RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

West Coast Times, Issue 628, 28 September 1867, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before G. G. FitzGerald, Esq., R.M.) Friday, September 27. Deunk and Incapable. — Laurence Burke was fined 10s t or in default twentyfour hours' imprisonment. Drunk and Disorderly. — Sarah Allen and Allen M'Lean were each fined Ll, or to be imprisoned for eight and forty hours in default of payment. Obtaining Horses by False Phetences. George Charle3 Colgan, on remand from the 27th August, was charged with obtaining frem Charles Nay twenty horses by false pretences. — Constable Coonan, a member of the New South Wales police force, produced a certified copy of the information, and identified the prisoner as the person named therein. He further stated that in the month of December, 1866, ho had seen prisoner pass through Wellington, New South Wales, driving a mob of horses. — In answer to a question put by prisoner, Detective Dyer stated that he (prisoner) had told bim that he was going to send money to Father Cook, in payment for the horses, a3 he supposed that Father Cook had honored his order. — His Worship committed the prisoner to the gaol at Hokitika, there to await the arrival of the Governor's warrant for his transmission to the Colony of New South Wales. Breach or Dog Nuisance Oudinance. — Walter Williams, for haying an unregistered dog in his following, was fined Ll and costs. The defendant conducted himself in an unseemly manner, and was by order of the Magistrate detaiued in custody until the rising of the Court, when he was fined a further sum of Ll. Bheacii of Police Ordinance. — Informations laid by the police against John Lewis and William Gawne for obstructing the thoroughfares, were dismissed with a caution — John Davison, for obstructing the thoroughfares by allowing two carts to stand in Beach street, was fined Ll. — Harriet Dodfl, for neglecting to keep clean the chimney of her house (the Sho£6"V"er Hotel), was fined L 2. Malicious Destruction of Phopertv. — Martin Kyan was charged, on the information of Henry Cohen, with destroying a fence, the property of the Hebrew congregation, thereby doing damago to the amount pf 40s, fho bearing o? tlw infoi'*

raation was adjourned till the 11th of October, as the defendant was unable to attend through illness. The Court was then adjourned till eleven o'clock on the following day.

The "Wellington Independent," of the 19th instant, says : — " The Hon. T. H. Bartley will, we underatand, resign the office of Speaker of the Legislative Council at the end of the present session. The Government propose to grant him a retiring allowance of L4OO per annum, and a bill was sent down by message to the House of Representatives last night to effect this object. The " Independent" announces that among the passengers by the Otago to Lyttelton was Mr Travers, -who proceeded to Canterbury, for the purpose of finally winding ■ up his affairs, preparatory to permanently taking up his residence in Wellington.

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