MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume XLII, Issue 6248, 28 September 1885, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Satubdat, Sxftihbxb 26. [Before E. Beetham, Esq., HJ-L] DBtr_r____n_x-B,—Eliza Wilson, an inveterate drunkard, who at a previous hearing had denied this offence, and had been remanded for further evidence, was again brought up. Two witnesses, independent of the police, now swore that on Tuesday night last she was very drunk when arrested. She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. For a first offence a man was fined 6s, and another, who did not answer to his bail, was fined 10a, each with the usual alternatives in case of default, 111-tbbat_ng a Hobbs, tec— Richard Chamberlain, a young man well-known to tiie police, was charged with having illtreated, by beating, a horse of which he was tiie driver. It appeared that oa Monday afternoon last the prisoner got the lend of a horse and buggy from another man, who had hired it from Bendell's stables. Shortly afterwards the buggy was seen with three men and two women in it Chamberlain was driving it The horse was going ata gallop, and the driver was cruelly whipping it It was taken from Kilmore street round by Latimer square, through Collins' right-of-way, a narrow place, and thence down to the town belt and through the town, colliding on its way with a vehicle in High street Seven wit* nesses were called, who proved that ithe horse had been flogged unmercifully, and that it was coverlid with weals and exhausted when returned to ite owner. There was no doubt that Chamberlain

drove some part of the. named Oonway, who lias since been renf to gaol for three months on another charge, also—drove. They were all more or less drunk. For illtreatment to the horse the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment (the maximum penalty), and for furious driving he was fined Iβ, and ordered to pay 153, expenses of witnesses. Fighting. - James Boreham and John A. Lee were charged with fighting in Colombo street on thesffcernoonof September 23rd. The case was a trifling one, and they were discharged with a caution.