STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2125, 5 February 1897, Page 3

STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Alaroa, T?oaBDAT, Fbb 4. A. 1. McOrbo-.r and G-. Saxros. Esq 's J.'bE. civil gauss. James Bell v D. M. Lit'le, claim £1 : -bi>. Judgment for plamfctfETfor amount claimed and costs. B. _$?**Grange v S.i Bumford, olsim £1 8* 3d. Judgment for plaintiff for amount chimed and costs. Mr Pdtta appeared for plaintiff: in b»th k- cases. I . Insulting Language. & 'William Pidgeon was charged with Biatag insulting language -to the Police. Kir Potts appeared for defendant. ■ ConMnble Scully said be was standing ■with Constable Scully, jun., near4he Criterion Hot»i, and W. Pidgeon walked over flkCouslabte Soully jun., and said ' Why did ftip my boy going for tbe Doctor ? are too officious*' Constable Scully i »»id ' I did not know he was going a Doctor,' and Pidgeon arid * It is a Pidgeon was standing close to CooH&ble Scnliy, and some men present Hipped their bands as if applauding HPter Pidgeon epoke. vßy Mr Pctts—Constable Soully stopped Pihe boy from galloping up a steep bill. The boy was going borne wben'Ooastable Scully stopped bim, and was not on his' <w»y to the Doctor at all k /Alex. .A. Soully, Consiable, said that •on rjaiurdsy., Jao.J9ih, he waa in ..avaud street >bl_ senior, about 10;15 p.m. When 'tbey oearefl Adamb' Hotel it was •Closed, and 'lbs usual otowd were about. Bis senior dropped'behind, and When be wae lef r alone the aociwedl( ; Pidgertjri) came across -the road and accosted biroTwying ;■ he had no right 'to -atop bis boy when be seat him for H;be d_Bto*_ Witness said he-had not done co. 'Pidgeon said,: "You did stop him;" and witness again: when Pidgeon said, "It's a lie ; ; jou did stop himJ'- Witneßß could not he! •quite certdn Pidgeon said it was a lie, Pidgeon, in a menacing manner,: touched bim on the breast, Baying • You are too damned offioioos." He told him to : > keep bis bands off bim. After this the, crowd signified -their approval of Mr fPidgeon's conduot by dapping thrir hands. With regard to stopping Pidgeon's boy, he might say that about a week or ', (ten days before the 9th be waa returning from tbe police .paddock, and when near- ; ing tbe lower end a boy Shot round the. ■corner and galloped op tbe'hill. 'I said, '•Pull up that rboree,' and be did. I asked what be meant by riding furiously on a •public road, and coming round the corner: at such a pace; that it might mean great; ■daoger to other travellers. He said hi* horse was flash and be could not control bim. I told tbe boy, who, I believe, said his name was Frank Pidgeon, that be must get better gear and restrain bis 'horse, and reported the matter to my senior. Did not know till afterwards that tbe boy bad been going for a dootor. The boy never told me he had been for a doctor or was going for a doctor. Mr Pots said tha boy had been for a 'doctor, and was returning when Constable A. Scully saw bim. Hia father reproaobad bim with being ao 'ong away, as he had ito go elsewhere 00 bis return. The Bench dismissed the oasa: