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Monday, Junto 23. [Before C. Whitefoord, Esq., 8.M., B. Moore, Mayor, and G. H. Blackwell, Esq.] Alliged Absault.— J. Horrell charged Hone Paratene with violently assaulting him on May 13th. Mr Nalder for complainant. Defendant tried hard to obtain an adjournment without alleging any reason for same. It appeared a question had arisen as to the trusteeship of certain Native hud which defendant held he had control over, bnt it was shown that a bridge which he had stopped, and over which stoppage the assault arose, was not in his control. The Resident Magistrate cautioned Paratene as to his conduct, and ordered him to pay the costs.
Publxc-houbh Cabb. —The information against J. Mclllroy, Mandeville Hotel, for Belling liquor on Sunday was withdrawn by the police. A witness named McDee, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued, not having been found. . . Dbitnkenniss. — Timothy Murphy, a previous offender for this-offence, aad now also for using obscene language, was fined 203, or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. DisoEDBBLY Characters.— J. TTill and Annie Hill (with a babe in arms) were charged with mating a disturbance in • house on Sewell street, and the latter with, using obscene language which could be heard on to a public street. Evidence was given by .neighbors that they were kept awake by rews at the Hills , house till midnight, and on Sunday there was a disturbance about church time, when one of the parties was throwing crockery through the windows. The Resident Magistrate .intimated that if Hill did not cause hie house to be better conducted he must be proceeded against in another way. The female prisoner was fined J63, with the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment. Application.—Mr Nalder stated tiiat in a case of Smethurst v Craig, in which defendant had found a surety to keep the peace, Wyatt, who became defendant's surety, had filed a declaration of inselIvency, and asked if the Bench would take RMpon. The Resident Magistrate said it I would not be necessary, Wyatt was still I liable. I Civil Cases.—Judgments were given If or plaintiffs in cases- G. H. Blackwell v |J. Bird, JE2O 16s 3d; J. Ayres vT. Conden, Hl4s 6d; same vJ. Mark, 10s; B. M. andC. ■Wright v J. Green, £1 18s Bd.
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Press, Volume XL, Issue 5859, 24 June 1884, Page 3
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