RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1699, 13 June 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAT. (Before W..FjBABEB,Esg[.,B,MO DAMAGING A FENCE. Mary Mitchell and William Loder were charged, with unlawfully-breaking down ■a fence, the property of Jpsepli Jsuck|ey, doing damage tc> t^e amount of 10s. /' Mr. Macdonald for defendents; Mr. Podd for plaintiflF. ." Aftor hearing a portion of the evidence, s^'liich. appeared to: Jndicato that the matter arose oup of a disputed title, the Bench dismissed the;case pu fhe ground that it had no jurisdiptipn..: UNCLEAW PEEMISESV ; Catherine Jkp_c.Ci),rtl»y was charged with having neglected to clean her premises situated in Oweij-street, Grahamstown, by which an offensive smell was caused. Mr. Macdonald for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. - • • J. B. M'ascn, swo,rn —I know the defendant— she keeps the Metropolitan Hotel, Cl-rahamstown, I visited the premises and found the earth glbspt very dirty ac 4 pvprflpwing. : I -saw a yoiung man who wajj in charge of the lio'usc. The yard is clean*, the floor of the closet was ajso clean. Fined IDs and costs, . : ' CHIMNEY ON EIRE. John F, O'Brien was charged with allowing the chimney of his house to take fire on the ,10th instant. Defendant pleaded guilty, but said he had not been in tho house very long and did not know the chimney was in a dirty jpiai^* -.' .". : ' -;-■■• '■■ :■■ ••■«• .'-' '■> ■" ! inec^ as and posps. " Court adjourned.' '