court then proceeded with a second charge against the same prisoner, charging him. on the information of Constable ’Walsh, with an unlawful assault by striking him with his fist and kicking him.

When called on to plead, the prisoner said he did not strike the eons'able. He resisted him because he did not want to go to gaol. Constable Walsh deposed that when ho was removing prisoner from the Argyll Hotel he (prisoner') struck him a blow on the breast, and catching bold of a verandah post, commenced kicking; he kicked the skin off witness’s sinus. Mr Gruner came to his assistance, as did also Mr Nasmith, Constable Farmer, and Sergeant Nelson, and it took four or five people to remove him to the lock-up. After some further corroborative evidence had been given, His Worship said that in these eases, as in the Waerenga-n-hika case with which lie dealt the other day, he was impressed with the necessity of the supply of drink to the Natives being put a stop to. He hoped the police would attend to his remarks and do their duty, as there was sufficient power under the Act to enable liem to get at parties offending, and from his own personal observation during the past fortnight he thought the publicans were as deserving of censure as the Maoris, lie then passed sentence as follows: —In the first case, that of refusing to leave the liar of the Argyll Hotel when requested, a fine of 40s and costs with lhe alternative of 7 days’ imprisonment ; and in the second case, that ol assaulting the police, thirty days’ imprisonment with hard labor in the Gisborne gaol. Wednesday, 22nd February. UNLAWFUL RESCUE OF CATTLE. A summons, issued on the information of Michael Boland, charging William Hatton, of Patutalii, butcher, with unlawfully rescuing five bullocks from the custody and possession of the said Michael Boland, the said cattle having been unlawfully seized for the purpose of being impounded, came be fore the Court, but owing to the absence of the defendant, and no return of service of the summons having been made by the police, the case was adjourned until the sitting of the Couit to-day (Thursday).