RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 782, 7 November 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before the Hon. A. C. Strode; 8..M.)

DRUNKENNESS. John Oassy and William Hall were each charged with this offence, and were fined 20s and costs with the usual alternative. MINOR OFFENCES. John Russell, charged with allowing a goat to stray, was fined 5s and costs. William Hartley, charged with furious riding in George Btreet, was fined 30s and cost 3. Jessie Gunn, charged ■with allowing a cow to wander, was fined 7s 6d and costs. John Boyd, charged with carrying more passengers in his licensed cab than allowed by law, was fined 20s and costs. ASSAULT. I Henry Spiers was charged upon the informaI tion of Ellen Murdoch with having, on the Ist instant, assaulted and beaten her. The complainant's version of the affair was, that having had occasion to see what her children were doing, she went out and found the defendant ill-treating tnem ; he at the same time using foul language to her; and that she then threatened if he did not desist, to throw a bucket of water over him; and upon being defied carried her threat into execution. The defendant then struck her with his fist, and threw an iron bucket at her. In defence, it was said that the complainant had brought the assault on by her own acts ; and a witness was called who proved that the complainant threw the water over the defendant without any provocation. Case dismissed. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Ann Sherry and Jane Smith were each charged with this offence, and fined respectively 30s and 40s, together -with costs. Mary Scott and eight others were charged with being in unlawful occupation of Crown Lands. The -whole of the parties pleaded poverty. His Worship said the only way of clearing the land was to put into effect the 43rd clause of the Land Regulations Act, which gave the Commissioner power, if after 10 days notice the aggressors did not quit the land, to compel them to do so by force.