RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1587, 3 July 1861, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, July Ist.

Gross Inorat. ude.— Thomas Palmer, a labouring man, in the of M”. Fagg, of Mount Albert, was charged with robbing Mr. Gideon Burrows, of two £1 notes and one sovereign, on Thursday last. The prisoner was in the habit of taking his meals with the prosecutor, and on the day in question lie requested Mrs. Burrows to lend him a shilling to get some drink; when the coin was handed to him, he perceived there was some more money in the box from which it was taken, and he asked the prosecutor’s wife to get the liquor as he was too unwell to fetch it. When she was absent on that errand, he abstracted the money and decamped. He was also charged with stealing from a fellow-labourer, of the name of John Steel, a pair of trousers, which was on his person when placed at the bar to-day. He pleaded guilty to the charges. He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labor for the first offence, and three months for the second. The Magistrate tald him he was a most ungrateful fellow for robbing the person who had befriended him.

A Special Commission has been issued for the trial of John Winter, for selling a gun to a Maori, and also to try Ann Nicholson, for maliciously burning a child. The proceedings will take place on Monday next, the Bth inst., before His Honor the Chief .Justice, at the Supreme Court, Auckland..