RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3868, 10 December 1883, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. (Beforo Captain Preece, R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Joseph Langley and _ Thomas Mansell were each fined 5s for this offence. Thomas Ryan, who had been in gaol since Saturday charged with a similar of ■ fence, was dismissed with a caution, having explained to His Worship that it was his first offence in twenty years, and that ho had just returned from a six months' resideuco in the bush. Hemi Nuka, who failed to appear, had his bail of £1 forfeited. LUNATIC. Christopher Ross, on the information of Constable Lawless, of Hastings, was charged with being incompetent to take care of himself. Thomas Morgan deposed that the accused had threatened to brain him. Ross was suffering from delirium tremens, the effect of drink. Tho doctor had attended him on Saturday lasfc, but witness could not say what for. Accused was remanded for a week for medical examination. SLAUGHTERING OFFENCE. John Hollis was charged with having, on the 30th November, caused to be slaughtered on his premises some lambs, his premises not being a slaughter-house under the Act. The defendant pleaded guilty, but said he had been in the habit of doing so for the last eight and a-half years, without being told that he was doing wrong. Mr Cotterill said the proceedings were instituted by tho Hawke's Bay County Council, and he would ask His AVorship to inflict a substantial fine, so that warning might be given to others of the illegality of such practices. Defendant was fined £3, costs 13s, solicitor's fee £1 Is, and 10s for the expenses of a witness, or in default 14 days imprisonment, i The fine was paid.