RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 63, 16 March 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before J. Poynter, Esq., R.M.] This Day. stowaways. Samuel Trow and Richard Williams were charged by the Captain of the s.s. Egmout, with travelling from Sydney to Nelson, without paying the fare, £8 each. The defendants did cot deny the charge. The Magistrate ordered them to pay the fare, and fined them £2 each, in default of payment, to be imprisoned for two months in Nelson gaol. CHAKGE OF ASSAULT. Thomas Field informed against Joseph Gilson, for using abusive and threatening language towards him, on the Bth instant, and desiring that the defendant be made to enter into sureties to keep the peace. The defendant said he was known in Nelson as a very quiet inoffensive man, so quiet indeed that he was liable to be imposed upon. He was authorised to cart away some bricks from plaintiff's land by Mr. Marris, when the plaintiff offered himgreat provocation, or he should not have" acted on the defensive as he did. If Mr. Marris were here he would testify to this fact. The Magistrate : Then we will have Mr. Marris here to prove the facts. Mr. Field denied that he had offered any provocation or uttered a single abusive word. Defendant : Oh, lam sure you have no fear of me. Mr. Field : Tour Worship, he used the most offensive language, calliugme everything but a gentleman. He made a second attack when he came back for the second load of bricks. The Magistrate : Let us hear the evidence. Complainant stated as follows : — We were getting bricks from my ground on the Bth instant, on the Waimea-road. After I had got one load away, defendant came up and commenced blackguarding me. He was employed by Mr. Marris. I did not interfere with his carting away the bricks. I told him to stop till I had got mine away. Pie then swore at me and offered to strike me. I called him mad. Mr. Marris was trying to get his bricks as I was mine. Defendant put his clenched fist against my face and swore he would knock me down aud stamp on me, using all the abusive language he could possibly think of. I only laughed at him and told him he was gone out of his mind. To defendant : I did not put the rails up and say you should not enter the place. I had no wood in my hand. You tried to back over me. L. Manning: I -was present when defendant came to cart bricks. Mr. Field did not interfere with defendant the least in the world. I heard him use most abusive and indecent language, and threatened to knock Mr. Field down and jump on him several times. The latter did not swear or offer to resist in the least, or threaten to touch defendant with any weapon. The rails were not touched. Mr. Field did not say he would put the . rails up and get the bricks out. He did not object the least in the world. Geo. Harris : I was present when defendant got a load away. I heard him. use a great deal of i abusive language to complainant. I did not hear defendant say he would stamp upon complainant.. He was irritated about the bricks, I presume. I did not hear defendant threaten to knock complainant down and stamp upon Mm.

Mr. Field explained that this was the second attack, witness not haviug been present at the first. At this stage of the case the Magistrate said he would like to hear what Mr. Marris had to say in the matter, he would therefore adjourn the Court till.he arrived. Mr. Marris was accordingly sent for. Henry Julian and William Marris corroborated Field and Manuiug's evidence; and defendant was ordered to enter into recognisance, himself iv £20, with two sureties in £10 each, to keep the peace for six months, aud to pay the costs of the case, which amounted to £3 12s.