RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Southland Times, 22 January 1864, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I . Wednesday, 20th January, 1864. I (Before M. Price, Esq., K.M.) I Intoxication. — Five unfortunate votaries I of Bacchus were fined in the usual penalties I for over indulgence. I Charge of Theft. — Gregory Nicholas was I accused of stealing a pocket-book and some I " money. Erom the evidence it appeared that I be and another had found the book and I money in Canterbury, and il being supposed I that he had gone southwards a warrant for I his apprehension was issued from Timaru . 1 Acting on that, Constable Purcell appreI henderl him at Myross Bush, and recovered 1 the pocket-book, with certain documents. 1 Prisoner, -who had nothing to say in defence, ■ was remanded for eight days, 1 CIVIL CASES. 1 Hemingway v. Jordan. — Claim for J I £4 14s 6d, for goods supplied. Judgment for 1 plaintiff. I Hoai> v. Campbell. — Claim for £5 5s 6d, I for goods supplied. Judgment by default, I for plaintiff. yl Hoad v. CuMsnNG. — Claim for £.!} '2s Gd, I for goods supplied. Judgment by default, 1 for plaintiff. 1 Goxtklay v. Hart. — A ease of chimney 1 building, . without agreement. Piaintiff a l charged L2l ; defendant had paid L2O, and so l the action was for the remaining Ll. After rfm hearing_evidence the case was adjourned in !•■ order to have witnesses who would assert . I whether the chimney was worth L2O or L2l. "" 1 Binney v. Elliot. — Claim for Ll 8s 6d. 1 Judgment for plaintiff, with costs. jj 9 l Matheson- v. Cassels.- Claim for L 4 12s. ct I Judgment for plaintiff, with costs. x\ Salek v. Akers. — Claim, £15 12s, for a- 1 hard and lodging. \ Judgment by default for i plaintiff. its! Nixon v. Shaw. — Claim for £io ss, forßiUeged to be due as -wages. Plaintiff had ms-Sfeen engaged as waiter in the Alhambra i e9 «3otel, ; ,and got notice on Thursday last that services would not -be required beyond 'flhp week. Next day lie left at the most 're»Mtaportant time — dinner hour— saying he was 'er- Binned elsewhere. Defendant stated that he ntsßfered to pay him £7 4s 6d, but this was P^Mtfused. Judgment for that sum, and the '■"jsts— amounting to 153 — to be paid by '°^|«Wiff. b-'» Sayers v. Archrh.— Claim, £16, for LojSktnage to furniture on board the schooner 'Pope. Judgment for plaintiff. tion-1 Ernest v. -^Action for £5 \q s ices,*! s3 .' alleged to' b"e due for wages. "After hearla111)? evidence,' judgmentr was given f O r 4 S .. b .»^ 1 less costs. •:,.■. . , , oacim of unimjptprtant cases were distu^^edof.-. it :,..; '•,/^v;,,:, -•- . ■ ■ • iia Thuksday, January 215t,1864.---isaUBA. Violent Lodger. — A person calling r fo^Hmself Henry Black, was charged with /flWully damaging property to the value of r »[, i- roni the evidence it appeared that

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prisoner "put up.' ? at a certain 1 hotel" in town, itnd -after some- nocturnal, wanderings he returned there mi the previous night. the doors closed, he valiantly forced 'in a Window, and made his entrance -in that., unrisfaal manner. ;He . was) fined ,205,, and.' ordered.to make good, tlie 'damage. „ :. .' VVn TJnwki,comb WooEit.- -Gporge Titmouse, though not answering to tne name by- ■ appearance, answered the call of the clerk by ' appearin<T to hear a charge; of fhaving coh'ducted himself so as to provoke'^ a -breach .'-of the peace. i; It seems that; master Gvorge was very intimate with a lady, whose virtue, it is asserted, would n/>t bear the strictest investigation. The gentleman was desirous iof visiting- her at her private residence, but this fayor she resolutely denied. Like a true cavalier, master George was not to be baulked, and accordingly, failing -access by the door, he scaled the building, and descended into {he interior by the ; chimney. , This extraordinary conduct alarmed the lady, and her cries brought a policeman to her aassistance. The result was, that the hero of the adventure was fined ,£5, with the pleasant alternative of one month's imprisonment.