R.M.COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4153, 1 July 1892, Page 3

R.M.COURT.

fiOASTERTON.-FRIDAY, (Before Colonel Roberts, R,M.) FOUL CDIMNIE3, W. J, Smith and George Allen pleaded guilty to allowing their cbimnies to take fire and were fined 5s and Is coats, LICE IN SHEEP. Hugh Campbell, for offering for sale sheep infee'ed with lice, was fined £1 and 7b costs, YAGMOY. John dialling Bagnell pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Queen street yesterday, He denied, however, that he was a vagrant. Sergeant M'Ardle stated-that the accused was a great annoyanco to the town, He had been begging from people coming cut of church, from banks, and from the Post Office officials, stating that be had a brother a bank manager and that he was expecting remittances from Home. Documentary evidence was adduced, Bhowing that the acowgfld had only been four years in the Cfftiy and that the most of this time had been Bpent in gaol. The accused, in making a statement, declared that his brother was a bank manager in Sunderland, He pleaded that he had not been quite compos mentis when begging, and asked to be dealt with lenjently. Ho pointed out that gaol lip] ho rnanany good—that he became 8,!! harr]er case" every time ho went tjiere. New Zealand was a flourish: jng country, but ho had done nopd in it. If given another chance' he would make his way back to England as soon as possible, On % charge of (IrunlfenneßS tho accused was fined five shillings, in default twenty four hours and for vagranoy was sentenced to six weeks'

hard labor in the Wellington Torrnoe Gaol. rEOHIBITIOK ORDER, On the application of Mr fownall a prohibition order, extending over the Wairarapa R.M. District, was issued against a Masterton resident. ASSAULT, Mr Bunny intimated that the charge of assault laid against Cuckoo Karaitiana by Orlando Prangnell would not be pressed, the defendant having apologised, The case was thereforewithdrawn.