RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 95, 30 September 1863, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before M. Price, Esq., R.M.) Tuesday, 29th Sept. Pischabged. — John M'Creaden, arrested upon suspicion of embezzlement, was, upon the application of Mr Commissioner Weld on, discharged. Stray Horses. — John Campbell, charged ■with allowing a horse to stray, was fined ss. Nuisance. — Two cases of persons having nuisances on their premises, were brought np at the instance of the Inspector of Nuisances. His Worship in pronouncing sentence, commented upon the injudicious conduct of sensible men, with their heads screwed on the right way, like the defendants, in, after receiving due notice, still lovingly adhearing to these nuisances. Now that the warm weather had commenced, the town would be visited with fever and every kind of malaria, if nuisances were not abated. It was the duty of all respectable people, such as he saw the defendants were, instead of creating noxious influences, to aid the police in suppressing everything detrimental to the sanatory condition of the town. He would fine|the defendants 40s. and hoped this would ■work as a warning, and that thenceforth there would arise fewer occasions for criminal prosecution on the score of nuisances. LICENSING COURT. (Before M. Price,- Esq., J.P.,and 11. M'Culloch, Esq., J.P.) Arthur Collins applied for a license for his house in Dee-street. The Commissioner of Police stated that he could not recommend the applicant for a license iintil his house was completed. The walls wanted papering, and the lower storey was very deficient in ventilation.. The Bench adjourned the grant, until proper additions werp made. William Wilkinson, through his solicitor Mr S. M. South, applied fer a license for his house in Esk-street ; also, for a twelve o'clock licence. Mr South said that Mr Wilkinson kept a respectable boarding house, and that his boarders naturally of an evening sought the public amusements of the town, and that when they returned after eleven o'clock, they reasonably expected to procure some little vinous refreshment. The establishment was conducted on the most regular principles. The Commissioner of Police said he could not recommend the house, for the reason that it was not properly completed. The Resident Magistrate said that his brother Justice objected to twelve o'clock licenses. Mr South proceeded to argue out the case for his client; and, after some discussion it was adjourned for a week, that the premises might be completed. Patrick Sullivan applied for a license for a .house iv close proximity to the Southland Neios office. It was granted at once.