RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2402, 20 January 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, 19tu January. (BoforoT. W. Parker, Esq., lt.M.) Patrick Nihil was fined 10s for negleoting to keep his private yard clean. fiTONK THROWING. John M'Loughlin, a rncro child, was charged, with throwing atones and breaking windows, Mr O'Meaghor appeared for tho dofendant, and Mr Hislop for tho plaintiff. After tho ovidonoo of several witnesses had been hoard, tho case, and a cross charge wore remanded till Thursday. LAUOBNY. John Hawker and Charles Lefovre were brought np on remand for stealing a number of postage stamps on tho 14th inst. from Charles Beckingsale, storekeeper, of Herbert. The evidence of Mr Beckingsale showed that tho prisonois were in his store on the 14th inst., bogging for food, and that on the counter there was a cash box containing about L 2 worth of stamps. In tho afternoon ho lookod at the box, and found only about 2s 0J worth of stamps in it. Robert Watson, a publican of Herbert, said that tho prisoners were in hia bar on tho 14th, at about 11 o'clock. Lofovro ordored two glasses of beer, and said that tho money he paid was tho last he hnd. Thoy returned in tho afternoon and sat talking in the bar. One asked tho other, "Are they any good?" and tho othor answered, " You can turn them into monoy." They drank throe glasses of beer oach, and paid for them. After they had gone ho found somo torn postage stamps on the floor, whioh he handed to Constable Green. Win, Pollock, butcher, Horbort, gave evidence of buying nineteen 2d stamps of thorn on tho evening of 14th inst. John Nowlimds, postmastor of Mahono, stated that en tho 10th inst. the prisoners offered to sell him LI worth of stamps, and that ho bought Gs worth of them. They told him they wore runaway sailors. They wore hanging about there all day, and having heard of tho robbery he accused them of it and thoy denied it, — Brady, a storekeeper in the narno district, gave ovidenoe of the prisoners wanting to sell some postage stamps to him, and his purohase of 3s worth, Constable Green stated that he arrested both prisoner* on the lQth, at tho Commercial Hotel, Oamaru, And that thoy were both drunk, and Lofevro said that if the old vagabond, moaning Hawkor, had not lod hin» into it ho would not have been in it. Tho Magistrate remanded thorn till thii morning.