RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1056, 24 December 1862, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Christchchch.—Dec. 15. (Before John Hall, Esq., R.M.) Thomas Etonian was fined 2s 6d for lighting rubbish in Armagh street. James Hair, of the A 1 Hotel, Christchurch, was fined 5s for neglecting to have a sufficient light burning over the front door of his house. James Jackson was fined 10s for leaving a dray on the Sumner road. Samuel Scillan and Samuel Fleming were fined respectively 40s and 10s for committing a breach of the peace in Colombo street. The Resident Magistrate remarked to Scillan (who said he was an Irishman) that the number of Irishmen who were brought before him for creating disturbances and for drunkenness was very considerable, and he intimated that if they wished to fight they had better 1 1_ A—_ T 1 J 1 1 J _t

go back to Ireland, as he would always deal severely with eases like the. present. R. Symington admitted having led his horse on the footpath in Sumner road, but pleaded ignorance of the law. The Magistrate fined him 20s, and said that the nuisance was becoming intolerable. Great expense had been incurred in forming footpaths in the city, and this was the way they were destroyed; He would always inflict the highest penalty for this offence. People's good sense should keep them from destroying the footpaths. Arthur Ellis was fined 10s for leaving his dray and horses in High street. Thomas Wilson was fined 10s for tethering his horse in Oxford terrace west. December 16. Win. Crooke and John Thomas Brook, two men who had engaged to fight at the Heathcote Valley on Monday last, were brought up to-day on a warrant, and ordered to find surety for their good behaviour for twelve months, the principals in j£2oo and two sureties each in the sum of j£loo. The Magistrate said that he and his brother magistrates would, to the utmost' of their power, prevent such unseemly exhibitions from taking place, and he informed the men that if they wished to fight they must retire from this province.