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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Friday, November 3. (Before J. Giles, Esq., E.M.) Charles Kavanagh was charged with drunkenness. The defendant admitted the offence, and stated that he had already undergone 21 hours' imprisonment. His Worship discharged the prisoner, as it was the first occasion of his appearing before him on the charge of drunkenness. SURETIES TO KEEP THE PEACE. Theresa Gething appeared to answer the information of Aginore Dupuis, asking that she be bound over to keep the peace, in consequence of hor violent behaviour on Thursday, the 26th ult. Mr Home appeared for the informant, and called abundant evidence, which completely bore out the charge of violent conduct of tho defendant. It was shown by various witnesses that she had repeatedly thrown stones at the informant's house, and had also excited her child to do so, the latter having thrown two through the window. The independent testimony of a carpenter named Low, who had been working in the neighbourhood, and \ that of a Mrs Fox, a casual visitor upon Mrs Dupuis, went to show that a gross outrage had been committed by the defendant. For the defence, Elizabeth Webster was called, but did not .appear, and the defendant then gave her own testimony in a very rambling manner. She urged provocation without particularising in what it consisted, and referred to an assault committed by Dupuis upon the Monday following the matter of complaint before the Court. This assault had been admitted by the informant. The latter, she added, had boasted of having been the means of incarcerating Mrs Sullivan, and had threatened that she (defendant) should be the next locked up. During sixteen years' residence in Victoria she never

heard such vile language as was commonly used in the neighbourhood of Lyttelton street. By Mr Home: lam living on my money. I have no occasion to work. I have been housekeeping for three years on the coast, and have only been out of service three weeks. I have paid 20s per week for the education of my child. I have been housekeeping lor a foreigner named Eodering, obtaining from him 25s per week, and lived in Wallabi-street. The witness fenced the ; question as to whether her occupation had been that of a respectable woman, and accouufed for her having saved sufficient out of the 25s per week to keep her after paying 20s weekly for the education of her child, by a loose statement that Rodering made her presents, and never saw her short of a £5 note. His Worship considered the information fully sustained, and bound the defendant over to keep the peace for three months in two sureties of £25 each. CIVIL CASES. Lavette v. Bentley.—Claim for £53 ss. The defendant applied for an adjournment of fourteen days, which was agreed to. Simon v Brown.—Claim for £7 17s sd. Hearing postponed for the plaintiff to supply defendant's christian name, Dupuis v Gething.—Claim for 15s the value of six panes of broken glass unlawfully broken by the defendant on October 26,28, and 30. Judgment for the plaintiff in the amount claimed and costs, Shanahan v M'Mahon.—Claim for £2O 7s Gd, being the amount of defendant's dishonoured promissory note. Judgment for the plaintiff in the amount claimed and costs. Graves and Fleming v M'lntosb. Claim for £4 4s. No appearance of defendaut. Judgment for the plaintin's by default.

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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 883, 4 November 1871, Page 2

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 883, 4 November 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 883, 4 November 1871, Page 2

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