RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT DUNEDIN.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 436, 27 December 1861, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT DUNEDIN.

(Before J. H. Harris, Esq., R.M.) Friday, Dec. 15, 1861. Win. Pollock, for nuisance, fined 2s. Gd and costs. Henry Howorth, for cattle trespass, fined 2s 6d. and costs. Michael Oorey, for using obscene language, fined 10s. Saturday, Dec. 14. Jamas Murray, an escaped prisoner, committed for trial. James Fell, for indecency, find ss. 6d. Goo. Thompson, for obscene language, fined 20s. James Fenton, for wilfully remaining at such a distance from his carriage as not to have command of his horse, fined 10s. and 7s GJ. costs. Charles Newman, A. Wilson, Henry Ford, R Humphreys, B. Davies, and Charles Lawrence, for drunkenness, lined each 20s. or 48 hours imprisonment. Monday, Dec. 16. James Loper, Henry Ford, John Walsh, Edward Coonan, and Wrn Bishop, were severally fined 20s for drunkenness. Tuesday, Dec. 17. Moses A. Lees and Young $ M'Glashan, for unlawfully permitting a nuisance to exist on their premises, were each fined 2s. Gd., and 7s. 7d. costs. Jewries Loper and Geo. IMoodie were each fined, for furious riding in the town, 7s. Gd. and 7s. Gd. costs. J. M'Noill for neglecting to keep the lamp burning over the front door cf his licenßed house, fined 10s. and costs. Catherine Roberts, for petty theft from the premises of Dr. Thomas, of a small reticule, seutenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour. /. Hicks, J. Wefch, Caleb Self,_and_B. Farrow, for being drunk, each fined 20s. or imprisonment. Fatinaut Hallemey, for obscene language, fined 10s. and costs. Wednesday, Dec. 18. John Price, for using abusive language, fined ss. and costs. Mary Allen, for assaulting Pataki, native of Otago—it appeared from evidence that the defen dant would not allow the plaintiff and his wife to go into the Maori lodging house, and on his offering to go iv, she (Mary Allen) took up a basin and threw it at him, he evaded the blow thus aimed at him, she then kicked him. Pined 20s. and costs. Mary A. Archibald and her son, Joseph Williams, were both charged, under the Vagrant Act, with having no visible lawful means of maintaining themselves", the constable deponed to finding them both lying on the street. Sentenced to 2 months imprisonment. Thomas Brown, J. Raarty, J. Fitzpatnck, D. Anderson, and Joseph Young, far drunkenness, were each fined 20s. Thursday, Dec. 19. Henry Townsend, Thomas Wilson, G. H. Clearwater, Jas. Day, awl Felix Dubieuson, for drunkenness, were each fined 20s. or 4S hours imprisonment, Townsend 7 days additional. Fhiday, Dec. 20. John Anderson, alias Burns, for assault and robbery at West Taie.-i, in the mouth of October last. Base waa adjourn jd until Saturda/ for farther evidouee.

Vanii Adam, for t'unoiu ridiug, utiea 5 , -tau ><-•■'• ~\ J. MaUiu-.on and •/. O\3,rjjcr, tor ob.sa'u-:tiaii of thoroughfares, fined ea^li ss. and 79. 6d. costs. J. Ci-ammond, (ho. Bell, and liobt. Wen, for cattle trespass, were each fined.