RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE Before W. N Searanke, Esq. CRIMINAL.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 451, 8 April 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGIST RATE'S COURT, CAMBRIDGE Before W. N Searanke, Esq. CRIMINAL.

John Brown, chai-orpcl with drunken and' disord -i-lv conduct, ponded guilty, and was committed for seym days' imprisonment. William Walker, of the Duke of Cnm*>rHsr* Hotel, was charged on the information of Frederick Seeker, with using abusive language. The defendant did not appear and cons-q'ip-il.lv th« charg " was dismissed with fall costs. Mr H*v, who appeared for the defendant, was surprised at the conduct of the informant, and wished th» case eve'i without his evidence, to proceed. H : s Worshin decided that the case could not procoel, aiid Mu Hay Ihen addressed the court on the extra^rdifiarv conduct of the informant in laving an information against a resjyc' able man. and &Wi%& tim Q of hp-tr-in^ not apn°irinsf to supp«n*t th^wiV^p. H 1 stated that he had six witnesses to disprove the charge laid in th^ information. Tase dismiswd with cost — £i 2^5, which th^ R.M. hop' j d would be a I'sson1 'sson to the infornvmt to abstain from laying similar charges in futur\