MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5574, 3 January 1879, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH.

Thursday, Jan. 2. ■(Befqro'(^L. :^ellttb,Eaq;^);? > (' *. Drunkenness.—Fqur first offenders Were! fined 5s each with cost qf cab, And one who, was in charge of a horso wa* fined lO*; another, who lisd boon ro|eased on bail, nppeered in Court drunk, and' was ordered to be looked up. i ■ Odboenb language.—Margaret Shannon was charged with using obscene language within Hearing of a public place. Fined 2()5.; . . Breach o» the-Peace.— Thos. Moyers,: charged with Cghtiug ia Gloucostor street in view of a constable, was fined 10s. Indecency.—EdwardClarlrton was charged witli committing an act of indecency within view of a public place, having boon arrested at mid-day on Deo. 30 by Oailiol ond M|#u streets. Fined £6. ' Failing to Provide. —Tho case against Mary Belinda Sweeney, who was' charged with failing to provide her child with adequate means of support, was called on, tho inatter having boot! hold Over from Deo. 80 to admit of a settlement. Mrs Gaskins, the woman with whom tho child was left, stated that she had not yet received the balance duo, but the amount having been paid into Co iirt, accused'was discharged. JEmbezzlemiint.— FraneM Hopkins Valpy, on remand, was with ember sling certain moneys, the property of the Now! Zealand Railway Employer Benefit Society.; Tho amounts now specified on eight charges were ns follows 1 £3 los , £5 4s j‘ £4; m fcSO&J. m 10*!j£21 16s i making a total '‘df>.£loß -Ba. Mr Cowlwhaw appeared for tho protoiiflJdn.ihid proposed to offer evidence under the Larceny Act An|cu.dmont Act, 1870.' /tealiug witli co-pb^e^P or bcngflcial own oral up. He. ptoposoaTlo show that prisoner was a member of tho Society, and that lie from time to time received moneys on behalf of the Society, and

that ho misappropriated certain sumsMr Izard appeared' to defend tho prisoner. Tho following eyidenoe was taken t Thos Brown Bain, q member of tho Society, said—l was present at a meeting hold on June 7,1878, prisoner being there also, and’.l now produce the minute*, which are ip tile handwriting of prisoner, who wn» a member of tbe Society. There are about a thousand members [names of some of tho members given]. The Otago rules referred to in tho minutes are now produced; they were passed with certain alterations. [Copy of printed rules a* altered by prisoner put ih.j The officers of the Society were appointed at the meeting—Mr Vnlpy us Secretary, and Mr Fetor Ellis as Treasurer. Prisoner noted a* Secretary, to my knowledge. In consequence of something that occurred, I was appointed Secretary pro. tern., and wrote a letter to Mr Valpy, receiving ’a reply, thereto. ,fLetter of witness/bearing endorsement of prisoner, banded io. JI subsequently received another letter addressed to the Chairman of thoOommittee, Mr Heaton [letter banded |n]. Witness was nob cross-examined. Thomas Bradley, stationmaster at Lyttelton, and a mernbir of the Society, said—■!,know tho ( j)riireoi;, tp whom, on Got. 10,1 paid, as representative , of. the Lyttelton members, a sum o! money, which he deceived as Secrctary for And on behalf of the Society. I paid hlra £28 , 6*, otld iiow produce his receipt/: Subsequently,on Nov. 12,1 sent, per guard Heaton, £2O «», the receipt therefor,, which is in .prisoner’s handwriting, being produced. Peter Ellis said—r|; am a of the *Society, and am : the Treasurer. , X received no sums of £2B 6s and j £2O 8s in October from, thd prisoner, nor have I received the money since that date. 1 last received money from brisoner on account of tho Societo bn Sep. 19v No one but mo is authorised to receive money for the Society, I received a letter from prisoner relative to tho non-payment of money/, whom 1 saw on tho subjeoti I asked him if he had seen a copy of the resolution that I should coll on him and ask him for the money, and he said “ Yes.”, The resolution poModpa meeting held in November. Prisoner said he had not bee* able to got the money together, and would call on me nexb day, or something to that effect. Atterwords I received this letter from; him—lt lain Ilia handwriting 4 and|l then saty him , again to get the money from him.,, I did tioi got it. About the same time I received a further letter from prisoner. [Handed inj SiiiCe Sopti IST have received no money from him." This closed the evidence on the tyro charges, and in the following ones the statements of the witnesses were of a like nature. Defence was reserved. Prisoner was committed for trial on all the charges, bail being fixed in the sum of, ,£4OO for the prisoner,' with two sureties in the sum of £2OO each.

LYTTELTON. Thursday, Jan. 2, (Before W. Donald, H. R. Webb, T, H. Potts, Dr Reuse, and H. AUwright, Bsqrs.) / Drunkenness.—o. Watson and Owen Kelly were released on promise of better behaviour. LABOBNY.—Thomas Forsyth and A. Bait, on remand from yesterday for stealing liquors from the saloon of the Jessie Niool, were sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. Lunacy from Drink.—George Nearcs.on remand from Resident Magistrate’s Court at Ashburton for lunacy from drink, was-re-manded to Jan. 2, and again this morning to lan. 6. MALVERN. Wednesday, Jan, 1. (Before H» J, Mathw, Esq.) Drunkenness. A first offender was separately charged'ivith being drunk and disorderly and resisting the police. His Worship animadverted on the conduct of the accused'in creating;‘a disturbance at the district annual gathering, and fined him £1 for the first, and ordered* Him to'be locked up 24 hours for the second offence.