RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XI, Issue 1370, 29 March 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Chbistohuroh—Maroh 28. [Before C. C. Bowen, Esq., R.M.] John Molyneux, David Hudson, Alexander MoCall, and William Lexton, were all charged with being drunk and incapable on tho 27th instant. Prisoner Hudson, who had been up before the Court on a previous occasion, was fined 10s, and tho other prisoners wore discharged with a caution, the Resident Magistrate at the same time remarking that tho crime of drunkenness was becoming bo fro. quent that in future instead of dismission tirat offenders with a caution, he should be compelled to inflict a lino. G H. Sharpe was lined 10s for allowing his cattle to trespass on tho line of ruihvay. Two cases against Patrick Garrigan, for allowing his cattle to trespass ou the South Town Belt, were adjourned until the 4th proximo. John Hossock and J. Hicks wero Cued 5i each, and Thomas Price, J. S. Jameson, John Kountroe, — Wylde, and James Wood, 10s each for a breach of the Cattle Trespass Ordnance. Alfred Porter appeared to nnswer a charge under the Stamp Duties Act of 1866, viz., tint of neglecting to stamp a promissory ntto, which had.been produced in evidence iv a oiti case before the Resident Magistrate. Ilia defendant said he admitted the charge, and pleaded inadvertence, and said he would take care that it never happened again. Ths Resident Magistrate said that the defendant was liable to a line of £50, but owing to his belief that it was an unintentional breach of the law ho would dismiss the caso this time with a caution. Thomas Ryan and Patrick Ryan wers charged, on the information of J. T. Cain, with assault. The Resident Magistrate, after hearing the eviience on both sides, decided that all the parties were to blame, and ha would therefore dijmils the case, each party paying their owa costs. He said that the district where ths offence was alleged to have been committed, viz., about the Wheatsheaf tavern, was a most disorderly one, and he hoped that with a warning none of the parties would appear before him again. Thero had been sa»eW complaints from that district, and he hoped this would be the last. Louis Coutts and Henry Anderson were charged by Robert Gibson with an assault. From the evidence it appeared that defendants had gone to tho house of the complainant with a view to chastise him for some alleged scandal which he had originated about tha. defendants' wives. The Resident Magistrate, alter hearing tho evidence, said that he wm of opinion that the defendants had done wrong in attempting to redress their own injury, U there hud been one; he would therefore floS them 10a each. The license for the Royal hotel, Christchurch, was transferred from Albert Cuff to his brothor Edwin Cuff. Richard Bethell, John Maddison, and I*M Brothers, were granted slaughter-houß9 licenses.