RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1996, 28 September 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before James Fulton, Esq., E.M.) DRUNKARDS. James Anderson and Henry Jackson were each fined 10s for this offence. Owen Kelly was fined 20s; Andrew Chrystal was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment, with hard labor, for being an habitual drunkard. KEEPING A FEROCIOUS DOG. William Henry Cutten Avas charged on the information of George Little, with the above offence. According to the evidence of the informant, on the 24th inst., as he was travelling along the Anderson’s Bay road, he was attacked by Mr Cutten’s dog, Avhich tore his clothes. The defendant Avas fined 20s and costs. BREACH OF THE POLICE ORDINANCE. Michael Cox, landlord of the Dunedin Hotel, was charged with having refused to admit the police Avhea requested so to do. Jdr Harris appeared for the defendant. It appeared that on the morning of the 16th inst., constable Baxter, hearing a noise in the hotel, knocked, and asked to be admitted. He was joined by another constable, who maile a similar request; but it was not complied with in either case. The defendant Avas fined L 5 and costs. MINOR OFFENCES. The following persons Avere fined in the amounts set opposite to their respective iianies -James M‘lnJoe, alloAving five cattle to stray, 5s and costs; James Stenhouse, allowing a horse to wander, 2s fid and costs ; Henry Beaver, alloAving the chimney of his house to take fire, 5s and costs ; James Kimber, driving across the footpath in Albany street, 5s and costs ; James Armstrong, allowing a horse to Avander, 5s and costs. The folloAving persons were dismissed with a caution Williom Clarkson, John Hoddimont, John White, Hyslop and Wright, and William Barnes. INFORMATION BY THE INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES. William Hall, for plying for hire off the cab-stand, Avas fined Is; and James Smith, for a similar offence, Avas fined 5s and costs. A. Nettleford and James Wilson, for neglecting to ke-'p their premises clean, Avere each fined 5s and costs, and a charge of a similar nature preferred against Thomas Sibbald, was dismissed. A case against A. Culleu

was adjourned for a fortnight. T. Duncan, P. Brady, W. Watson, Ellen Roberts, W. Urqnhart, T. Hope, J. Pringle, J. Wain, B. Pole, W. Heads, W. Colgau, R. Edwards, J. Adams, J. Gillespie, and E. M'Liskey, were also charged with neglecting to keep their premises derm. As the defendants promised to have the nuisance complained of abated, the cases were dismissed.—A charge preferred against William Judd, for casting tilth upon Hanover street, was dismissed with a caution.

INFORMATION'S BV THE TOWN BELT RANGER

Walter Simpson, for allowing cattle to stray on the Town Bolt, was fined Is a head and costs ; and James M'Neil Simpson, for a similar offence, was fined 2s Gd a head and c-.-sts. The Court then adjourned.