COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5723, 26 January 1876, Page 3

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS.-

Tuesday. [Before James Baber (Chairman), G S CiRiH-VM, Esq., and Dr. Goi ijsisro', Justices ] Ditu.vKEWVE-,4 —Michael Garret ami John Geoige were fined 5a and costs Elizabeth Speers was fined 10s. and costs, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment with hard labour Wike-thrtatevivcj. — ■ Thomas Goiman was charged with threatening to put his wife "out of the way slowly." Mrg. Gorman, upon being put into the witness box, expressed a wish to withdiawthe chaige. She was allowed to do so. Nav*.l Discipline At r.— George Xicholls, a deserter from her Majesty's service, was remanded for a week in order that he might then be put onboaidthe '.Sappho,' expected in the Manukau in a few clays Carfi fssDrivum* —John Thomas pleaded guilty to driving a. dray on the wrong side of the road, and against Dr. Philson's carriage, in Karangahape Road, on the 17th inBtant. A Nameless Dim y.— The same defendant pleaded guilty to driving a dray in the Karangahape Road without having any name upon it. The Bench inflicted a penalty of 30s and costs for the first offence, and foi the second Is. and costs. TiiRFArpviNO L\nc.laoe ■ — Annie Koobs waa charged with using abusive language towards Emily Gamble on the 21st instant She pleaded not guilty.— Emily Gamble deposed that defendant abused her on the day m question. Witness told her to go to bed and she would speak to her m the morning.— Defendant lefused to ask hei any questions, but would leave her to Almighty God. (She was m a very excited state, and could with difficulty be made to keep sileuce. ) — The evidence of two women confirmed that of complainant — Defendant got into the witness-box and deposed that she knew very little about the alfair, as she was the worse for dnnk at the timo. — She was bound over to keep the peace for one month, herftelf in £5 and two sureties of £5 each.