RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 2 September 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day. (Before James Fulton, Esq., E.M.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Thomas Jack, and James Gray, were each fined 20s, or 48 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. PETTY OFFENCES. For breaches of the Byelaws the following fines, with costs, were inflicted : Informations by the police : Franz Butterfield, for allowing a chimney to take fire, 20s ; Thomas Polemau, riding on a dray without having hold of the reins, dismissed ; Adam Meton, for being at a distance from his horse and dray, 5s ; W. Hannah, allowing a horse to stray, 2s 6d. Informations by Inspector Nimon : —D. Hutchison, driving across a footpath in London street, 10s ; Robert Hogg, for a nuisance on his premises, 10s; George Young (defended by Mr D Stewart) for allowing uightsoil to lie on his ground unburied,-2s Gel; Guthrie and Asher, obstructing the street Gy laying building materials upon it, withdrawn ; H. M. Williams, being too far from his horse and dray to have control over them, dismissed. Informations by the Town Belt Ranger;— Charles Grimley and Richard Layer were charged with removing soil from the surface of Dundas street, not having permission from the Corporation to do so. The case was somewhat peculiar. The men are in the employ of Mr S. Hutchison, who, some short time since, had written permission from the Corporation to take some clay away f. ora the street for experiment, as it was thought it might be advantageously used in the manufacture of draining pipes. The removal of the clay widened and otherwise improved the street, but on examination Mr Hutchison was not satisfied with the manner in which the work had been left, and instructed the two men charged to make it straight. The Town Belt ranger did not complain that any damage was done, but said that the permission only extended from seven to fourteen days, and ought to have been renewed. Fined 2s 6d and costs. Mr Hiuchisonpaid the fine. —lodward Paulin was charg d with driving two head of cattle in Great Kinvr street, contrary to the second bye-law, which prohibits horned cattle being driven on the public roads later than eight o’clock in the morning or earlier than ten o’clock in the evening. The defendant said he was fetching two cows from Maori Hill, which he drove down 1 Juke street across the bridge over the Water of Leith, and did not go down King street at all. Fined 2s Cd and costs.—John Kelly, goats wandering, dismissed on promise that they should be got rid of. The case of Agnes Hamilton v. Robert Ellis wa<>, on the application of Mr Ward, postponed to Tuesday.