MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3077, 30 December 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day, (Before E. ff. Ward, and E. H. Leary, Esqs., J.IVs) DRUNKENNESS. John H. Carding was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and, owing to previous c'onvichoriu for similar offences, he was fined LS I ,’"with the alternative of 14- days’ hard laboy. ’ 'William F- Brown pleaded guilty to a sipiilar offShce, j*nd y/us fined ss, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonihhn.t. , VAGRANCY. John Mullane was charged with having no visible or lawful means of support. The pohee stated that tbe prisoner had been foundpvandering about thewharf and streets, at a late hour of the night, with a swag, and coidd not give a reasonable account of himself ; afso, .that he had been in the lunatic asylum at Hokitika- now showed signs of lunacy, Remanded.' for xoe.die.ul examination. PETTY LARCENY. Isabella Hogg, a little girl ten years of ago, was charged, on the information of Samuel M‘Carthy, with having on the 24th inut. feloniously stolen and carried away from hie premises in -Stuart street certain plants of the value of ss. Complainant said: On the evening tj the day ill question he discovered that the produced had been taken from his garden without autho- _ rity. Some time after he went to the yard - of defendant’s mother and found the plants. He then complained to Mrs Hogg, but could get no redress, and as this was not the first time ho bad cause for complaint against the accused, he lodged an information against her. Caroline McCarthy said that on Christmas eve she met a liitls girl named Haunigau with some flowefk in ,hoi baud. -She asked her where she got thc,h), au\i shy sajd from .Isabella Hogg, The flowers Were yiuvilar to those growing in hw father’s garden;— Hannigan stated that the accused asked her on Tuesday evening last to go with her to Dr Borrows’ garden. She went, ami the accused pulled some flowers, and then told her to pull some. Afterwards they went to M'Carhy’s garden and took away flowers with them.—The accused denied the charge, and the Bench being of opinion that it had not been proved, dismissed the information.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Robert M'lutosh appeared, on summons, charged with using obscene language toVarde J. L. Cook, a schoolmaster, in a public ulaco. Mr Stout appeared for defendant. Complainant said that this was the third time that defendant had used language towards him similar to that in information. On this occasion defendant 4 ad followed along the street to the (I overnment Buildings, and insulted him without provocation, He was sorry that defendant had not struck him, because then he would have bad grounds for an action against him. Lhe Bench thought that ill feeling existed between the parties, and ao the information was supported only by the evidence of complainant, it w’ould be dismissed. George Rodgers was charged with using obscene language towards Robert Bain, on the 24th inst. Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his regret. Mr Bain then said he did not wish to press the charge. Defendant was cautioned and discharged, BUEACii Ol CJTV BYE-LAWS. Henry M‘Donald was charged, cn the information of Mr- Nimon, Inspector of Nuisances, with having constructed a dam across the Leith stream without the authority of |,kc City Cmweil. Mr Stout appeared for

defendant, and stated that the dam in question had been in existence for five or six years ; that the dam had been us d by another party before defendant took possession of the adjoining property, and that defendant had only repaired the dam. He also contended that the onus of proof rested with the comp'ainant, and that since he had not proved that the dam had been constructed by defendant, and that defendant had not authority to erect the dam, the information muatbo dismissed. The information was dismissed according y. •--'William Heads, for allowing the Company’s wafer to waste on the 2dth inst., wa-i fined 2s 6d, without costs.--John Erant, for allowing cattle to wander in Albany street, was fined 2s 6d, with costs. -K. K. M’Liskoy pleaded guilty to having allowed unclean water to How from his premises in Melville street on to the public street, bat stated that the nuisance had b. eu remedied live days before the summons was served. Case dismissed. —Pat. bee, for driving a cab, on the 26th inst., without a license, was fined 2s6dand costs.

ASSAULT. James Hankins v. Uickley.—This was a charge of assault and battery. There was no appeannee of either party, and the case was dismissed.