RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT, HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1844, 1 May 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT, HAMILTON.

Wednesday.— (Before Mr H. W. Noithcroft, E.M., BREiCH OF THE LICENSING ACT. Rich \ki> Geohoe, license of the Whatawhata Hotel was chaiged with this offence, in that ho was absent from his licensed hou-,e fiom the 3rd to the 27th Apul. Defendant who pleaded that he had been kept away owing to the serious illness of his wife, was cautioned. BIIEVCH OF BOROUGH BY-L VW3. B. 0. Beale, for allow ing his chimney to catch fire, received a caution. FURIOUS RIDINU. ( Jrove Vowless and Walter Coop, were charged with riding along Grey-fetreet, on the 21st April, at a furious pace. Mr O'Neill appeared for the defendants and pleaded guilty. He explained that on the day in question, Coop married Vowle&s' sister, and if anybody ought to be excused for furious riding 1 , it wab surely a man in Mr Coop's position. The Magistrate fined each of the defendants os with costs.

BRUNKKS'NESS. Michael Bailey was charged with having been chunk and disorderly the previous night. Sergt. McGovern .said the prisoner was in a fflthy state of intoxication, and behaved \ cry badly. His Worship inflicted a fine of 20s, with the alternative of a week's imprisonment. BREACHES OP THE 800 REGISTRATION ACT. R. R. Ralph and Samuel Smyth were each fined 5s and costs for neglecting to register their dogs. Defendants pleaded that they had paid the tax before receiving the summons, but his Woiship told them that the act only exempted them when the money was paid before the information was laid, which had not been done in the prebent instance. LARCENY OF A SADDLE. Pare, a native, was charged with having, on the 2nd Apiil, stolen a saddle and bridle valued at 355, the property of one Patrick Crosbie, Prisoner admitted taking the articles, but said he found them on the side of the road. From the evidence of the prosecutor and others, it appeared that Grosbie had ridden the horse from his father's place, Kirikiriroa, to the railway crossing, where he got on the ballast train and proceeded to his work, turning the horse loose. This was his usual custom. The horse was subsequently found near the Peach Grove, minus the saddle and bridle. Prisoner was seen to pass by the place on a bare-backed horse, and it was presumed the temptation to acquire a saddle and bridle was too strong for the native mind to resist. The police deposed to the arrest of the prisoner, who had gone to the Piako, and to recovering the stolen property. The Magistrate held the charge proved, and fined the prisoner four times the value of the saddle and bridle, with costs, the whole amonnting to about £12. A few small debt cases were also dealt with.

Messrs Friar and Davies, of Huntly, have been appointed sub -registrars of dogs in the Rangiriri outlying district. William Sinden, Alexandra, notifies tbat ho is not responsible for any debts his brother, James Sindon, may incur. The half-yearly balance-sheet of the Waipa County Council is publjsbed in another column,.