RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT
THIS DAY. ■ (Before W. Fraser, Esq., R.M.) ALLEGED ASSAULT. John Hope was charged with violently assaulting one Margaret Murphy at TaTaru. There was no appearance of complainant, and defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr Bullen said on the 15th inst. a woman named Mrs Thomas, mother of the plaintiff, had come to him complaining that her daughter, a girl aged 14 year;, had been violently assaulted, and from the representations she had made he had thought it a case for public prosecution, and had Hope summoned. He had since been convinced that the assault was, of a trifling nature. It had sprung out of a children's quarrel, and the.complainant had fallen down. As the girl did not appear he would ask cither that the case be struck out or adjourned. His Worship struck out the case. WANDEBING COW. A person summoned for permitting, a cow to wander on Parawai.road; pleaded guilty and was fined 2s 6d cud costs. Court adjourned.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2996, 21 September 1878, Page 2
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