RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3576, 27 December 1882, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. (Before Captain Preece, R.M.) THREATENING LANGUAGE. George Fenwick was charged on the information of Conetable Siddels with having made use of threatening behaviour at the Spit on the 16th instant. The accused pleaded guilty, and was fined £2 and costs, -or in default to be imprisoned for fourteen days with hard labor. The fine was paid. BREACHES OF BOROUGH BTE-LAWS. Daniel Cotton pleaded not guilty to a charge of having left a horse and cab unattended outside the Council Chamber, Shakespeare road, on the 14th instant.*— Evidence for the prosecution was given by Constables Dalton and Forster.—Accused said he bad tbe horse securely fastened up by a rein to the fence. He took it tbat the Borough Bj-e-laws were intended to protect the public, and not to be used in cases like the present. Captain Bower, who he had expected to be present, could prove that the horse was securely fastened.—Fined 10s and costs. Harry Cantle, charged with having depastured a horse on an unenclosed section within the Borough of Napier on the 26th instant, pleaded ignorance of the law, stating that he did not know he had been doing wrong in grazing his horse where it was found. —Fined Is, with costs 7s, and expenses of witness ss. John Franklin, similarly charged, was fined le, and costs lis. Edward Fraser, on a similar charge, pleaded guilty and was fined ls, with costs 7s, and expenses of witness ss. William Harper, junr., for offending io a like manner, was also fined Is and costs, &c, as above. • A similar charge against William Harper, senr., was dismissed, the information having been wrongly laid. John Owens was charged with having on the 14th instant left his express unattended in Tenuyson-street without the wheels being chained.—There was no appearance of the defendant. —Fined 10s and costs 7s, or in default to be imprisoned for 48 hours with hard labor. BRSACH OF SHIPPING ACT. Frederick Charles Nelson, on remand charged with having absented himself from the barque Coromondel at Auckland without leave, pleaded not guilty. Prisoner said he was willing to go back to tho chip, now in port here, but would not pay the expenses of bringing bim do-vn. The information not being in Court the prisoner was discharged. This concluded the business.