MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7414, 3 December 1884, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

—y CHRISTCHURCH. I Tuesday, Duo. a. i (Before It. liwlbam.l%, HAL, J.OUlvloii Kwj., R.M.. find ft. Westefim, Esq.} I DtumKENiitUM.—Mary Ann White 'Adi milted having Wo drunk in Artnagll street on the previous day, There werJ many previews conviction* against her.anrS she was fined x’lf, or seven days* imprison-* ment. ‘ j

Ai.i.nonn CfttMiMAt, A«#Atf»/r.— Austin] Tyrrell was charged with this offence, 3 Inspector fender *Ud there were others! concerned in tho offence, and ho wished fori an adjournment of the caw, to onahlo thd police to tnako further enquiries. ConitablJ Dillon dialed that about half-past IwelrJ last nigiit he was on duty in Manchrwtd street south, and heard screams comlnJi from tho direction of tho South holt. , ll.| ran m far ns the Terminus Hotel, and still heard the scream# i following tho sound b B found the prisoner and two other mefl assaulting a woman on a vacant section next to Roger's hoardiug-hotine. Mo ool| tared prisoner and hold him, hut tho other men got away. The woman complained that she had been criminally Assaulted by tho three men. Accused did not crossexamine tho constable, and remarked that

ho had nothing to say. Ho was remanded till Friday next. Cheat LonotNos. Ocorge, Piper, a young man, was aontuedof obtaining board and lodging to the amount of 18s, from a boarding-house keeper on the South belt by means of false representations. It appeared teat accused had gone to the boost* on Thursday lost, and #d he was employed by the Railway Department in the Parcels Office, Addington. On the strength of this statement tec landlady allowed him to remain till Monday last. Enquiries made proved that the accused was not known by the Railway Department. He now said that thoro had been a misunderstanding j that he had told the landlady ho won " seeking " employment ut the railway station, not that lie wm employed there. In answer to the Bench, accused uaid he had been lately keeping a billiard saloon in Timuru; bo had no money on him, but could obtain sufficient to pay for his board. The Bench gave tho xjmng man the benefit of the doubt, ana discharged him. Civil C ab*s,— Judgment wm given for plaintiff by default in tho cases of Kutsoy v. Bovan, claim £1 14s sd; Irving v. Martin, claim £l9 8s Cd; Doniord v. AlTlroy, claim £3 6s ( Browning ▼. Tumor, claim £6 12s 3d; City Council v. Johnstone, claim £5 la 8d; same v. Hapatonc, Claim £2lßs 7d j same v. Smith; cltirn £1 18s 9d; Bishop v. Smith, claim £lB 14ty 3d j Browning v. Joannctt, claim £4 8s; Langdown and Co. v. Hughes, claim £3 9s 9d.— In the cate of Marks v. Martin, claim £1 Ss, value of window gloss it was alleged defendant had broken, them was no/proof that ho had done the damage, and vfudgment was given for defendant.-—Mmklc-ham v. Ward, claim £3 16s, for threshing grass seed, Ac. Air M'Conbel for plaintiff. Defendant said that it had boon agreed that plaintiff was to receive £1 a thousand for threshing tho grass seed. Hit Worship had never heard of grass seed threshing being paid for by tho thousand, and gave judgment for the amount claimed, which was at the rate Of Is an hour.—Scott v, Risaeil, claim 9s 2d, for scrap load supplied. Dofehdant disputed the price—2d a lb—-but alter hearing evidence the Bench concluded this was reasonable, and gave judgment for the amount claimed and costs.

RANGIORA. Tuesday, Deo. 2,

(Before A. 11. Cunningham and H. Blackett, Esqs.)

A shoving Beuaviodb.— Jonathan Bell, James Middleton, and T. JJUI, three boys, were chawred with having aasoyod one Joseph Bishop on the evening of Nov. 27 by throwing stones on to the roof of his house. The charge wm admitted by Middleton, but denied by the other, two. After hearing the evidence of Bishop the informations were dismissed on the payment of 11b coats by Middleton. Civil. Cases. —P. Stevens v. Tuki Paratene (Maori), claim £1 10s. Judgment given for plaintiff for amount claimed and costa. Two cases, in which the amounts claimed were beyond tho jurisdiction of tho Court, were adjourned for a week.

TIMARU. Tdesdat, Dec. 2. (Before J. L. Beswick, Esq,, R.M., E. El worthy and H. J. LoCren, Esqs.) Insake thkoucjii Drink. —T. Woods, an habitual drunkard, who was arrested on the previous day at Temuka, being in a condition dangerous to himself, was now charged with being of unsound mind through drink. Dr Drew having certified, and tee police having testified to the man's state, he was remanded for one week lor medical treatment, * ft Disobetino ah Obdeb.— Mary J. Hughan (married woman), of Akatore, near Tokomariro, was charged with still disobeying an order of the Court, made in March, 1882, directing her to pay 4a per week towards the support of her father, Samuel Turner. Mr White, for complainant, stated that the Magistrate before whom the ease was lost heard (Air Robinson) bod dismissed it. because the woman's statement that she had no moans had not been disproved. Since then, however, on Nov. 18, search in tho Registration of Deeds Office, Dunedin, had revealed tee foot that on the afternoon oi tho day, in 1882, when the order was originally made, defendant had made a voluntary transfer of some 67 acres, unencumbered, standing in her own name, to her husband and son. Mr Hamendoy, for defendant, pleaded her poverty as a reason for her not having come to Tinrnm to answer the charge, and his Worship adjourned tho case to|.Doo 28, to admit of her *Tnl ag tee following cases judgment went by default:—B. Webster v. Cornelius Collins, claim 16»; same v. J. Johnson, claim £6 2s 2d» W, Zicalor v. J. Vickers, claim £4 Us 8d j Evans, Grandi, and Dooley v. E. Brown, elaim 6s, balance of an original account of 80s, Alter hearing evidence, his Worship characterised the case os "a miserable one," and gave judgment for plaintiffs for 6a, without costs.