RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 83, 10 April 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before John Sharp, Esq., R.M., This Dat. Bog Tickets. Hyain Davis, Judah Myers, William Gibson, J. Braddock, W. Lightfoot, David Grant, A. Waxman, Mary Scott, WilJiam Moirs, Thomas Newton, John Deey, Frederick Stork, Thomas Freeman, and Henry Paap, were charged with having in their possession dogs without tickets. In all these cases the offence was admitted, and it was shown that tickets had been taken out since the laying of the information. Defendants were fined Is. each and costs. Henry Black was charged with the same offence. Defendant denied that the dog in question was his property, but being unable to prove his statement, was fined 10s. and costs. N. T. Lockhart, for having a dog without a ticket on his premises was fined 10s. and costs. Henry Warren, charged with the same, was fined ss. and custs. Robert Ware, charged with same offence, did not appear, and was fined 10s. and costs. J. S. Gunter, on the same charge, which was admitted by defendant, was fined ss. and costs. Cattle Trespass. Alfred Jones, for allowing two cows to be at large on the Waimea Road, was fined ss. each and costs. Using Insulting Language. John Mackay was charged with using provoking and insulting language to F. J. Hill. Defendant admitted having used the language complained of, but not with the intent to provoke complainant. F. J. Hill, sworn: stated, that the defendant came to him when he was engaged in his duty as Customs House Officer at Messrs. Morrison and Sclander's store on the Haven Road, and called him a thief, and accused him of stealing bottles of grog from the store, and then challenged him to fight. Defendant was bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself in £15, and two sureties of .£lO each. M. M. Webster v. Simeon. Claim for .£l4 10s., for groceries supplied. Defendant admitted the debt, but pleaded coverture. Mary Ellen Simeon, sworn : Ido not deny that ! the goods were supplied and do not dispute the I prices charged, but plead that I am a married woman, and was so at the time tiie debt was con- | tracted. lam the wife of John Simeon, who is still living, and is now in Queensland. This plea is not put in for the purpose of repudiating the debt, which I believe will be paid. My husband, from whom I heard last in January, is in receipt of a salary of £300 a year and allowances, and j is in the habit of forwarding remittances to me. Plaintiff was non-suited.