RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 382, 31 March 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before Mr. Mansford, R.M.) DRUNKBNNEBB. Robert Moore Bell, who did not answer to his bail, was fined 10*, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. John Martin, charged with a similar offence, was discharged, in consideration of his having been locked up since Saturday. DELIRIUM: TRBKBVB. Sarah Hill was charged with vagrancy. A letter was received from the governor of the gaol, stating that the prisoner was suffering from delirium tremens, and was unable to appear to the charge. Mr. Maniford accordingly adjourned the case for a week. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AT THB HOSPITAL. William Taylor was charged on remand with disorderly conduct at the hospital. The cook at the hospital said that the defendant complained to him of the quality of the butter served out to him, he stating that it was nothing but a composition of whiting and grease, and he would take it to Dr. Diver to have it analysed. Defendant became very violent, and flourished a knife about in front of witness. Defendant denied being violent, and said that Dr. Keating said he wu to Dave some more butter. The cook, in reply to the Bench, said that the same butter was served out to 72 persons that morning and not oae of them complained of it. Mr. Mansford discharged the defendant on his promising not to repeat such conduct. AN ALLEGED VALUELESS CHEQUE. William Inman was charged with obtaining goods to the value of £4 Bs. from A. J>. Cowan, at Masterton, by means of a valueless cheque. The polios stated that the warrant had not arrived from Masterton, and they applied for a remand, which was accordingly granted till Wednesday. TmiVIAL CASH OF LARCBNT. ._ Mark Toole was charged with stealing a shirt value 75., the property of Richard lttellin. It appeared that the. parties lodgrd together at a boarding-house in Hfll-itreet. Prosecutor lost the shirt on Saturday night and yesterday the prisoner gave it to a man to return to the prosecutor, stating that he took It while he was drunk and ho wa« very sorry for having done so. Mr. Mansford ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for 48 hours. CIVIL CASES. Judgment summonses.— Dimwit v. Sheehan, £8 10; ordered to pay in 7 dayß or 4 weeks' imprisonment. Cook v. Manning, £2 18s 3d ; to pay in 14 days or 7 days imprisonment ; Bank of Australasian v. Bond, £38 lla Cd ; to pay in 14 dayß or 3 months' imprisonment. Judgment for the plaintiff* with costs was given in the following cases :— A. Sample v. C. Hoos, £1 6s Cd; Roberts v. Chalk, £8 0s 8d ; Wellington Highway Board v. M. Meller, 12s; Dr. Kesteven v. 11. Smith. £1 17s 0d; Woods, Crosbie, and Co., v. Sellars, £22 12s 7d; L. Ballinger v. C. Hoos, £15; City Corporation v. W.. H. Beck, 12* Cd ; same v. W. F. Cheeseman, £3 Stevenson and another v. Q. S. Sellars, £4 18s 4d.