SHORTLAND. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday. [Before Major Keddell and Lowther Broad, Esqs., R. M.s.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3510, 15 October 1868, Page 4

SHORTLAND. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday. [Before Major Keddell and Lowther Broad, Esqs., R. M.s.]

DRUNKENNESS. William Patterson auJ James Crowther 5 charged, with the above offeaoe, were dealt with in .the übual manner, , BREACH OF LICENSIVG ACT. ( Austin O'Grady pleaded guilty to a breach of the above Act, in hariug sold liquor on his piemiaes without having a license for so doing. The house being at a remote distance, the Court fined the defendant in a mitigated penalty of £5. | LABCENY. i i Miphael Burpi, appeared, charged with stealing a hat, the property of Kd.ward Ange*. | The Cpmt found kbep-isoner guilty, and sentenced him to 14 days' hard labour. , WIFB AND CHILD DEsBRTIOS.— -JIARTINSON Y. MAB-; TIN SOil. , , This case, after being partially heard, was adi journed from a previous bitting of the Court. j The Court diimJßßed 'the case. THREATBNINO I,ANGaAOE. , > John .Brown -appeared, charged with /the above offence. : Mr. .Beveridge for the plaintiff; and Mr. Maor donald fur defendant. Mr. Macdouald *aid he could not call any evidence in the present case. He would ask the Court to take the case of Brown v. OBrien, which he thought would settle the remainder of them.

ASSA.DLT. i BROWN Y. O'BRIEN. The plaintiff alleged tb*t the defendant had rushed at hitn, thrown him (lowd, an|i otherwise assaulted, him. hy kicking hini. , His Worship, after hearing the evidence in the case^ could come to no other conclu ion than to dismiss it; in the first case the defeudant was ordered to be bound over to keep the peace,, in his own recognizance, for the sumjof £10 fur three months, no order being made for costs. All the other ca*es wera abandoned. (

MITCHELL Y. STANTOff. | Mr. Cash for pUiutiff. , Ciaim to recover £1 ss. for a. £tent supplied to defendant. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs.

WHITELGCK Y. MUIR AND SULLIVAN". This was a case adjourned fur an. award to be brought up siibject to arbitration. The award was £22 153. 3 1.

GRA.NT Y. GIBBONS. Mr. Dodd for plaintiff, ana Mr. Macdonaid for. defendant. ' Claim for £26 15a , for work performed in can.vassiug aud papering au hotel on behalf of defen,- ■. dant. ' < ! The Court did not consider that any contract had been proved aa, between the plaintiff and \Vhite!ock ; the judgment must therefpije pass for the. plaintiff for - the amount cUimeill' [