RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

West Coast Times, Issue 231, 19 June 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before G. G. FitaGerald, R.M.) Monday, June 18. Drunk and Incauable. — Charles Wilson was fined ss, or in default 24 hours imprisonment with hard labor.

Diujnk and Disorderly. — James GazJames Woods, Samuel Frazer, and John Bruce, were severally > fined 5s for drunkenness, and 15s fov disorderly conduct, or in default 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor.

Labceny— William Willcox was charged with stealing a sail of the value of LI. Joseph Eaton sworn, deposed that he was a butcher, and that until quite lately had been residing on the spit, but in consequence of the encroachment of the surf he had not been able to sleep in his tent at night. The witness left his tent last oveninp about half -past seven o'clock ; on his return to it this morning about the same hour, found that the sail in question, besides some calico, had been taken away. The witness gave information to the police, and in company with Sergeant Dyer proceeded to Weld-street, where they found the sail thrown over the prisoner s tent. In answer to a question put by the prisoner, witness said there had been another man sleeping in the tent with him. Sergeant Dyer was called, nnd «corroborated the prosecutor's evidence as far as the finding of the sail over the prisoner's tent. The nrisoner, who was a lad of about seventeen years of age, said that the soil had

been given him by the person who used to sleep in the prosecutor's tent. Mr Fitzgerald remanded the prisoner until to-morrow to give an opportunity of producing this man. Labckny.— Henry Miller was charged with stealing a wooden stretcher of the value of £1. The prosecutor in the former case, Easton, stated that as he was returning to his tent after having found the sail, he saw the prisonor carrying away the stretcher. On asking him what he was going to do with it, prisoner replied that Willcox had given it to him. Willcox was called but denied having given him any authority to remove the stretcher. The prisoner was discharged. Tho Court was then adjourned until eleven o'clock to-day.