RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 7660, 10 July 1888, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

(Before Messrs F. Mallard, P. ft. I’ryde, and Dr Ilislop, J.P.s.) R. C. Reid v. M. Houlahan.—Claim, LG, on a dishonored cheque.—Judgment for plaintiff' by default. (>. Dowser. Rapatini (Cnorgo. Robertson). —('Jairn, LI I Ms (|d, for goods supplied, Mr D. D. Macdonald appeared for plaintiff, for whom judgment was given by default. CITY POLICE COURT. (Before Messrs James Ashcroft and J. S. Sprent, J.P.s.) DriiNkenxkss. Qeonjf. Fdlon Bmne.li was fined "is, or twenty-four hours’. Ifnejh Goodie/, charged with being drunk whilst in charge of a horse, and who, Inspector Weldon said, had entered the Woodhaugh Hotel with his horse, mistaking it for a stable, and refused *o leave when asked to do so, was fined 20s, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, Sly Gr.oo-fU’.LLiNG.— Joseph Lemmer was changed with having, on the 26th June, at Flat Stream, sold whisky without being licensed. Mr Solomon defended.—The case was remanded until Thursday, bail being allowed in accused’s surety of LSO and two sureties of L 25 each.

Theft. Charles Menlove, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing from the shop of Wing Lee, Arcade. The accused h?,d been remanded last week to allow the Probation Officer to make inquiries concerning him,— Mr Phillips now reported that the accused had been ten years in the colony. The cause of his present trouble was drink. Ho was respectably connected, and if let out on probation friends would find employment for him. His friends had only cast him off when he became addicted to drink. He (the Probation Officer) would recommend that the accused be let out on probation.— The Bench decided to place the accused on probation for three mouths. —Thomas Hardy alias Smith, on remand, was charged with stealing on the 7th two shells, valued at 4s, the property of someone unknown. The case had been remanded to give the police an opportunity of finding the owner, but they had been unable to do so. Constable Ruttfedge now said that when the accused was arrested for drunkenness he haff the shells in his possession, which he said he had got at the 6eean Beach ; then later on he said they were found at Port Chalmers. Whilst at the watch-house accused said he got them in Auckland, —Sergeant-majorßevin testified that the accused had said in Court last week that a man in the street had given him the shells. The accused had appeared on several occasions before Courts in other parts of the colony. He had been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at Napier.—Accused now repeated that the sheila had been given to him by a man in the street, but he (the accused) was drunk at the time. He would not now be able to find the person who gave him the shells.—The Bench considered the circumstances very suspicious, but they would give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. He would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.