RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 291, 9 December 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before J. Sharp, Esq., R,M.) Wednesday, Decembers. William Taylor was charged with assaulting Mungo Syme at the Port on the evening of the 6th instant. The defendant admitted the assault, and was fined £1 and costs. Henry Kcmtnis M'Donald was charged with stealing a pair of Bedford cnrd trousers and two shirts, of the. value of 30s, the property of John M'Coll, at Richmond. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner went to the Plough Inn at Richmond on Sunday evening and asked for a bed, which was assigned to him in . the same room with a. man named M'Coll. The prisoner remained in his room until the' following evening, and through his appearing in a differeut shirt to that which he had worn on his arrival, the suspicions of the landlord, Mr Balck, were aroused, and on going to the room he found'some of M'Coll's things were gone. The prisoner was not to be met with that night, but on Tuesday he- wa's^arrested at Stoke by, Constable Levy, wearing the stolen pro-

perty under his own clothes. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. The following debt case3 were also heard : — - ' G. Beck and W. Jones v. D.-Chisholra. Action to recover £3 10s. for emptying a closet oa the premises of the defendant, who had paid £l -into Court, but after the production of several witnesses, including Mr Cotton, who laid claim to a professional career in this particular line of eleven years' standing iu Nelson, and other leadiug. local authorities on the mysteries -of Cloacina, -judgment was given for the plaintiffs, for £-2 15s. with 9s. costs. J. S. Anstice v. J. Sharp. This was au actiou to recover £22 los. the amount of a quarter's rent of premises iu Hardystreet, occupied by the defendaut, who admitted the debt and asked for time. Judgment for the plaintiff, for* £22 155., and 255. costs, payable half in one month, and the remainder in two months j in default of payment or leaving the province, execution to issue for the whole amount. .The followiug cases were adjourned : — Nation and Luckie v. G. Thorburn, and B. Jacobsou v. E. C. Campbell, until 1 the 14th instant, aud C. Elliott v. H. E. Campbell, and J. A. Laugford v. D. Wilson, until the 23rd instant.