RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 125, 31 May 1881, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Dat. Before Messrs. E. Shaw, BkM., and W. Hutchison and W. Hislop, J.P.'s.) THB DIBFUTB ON THK ALABTOB. James Wells, the steward on the barque Alastor, appeared, on remand, charged with assaulting Moses Bain, the cook of the same vessel, on Friday last. Captain Glazebrook, the master of the vessel, was in attendance, and stated that the complainant was the source of much trouble on board. Witness knew nothing about the alleged assault, not having seen the occurrence. The Bench considered the assault proved by previous testimony, and ordered the defendant to enter .into a bond of £60 to keep the peace for six "months; th« defendant also to pay the costs of the present prosecution. TB» XAST CHANCE. Petejf Newton, a prWiouer offender, was •ohartfed with-fiavingmo visible lawful mjsans of support. The Bench informed the defendant that he could obtain employment at Btonebreaking on applying to the Believing Officer of the Benevolent Institution. They pointed ont that this would probably be the last chance of reform the prisoner would be ' offeaed, and advised him to embrace it and try to lead a new life. StonebreaMng was neither very pleasant nor very remunerative work, but if itie prisoner were sincere\in his desire to turn over a new leaf, he woujn not allow the present opportunity to /beMoet. The prisoner thanked the Bonoh fontheir exertions on his behalf, and remarked that he would be very foolish if he failed tq avail himself of their kindness. He was th&i discharged. STEALING WHILE DRUNK. Joseph Yize, a respeotable-looking young man, reoently arrived from England, was chargeS-with stealing a pair of boots, value 355, the property of John Jackson, bootmaker, of Willis-street. ,, /Ehe prisoner said r. he took the boots while he was intoxicated, and xiKd not romeihber having committed the theft: JThe poiiee authorities reported that Bince the prisoner's arrival in this colony till the present oocasion he had conducted himself well. The Bench had a . doubt as to the prisoner's felonious intenti on, and, advising him to " keep away from -' the drink "in future, gave him the benefit f *. of the doubt, for which the prisoner exJ y pressed his gratitude. " ' (Before Mr. Shaw, 8.M.) ; SHOOTING CALIFORNIAN QUAIL. James Holmes, a young man, pleaded guilty to having killed a Cahfornian quail at Kaiwarra on the 21st instant, without naving taken out a license under the Protection to Animals Act, 1880, bnt pleaded in extenuation that he Bhot the bird in the dusk of the evening, and mistook it for a Maori hen. The Magistrate did not look upon the offence as a heinous one, and fined the defendant Is and costs. SILLING WITHOUT A LICENSE. Henry Charles Lansdon, for whom Mr. Gully appeared, was charged with selling a gill of brandy to George Laurie in premises situated at the corner of Molesworth and Pi pi tea streets, he not being licensed to do bo. He was fined 20b and costs. THB BY-LAWS. Biohard Edwards and George Collision, for allowing their horses to wander, were each fined 3s, and 2s costs ; J< Hudson, for driving without a license, had to pay a similar fine; and William Luokins, for allowing his chimney in Molesworth-street J» take Jire, was fined 10s and 7s costs. This concluded the business. Our readers will doubtless remember Mr. Thomas Gardiner, the entorprising American journalist who purchased the moribund Evening Argus, and converted it into the since-defunct Evening Chronicle : who admitted into partnership certain Wellington journalists and printers and then suddenly departed on his return to America, leaving his partners sorrowing for his loss, and still more at having to pay numerous little bills whioh he forget to settle before he left. Mr. Gardiner, according to our San Francisco mail news, is now about to start a new journal in Arizona, at a place bearing the lugubrious and sepulchral name of " Tombstone." The now paper is to be called " The Union." Mr. Gardiner should take into partnership another old Wellington resident now in America, Mr. George North, and then the " Union " would be a worthy one indeed. One of the witnesses examined at the investigation into the circumstances attending the seizure of the steamer India, alias Ferret, in Hobeon's Bay, is reported to have Btated that it was in contemplation^ should oircumstanoes prove favorable, to ship a oouple of guns at Sandridge, with the view of waylaying and plundering one of the mail steamers carrying specie from Australia to England. What He Thought of It.— A Boston man has just been showing all the sights of that charming oity to a New Yorker, "And npw," says he, " tell me honestly, is not this oity thoroughly unique?" Now Yorker^-. " Yes, indeed ; unus, one, equus, horse."