MAGISTRATE'S COURT.— Friday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 301, 29 October 1864, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.— Friday.

j (I»efore Thomas J->eckham t Ksq., K.M.) nULW'K KNNKSS. Win. M'oolcork, Wm. Browne, and Bridget Hawkey, charged with tin; above (ilii.ncc were treated in the usual manner. , THItIiATIININd Thomas MHiuiston was brought up under warrant charged by his wife, Mary Meliuiston, with lining threatening language towards her, and awear- ! ing lie wou.d take her life. The accused pleaded guilty, observing that lie was diunk at, the time. : Hi* Worship ordered him to Hud two sureties of i .Cou each to lie on his good behaviour i'ur the space ot mx months. I I.AIICKN'Y. Klizabeth i\vnes was brought on remand to rei ceivo senUnee lor a turkey I'roni Mr. Lycll, iof Kpsoin, i'or which offence she w - as tried on Wednesday last, liis "Worship said that he had seriously considered ' Ike ease and must iind her guilty. Jl he did his uu y , lie must order her to bo imprisoned f<»*" three months, hut lie was very hath to send a child of her age to prison. The Commissioner of I'oliee had informed iiiui that she was a very had girl, hut. wan encouraged by ilie parents. Tht; Commissioner had staled thai he would l)e able to keep her from contamination l'ol tim e days longer in prison, and he should thorelore sentence her to undergo that period of punishment, j lid trusted that she would e« me out a better girl. i ir.;.\ru ok wi-.ioirrs ant> mimm i:ks omilvanck. \\ m. M.uugh:.n stood • •haie.id w:th a bivaeh of this (. rdiiiaru e, by having, in his p« ss-.-tfr e: sf»»n uij? Uirnptd wi'iirbU. Tin; accused pleaded ami said (hi t ho utid; ij stood Monday was tlio la: t d. y lor stamping. His Worship ciud the oftho ordinance to show that a pi_nai.lv ot iilO could be intlie'.cd in such easts, and l.te- weights and measures forfeited It would wt'iu that leniency was 110 ellett whatever i lie should order ihe 11 -cuseu to pay a lint: ot -KM. urn: j and in iuture gave m/tice that he :»hou!d ini lliet. the full penalty. I Kdward Oxley, charged with a similar offence, wai | lined m the same amount.

Tivimas Teak -woa chaig ;d with an offence of the like nature. The accused did not appear. Tbo servico ot the suinm'ms being duly preyed, lMhva:d Ley land deposed: I am Inspector of "Weights and Measures. The defendant is a butchcr residing in Union-street." On t).o'23rd inst. 1 visited his shop to see if the veisli'ts and measures ■wore stamped. I found them unstamped, and therefore seized them in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The weights produced are the same I saw ot " the defendant. ills .vorship ordered the defendant to pay a fine'of •10s. and costs, and his weights anil measures to be broken up. .Tohn .Robertson pleaded' guilty to a similar offcnce, and was fined in the same amount. William Suyite also pleaded guilty to p, similar charge, and was fined in the like sum. Thomas Lynes, for same ollbnce, 40s. and costs. J homas Khove was charged with having a false ■ b.'ibiuce. b rum 1 * :l PP o:irctl for the accused, and pleaded ilis Worship observed that this was a most serious alhnr, tmil-that some distinction must be drawn betu*een Die two charges. Mr. Beveridge said ho trusted it would not be ns- . sinned that his client was in tire habit of using false weight . The balance was out of order at tlie time tho inspector called, but would take cave it (lid i not occur ngain. ?>•" licnch ordered the defendant to pav a finer of . Co and 065!,-.- .!■ i:l:.vcn ny l,"sv:; c;..v['.■ i: iMi'ot'NiniVG Acr. H;ch::rd Taylor, tor riH.iwing a horse to run at large, was tin.-M in the full- anient ot'-!0s. and costs. nUEACIt 1)1' llEl.iav OHIIINANCK. I'Jlen L'art against "Willkhi Hart; WfitUm l'ataki r, Herbert Blake. There was no KivpeiiTi'ow in those cases, .'ind they were consi-quently strcpb oJt' the li.st. I'IZTTV I.AUCKXV. !Fr,incis Gorman w.(S charged by one S. M. Green,with having stolen a pair of boots, value ys. fid., front his ■i'liop in Queen-street, on the afternoon of Thursday last. S." M. Green deposed *. I am a. shoemaker and saddler in Oueen-sfreet. { srfv.- the prisoner yesterrjav' about two o'clock at my shop. JT e asked ine wha't time it was. X observed he had something concealed wnder his eoat. I asked him what, be had (Wo. He replied"! have no property of yours." I insisted upon searching him, and lound the beots now pro-* dueed under his eoat. The boots were' hanging at the door. I can identiiy the hoots. I notice my shopman's writing. The' value of the boots is oa. fid. Ev the prisoner: the boots wore inside the shop. The prisoner stated that he had found the boots outside the shop, and he cariied l.hcm inside to give to the prosecutor, lie was drunk at the time, ile wits it mosl respect'aiile niiiji, and no thief. lie was proprietor of a large resijrarant in Victoria, lie could bring all the nobility of Victoria to give him a character. ILis V, crsliip said he was eleiuiy proved to' have committed the theft, and drunkenness was no excuse for his conduct. He should (ind the prisoner guilty, ii'.d order him to be imprii-ojied in the Comm.-i? Gaol of A uckland for the space of six weeks, and to be kept to hard lutionr-