RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S' COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5557, 8 December 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S' COURT.

i - ■ . - ' • ' "A j;. rf ■ Saturday,. Peckmbee/0. /.._ viol (Before H. Eyre Kenny, Es^i *JEU&) DRUNKENNESS; Eobert Martin, Thomas' M'Deflmdtt; 1 and Frederick Taylor were each fiued f |NL^. and costs for drunkenness, wltnWe^usiiaJj alternative. , , , ; , . : ; s < ; JZi*?* ' 'AN INSUBORDINATE ,BOATSWATO«.../I •' i George Landell, . boatswain j "'d&v.ihea Halcione, was charged by Capt. Parker with wilfully di3obeyjng the lawful commands of the captain on the sth of December, o . ! Prisoner, who pleaded not guilty, was defended by Mr Lascelles. - — — Captain Parker deposed that on Thur^-n day, when he went' atjoard %he ship, 'the mate informed him that the boatswain had been using: :bad' languftge,oand that fie (the mate) had -knocked him. off duty. When. , .called put ,the boatswa^ s 3£J£]g£Bt.i. the mate in the presence of^witn^^^^ra^ threatened ;, to strike him. if^lJi^^^M^ such language again. The steveaore?3^d a missed floine grog; andthejprjtepnerriwas under, the; influence of ; drink" akitlwutimeA. . it was missed. Witness remarkedthatitT looked very suspicious.^ The [ swore, and < said he wouldfi : do>no > more work, as he had been fealled i( a-thief. He shortly- after came discharge, ,which^ witness reruse f d i t6 I give] > Prisoner-said he would do no more worir,** and on using further bad language witness told him hf ' was t-fM-i^utKed? blackguard, and hit.himittjt^ f^§e at the same time'. Prisoner' again refused, duty in the presence J 6f* the cbnstable^'^ana* .witness gave him in^charge. t 7, i -[ j In answer to Mr.Lappelles, witness said he never called' prisoner a "thief ; he only jremarked that "it" looked suspicious. [He never struck pfis'6tief tiiiftl he refused duty. >.\''x '■',}•■)' 'HA. >' P. , V'OEl' John Tonkin, mate of the Halcione, depdsed ! th'at ! 'on'^hu^day'W^rnb'aKflx^ Isaw the captain and boatswain talking together, quietly, at .first, but shortly after "tfce'/bo'a^v^ Sttvifiiw' f.hiif J fin.TifSTi"' ! 'F > » < rlriir i! 4ia l rf'*l»Bil3ftr ear lull l>JJay . v'aUl/lUU ,x ala.pl. • .iiali t utUMHiv W%<:fti%f f » -WjiW Mi WM>O% Mi jniore yrork until ther,m,atte5 D wag,plearjea. |up.; .The ; captani, told prison^ he,iljjvaj iiot called him a< thief, -, when prisoner^ called captain Parker a -liar, whete'upont the captain struck the .prisoner ninritJje/lace. - They dosed, but witness"separatedf them; ;■ ; - •- '."'"- u ' : - : l[ T I : Constable Harvey depbsectiHatpns6nerf had refused dutfin his prefeeV : diua^-,i I After hearing counsel's 11 rejniiKs; 11 hiF Worship found prisoner guilfi^sand sen- w tenced him to three 1 weeks' 'imprisonment'iwith hard , labor, -• th'6 ; be deducted' frbnr'Wwaws.^ 1 .-''^ I ■.)•> ; . ■ '"/ '-7 ' •" ".'■' ' -i "O'f'' iiOrari O'iHT ; .; . ... OIJSOEN?,,.IAKGI7AJJE.^; ji j,, n: .., ;rr ,;j Thoma.s Trpyis was chargej. on rem^nl^; with drunkenness, and fined, 6s andipost^ in default, 48 hours' imprisjonmentj i^hej same prisoner was ialso( r .charged ! sLwitb^ jusing obscene language, but the case.waa r iadjo.urned to enable -prisoner, 4oj .bring iwitnesses forward; •'; . ; '-'■;<. ti-i w^i'i — I =5 .^/vcs)