RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3009, 16 February 1881, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq.," R.M. BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT.

John Kelly, of Hastings, waa charged with selling beer on Sunday. Mr Cornford, for the defendant, addressing the bench, admitted the offence, but asked that all the circumstances of the case should be taken into consideration, and his client dealt with as leniently as possible. The child of a neighbour had come into tbe hotel on the Sunday evening for a small quantity of Bupper beer, and the defendant admilmited having served her. The defendant had been a hotel-keeper for some years, and bore a high character for the way in which be bad conducted the houoes he had occupied. This was the first time he had been charged with any infringement of the law, and he trusted His Worship would deal lightly with him.

His Worship said the charge was laid under the Provincial Act,and he was sorry that the minimum penalty allowed was £2. After the explanation given by Mr Cornford, be was disposed to impose tbe very smallest fine just to mark the breach of tbe law. A fine of 5s would have met the case if the law had allowed it. He would fine the defendant the lowest amount allowed by the Act, £2 and

costs.

BREACH OF THE SHEEP ACT,

This was a information laid by the Inspector of Sheep against T. W. White for driving 933 sheep across the Okawa run on December 14th last, the required notice not having been given. The charge was proved, and His Worship inflicted a fine of 3d per head upon the defendant.