RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2014, 19 October 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

(Before James Fulton, Esq., E.M.) This Day. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. The following sentences were passed upon the persons named, for being drunk and disorderly J. Walker, 5s ; George Gray, 20s, or 48 hours’ imprisonment; Mary Ehodiug, 20s, or 48 hours ; Annie Mansfield, L 5, or 14 days ; Catherine Grey, L 5, or 14 days; Emma Lane, L 5, or 14 days; Patrick McNulty, 40s, or 7 days. PETTY OFFENCES. The following fines were inflicted for the offences named :—Leonard Whiting, an unregistered dog, dismissed, and a summons ordered to be issued against Mr Scaulan instead ; John Douglass, horse wandering, 2s 6d ; John Hardy, driving without reins, dismissed ; George Robinson, alias Edwards, drawing a handcart on the footpath, 5s ; 11. Brown, horse wandering, 2s fid ; "Watts and Co, laying building materials on the carriage road in Rattray street, without permission from the City Council, 2s fid; J. Briggs, and Thomas Power, plying for hire with a cab without a license, 2s fid ; J. Wilson, two cows wandering, ss; Charles Macauley, horse wandering, dismissed; W. Miller, allowing sheep to wander in the streets, 10s ; John Donoghue, driving an unlicensed dray, dismissed ; J. T. Hastie, plying for hire with three unlicensed drays, 2s fid each. ALLEGED DISORDERLY. Mrs White charged Mrs Mason with disturbing the public peace and using threatening language to her. The prosecutrix conducted her own case, and Mr Wilson appeared for the defendant. The complainant said she was standing at her own door, and Mrs Mason was standing at her’sf when the latter opened upon her a fire of abusive language, which she bore meekly, and which was continued until the offender was driven away by Constable Barry. As this statement did not bear on the charge, and no evidence was adduced, the case was dismissed. THREATENING LANGCAGE. Hughes v Zachariah Paterson. —The complainant charged the defendant with using language that lead him to fear that he was in danger, The defendant admitted the charge, but said lie bad made ampin apology, with which the complainant expressed himself satisfied. This the latter denied, and Paterson was ordered to enter into recognisances, himself in L2O aud two sureties in LlO each, to keep the peace for three months. The Court then adjourned.