RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1916, 26 June 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before A. Chetham-Strode, Esq., RM.) DRUNKENNESS, George Watt was fined 10s for this offence. Ann Sherry and Duncan M'Kenzie, two old offenders, were each fined L 5, or in default 14 days’ imprisonment, THEpr. Thomas Townsend pleaded Guilty to a charge of stealing a tin of kerosene, valued at 14s from oft’ tke new jetty this morning. The Commissioner of Polics said that this was one of a number of small thefts that had occurred during the recent dark mornings. The prisoner appeared to have gone very systematically to work. This morning he went down to the jetty with a bag, and endeavored to divert the attention of the constable who was watching him by filling it with shavings. The constable went to him and noticed that the hag contained a kerosene tin. In answer to the constable’s enquiries he said that the tin contained water ; but on examination it was found to be an unopened tin of kerosene, and on enquiries being instituted it transpired that the tin had been abstracted from a case lying on the wharf. The prisoner was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with bal’d labor. i Civil Case. J. T. Mackerras v. Georgina Hardly.—A claim for L 29 7s 4d. This was an emergency summons, and there being no appearance of tue defendant, judgment by default was given for the amount claimed together with costs.