RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.)

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 159, 5 July 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.)

NO CRIME. Stephen Morton, boatswain of tbe ship Pleione, was charged with using abusive language to Captain Renaut, master of the vessel. It appeared that this morning the defendant used disrespectful language to the third mate, and also to the captain, and refused to leave the poop when ordered to do so. Mr. Crawford said there was no provision in the Merchant Seaman's Act to meet such a charge. Defendant should have teen charged with refusing to obey orders in not leaving tbe peop. He must now be discharged. QUITE WELL AGAIN. John Livingstone, who was charged on remand with drunkenness, was discharged with a caution, as he had fully recovered from the effects of drink. A NEGLECTFUL NORSE. Mary Williams, an old woman, wa? charged with drunkenness. Willam Clarke said his sister was ill with typhoid fever, and she. was placed in charge of the defendant, who received £3 a week for looking after her. He was told that all was not right, and that a man had kept defendant company at his sister's bedside all one night, and lie went down to see about it. He found the woman lying drunk on tbe floor of ono room, apd his sister in an imensiblo state upon tbe sofa in another room. Defendant was discharged with a caution. ALLEGED ASSAULT AT SEA. James Eaton, master of the barque Whittington, was charged with assaulting George Amlenin, a seaman in the same vessel. Mr. Fitz-Gerald appenred for tha complainant, and Mr. Travers, jun., for the defendant. The evidence of the complainant was to the effect that on the 4th M ay, when tbe Whittington was at sea, it began" to rain, and he took some clothes which he had hung on tbe rigging to dry, into the forecastle. Captain Eaton and the third- mate followed him and the captain struck aud kicked; hjnk*, Three witnesses were called to bear out Anderson's statement. The defence was that the plaintiff was unruly and .disobedient, and the captain pushed him from Xtie forecastle. Tbe third mate admitted having struck him, but it was denied that tbe captain had done so. Mr. Crawford considered that the evidence of the complainant and his witnesses was untrustworthy, and therefore dismissed the summons. A CAUTION TO SHALL BOYS. James Harvey and Alfred Harvey, two boys, were charged with damaging tho property of Alexander Wilson. It appeared that Mr. Wilson put up a board announcing that a plot of land was to bo let, and the defendants threw stones at it until they broke it. He undertook this prosecution as a warning to other boys. Defendants were fined Is and costs each. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for the amounts claimed, with costs, was given in the following cases : — T. E Macdonald and Co. v. Q. W. Hewitt, £17 2* "i ; J. Keals v. G. Fitchetr, £3 ; Simeon v. Simpson, £3 15s 8d ; E. Styles v. Huntly, £2. Tbe case of Brogden v. Webb, claim of £61 16s 7d, was adjourned until Thursday.

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