RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT, HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1665, 8 March 1883, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT, HAMILTON.

Yesterday.—Befqijoj fiant* rMoßhersoii, J.P., and His j • Breach of the Borough By-laws. | was charged with driving over the Hamil--^^afficf at^dtl^r thsjqra Walking pace. ' '' j an urgent message .tha^t his child was il(, and wa,s in a hurry,'though as a matter of fact, he did not trot, but only ambled his horses. - j ' , Sergt. McGo\:ern said if the defendant had given 1 tfij| excuse o thi- rie.tt' da&f We would not nave proceeded witn'the chavge. /"' M?tf ,■ ri J The Bench cautioned the defendant, and ordered him to pay the coste 7s. i

Breach of the Licensing Act. i - Arthur Bach, licensee of the Roy^l Hotel, Hamilton East, was charged, o>n the information of Sergt. MeGovern, with having comrmt^ed-a^ $£§ acM °f *Ke Licensing Act by permitting liquor—to wit two &fiilllngsworth|of wliisky4-t«J 1$ soldi in \d House on SiWay'laW.* '*!•./. /; •

Constat(le, tMiirray /deposed, that at about 11 a.im on Sunday he saw a boy Vfinittd. Alexander Smith,, in/ froiit^pf Royal Hotel with .v bottle in hik hand, in which he,isaicl ..was, [twp shillings' worth of whisky, tor his mother, whicii had been served to him by, ftjrsj Bach. "Witness went inside, and saw several, men in the tap-room. He did not see them drinking, but there was beer on tlie table. Mrs Jkeh-., ,was in the bar. On enquiring fpr Mr Bach * witness was told \\o was upstairs. The boy Smith lived, principally with his'm'other iu J Hamilton East. " " 1 , The lad 'Smith', i who,. though som|e, fourteen yeirs ot age, appeared to have rather foggy ideas on ,the subject of the oath, was examined. ' He sajd'ihe had come in from his'father's fafrn'on tlie 'Piako road on Sunday morning and the whisky was for, his father. He lived.on the farm sometimes/and sometimes'with his mother, in Hamilton. , ; , This was tjie case for the police. „ For the defence, Mr' Bach-called Alexander Smith, father of the last witness, who deposed that the' boy fhad gone for the whisky • for him. He lived over three miles from Hamilton. :'lff: 'Iff anWe'r to the (Bench,' witne'As said' it vronlfrbe three milesr by/tb^tpfcl/but he always went through,,f/J-pt. Steele's property, whiclj made ib/j'nioh'ahbVter. The .Bench mlljcted a(l^ue bf^J]* Vl^V 1^ costs, Us 6d, intimating,to,the defendant that the law made ,it r imperative tha,t his license should be endorsed.

■ Civil Case's,!' ",'f''>' . In the following ciises* judgment, >vas given for plaintiff's 'with coats":— 'jAmes Martin v. ,1. Graham' ;' same v. J Ellison ; Gelling j;.,Cumming, lor ra^cs ; Colentian v, CabSicly, vi claim' 'iio B^'2tl for meat/ snppli'ed (costs £5 8s). Mr 'O'Neill '>appea'ied' for' plaintiff in the last-named