RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 538, 3 August 1865, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Thomas Beekham, Esq., R.M.) IIttUNKKNXESS. Several persons, amongst, them two Wahoos, were brought before his Worship, chr.rged with drunkenness,°and "['On conviction fined 205., or sentenced to be imprisoned for 4K hours. His Worship inquired where the two Wahoos were taken. The enn'tublt! said they were taicen at tho Uroyhound, in Queen-street. His Worship said it should be ascertained where these natives t;ot drink. The CoinniisHinner said that these two men were "Wahoos. Thev did not come within the operation of the Ordinance applying to the supply of drink to the natives. The case had been decided. OirV-N'CKS ACi'l>"3T THE MUNICIPAL POLICE ACT. Stephen Foley was lined 40a. and costs for furiously driving a horse through the city, contrary to the provisions of the Municipal Police Act. cauti'iv. —'.lis-nircTioN or the iootpathb. Ivlward Moonev, "W. Ferguson, "W. Sing. John Turner, and David Trono were severally fined 20s. for allowing their horses to stand across tbe footway, i Several of them pleaded that the obutruction did not last I'jr fiveViinutes. I His Worship said they had been publicly warned. | Hie safety and convenience of tin; public was o ] paramount consideration, to which the personal and ! monetary convenience of the defendants must yield. | T. Tipps and "W. l-'inlay were fined 40s. and costs, | for severallv allowing a horse and dray 10 stand ! across the footpath.

LAUCEXY. W. 11. "Mills was brought up and remanded to .Friday upon ;i charge of stealing wearing apparel to the value of £\i lis. Oil. from George Morey at die bricklayer's .inn-, Chapel-street; also apparel from VV. Snrll, Onehunga. Jamed lirown wa3 charged with stealing two loaves ofhrcadand two pounds of cheese from Mrs. Anne Wallace of Victoria-street. The prisoner said he had eaten nothing for three davs, and could get 110 work. Kis Worship said ho could haidly think that the prisoner could not find work. The fact was there was plenty of work, but workmen would not work unless they obUiuffd enormous wa-es. They then I ell into idle habits and ultimately fell back upon stealing. He sentenced the prisonor to two'montW ' imprisonment with hard labour.