RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1164, 11 December 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

HAMILTON. (Before H. W. Northcroft, Esq,, R.M. Capt. Steele, and Dr. Beale, J.P.'s.) Thomas Uealey, charged with a breach of the railway by-laws with being drunk on the railway pUtform at Frankton on the 28'h ult , pleided guilty, and wm fined 20s and costs. On a second charge of using indeoant language at the sacae time and place, the same defendant vtm fined 403 and cost?. John Short was obarged with a breach of the " Cruelty to Animals Aot, 1878," section 4, having overcrowded a number of cattle m conveying them by railway from P«pftUur&. John Brierly deposed to defendant lelling him on arrival of the train' fit Mercer that three or four of his oattle m the truck were dead. The truck wa3 overcrowded. The truck was unloaded, and witness then saw one of tho cattle lying dead m it— a beast m poor oouditlon. The cattle were from three to one year old. Wm. Such, guard of the train, fctatad that the cattle wero overcrowded.

Thomas Mills, a porter at Ohtupo, gave evidence that when the five waggon loads of cattle arrived at Obaupo, 94 bead m all, there were two de*d m one waggon and one m another. Ib was too dark to Bee if the waggons were overloaded. John Short deposed: I am a farmer living atOrakau. On the 6;h instant I loaded cix traoks with 00 head cattle at Papakara— 4o calves nnder one year old, the rent mainly young heifers. The truck left at Mercer had : a it 20 calves under one year old. I did not think it wiiß overcrowded. Id another Iruok were 12 beasts two years old, and old cowb, pnrae very poor and some very wild. Tney had plenty of room. It is impossible to overload at I'apaknra, as the door of the truck, consequent on the bridge position, oan only be shut by going inttide tHe truck. To the Court: I beltevo lhs oabble being poor and wild caused tne death of of threo of thetu. E. Eyes, station-master at Papakura, deposed to assisting m loading tho trucks, and that they were not overloaded. The case was dismissed Tho charge* against Augustus Vinctmt end John Browning, of rescuing homes from the pound -keeper at EaaO .Htau/il* ton was also distressed.