RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.—GISBORNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1232, 23 December 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.—GISBORNE.

This Day, M. Price, Esq., R3l.] riding on the footpath. Eru Manati i a was charged with riding on the footpath in Gladstone Road. Constable Farmer proved that although warned not to cross the footpath the defendant did so from the vacant lot between the Albion Hotel and the Council Chambers on to the Gladstone Road. The defendant said he had often seen others doing the same thing, and he thought it was not wrong of him to do so. Fined 20s. and costs, or in default seven days’ impxisonment. CHARGE OF ASSAULT. William Williams failed to appear to an» swer a charge of assault upon Mr Henry Camion. The summons it appears had never been issued, and the Bench then made it returnable for next Thursday morning. A prohibition order, Mrs Mary Maher applied for a prohibition order by which her husband, Patrick Maher, could not obtain liquor in the town of Gisborne. Mary Maher deposed that in consequence of her husband’s excessive drinking the peace and happiness of her home was destroyed. His conduct was so bad that she thought it was time to put a stop to it. He drank whenever he could get it. When drunk he was quarrelsome. She would not have brought the charge if he would only bu quiet. He quarrelled with his sons, but never laid hands on her. He sometimes got drunk three times a day. Witness did not know where he got the drink. Sergeant Bullen proved the defendant had been twice convicted of habitual drunkenness. Patrick Maher made a rambling statement. His Worship, after a severe lecture, made an order forbidding all publicans in the Licensing District of Poverty Bay to supply Patrick Maher with liquor. The defendant: That’s hard lines your Worship. His Worship: I’m perfectly well aware of that, but I purposely put it that way because you are so fond of liquor that you would walk to Makaraka for it. But you will find that now you w r ill have to walk considerably further before you are enabled to get anything.