RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2180, 13 April 1870, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

• Chbibtchtjbch—April 12. [Before 0. 0. Bowen, Beg., R.M. ; T. W. Maude, and E. Wilkin, Esqe., J.P.b'] Dbuhk akd Ikoapablb—Bartholomew Goldingwaa fined ss. AsflAUlT—Jane McLeod was brought up in custody on a charge of assaulting her husband, Hagfa MoLeod. Detective Feast statwi prisoner on the Ferry road jeeterdftt Afternoon. She was getting out of i cab with another prostitute. Acoueed wee the wone for liquor. A child who had been left in charge of the house during her mother , * absence, asked witness to turn a man out who refused, to leave. This man was also drank, and bad put his head through a window. : Hugh MoLeod deposed that he left hie wife in town while he was up oountry, but from reports he heard he was induced to wturn to town. He visited her home on Suofyi and a man who was there threatened to Ute hie life, and hit wife told him he would never be right until he got a good hammering. Owing to the treatment witness reoeWed, hV had to leave the house. He is anxious to obtain possession of his children, but bii wife will not give them up. Mr Inipwtof Pander, sworn, said that the prisoner some time back was brought before the Bench with Sirs Darbj and others. She was then cautioned as to he? behaviour, and directed to remove from the house ehe wbi then occupying in Madras etreet. Sinoe that time she has been residing en tie Ferry road, and has been going from bad to worse. Complaints are ccnitantly being made about her behaviour and the behaviour of thoee who frequent her house.. The Bench committed her to prison for three months with hard labor.

CITH Cases— Judgments for plaintifie vcn given in the following cases —Hobbs uri Sons v Bead, £2 17a 9d and costs 9a ; BeanvEdde, £3 7s 8d and costs 9a ; Bean y Coker, 16s 4d and costs 9s; Bean v Mcliuehlan, 9e 10d and costs 9s; White la* Dalwood v Barnard, £11 13s 6d and costs 265; Boot v Hamilton, £5 3s and coete IBis Settle v Smith, judgment summons, £4 h, ordered that debt and costs be paid at the rate of 10s per week. Hobbs and Sons v Nbrthoote, judgment summons, £3 16s, Wfdered that debt and costs be paid at rate of 7« 63 per week, in default one months' impriwnnwnt.