MAGISTRATE'S COURT, RAGLAN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 375, 3 December 1898, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT, RAGLAN.

Saturday, November 26.—[Before Capt. Jackson, S.M.] Maintenance.—ln the case, Amy Billington v. M. Gal van, defendant was ordered to pay 6s per week. Costs were not allowed. Refusing to leave Licensed House. —P. Middlcmiss was charged by the police with refusing to leave the Harbour View Hotel on the 7th November when requested to do so by the licensee.—W. J. Smith, licensee, deposed that he had a lot of persons in the hotel on the night in question, and he saw Constable Tapp after closing time in his house. The accused was there. He could not say he (witness) asked defendant to leave the premises. The words he used were, •' i think it is through you the troublewas caused this evening." He did not tell him to go out of the house, neither did he say " Middleinas, you go."—Constable Tapp deposed that he heard a lot of people in the hotel on the night mentioned, and went in to see what was going on. He taw six people there who were not lodgers, and the same number of persons who were. AJcer speaking to Smith, he heard him say to Middlemiss " You go." He did not hear what Middlemiss replied. Then Smith again told him to go, but Middle* miss said he had no richt_ to interfere with them, as they were in a private room, and could stop there a 3 long as they liked. —Case dismissed. [Messrs Bankart and Pegler, J.P.s, took their seat on the Bench}. Abusive Language. —C. Johnstone was charged by the police with using abusive language to Ross King in a public place, to wit Bow-street, on October 31st. The constable asked to have the information amended by inserting the words, " In the back yard of the Harbour View Hotel." The Bench did not accede to this, Judge Connolly having ruled that an hotel yard is not a public place. King having given evidence, the Bench dismissed the case, the verandah of the hotel not being a public place within the meaning of the Act. The S.M., however, cautioned defendant as to his future conduct.