RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 848, 1 June 1888, Page 24

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before Mr H. W. Robinson. R.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court last Friday, two persons were charged with drunkenness. One of them, who had already been 24 hours in the cells, was discharged on payment of cab-hire, q’be other was fined 5a and 2s uab-hire, or 12 hours tin default. Hu Worship refused an application made by Alexander O Driscoll that his son Alexander. aired M should be committed to an industrial school, on the ground that the father was unable to nav the cost of his son's maintenance at the School. Argument in tho case against TJenrv Wiseman, fisherman, charged with a breach of the Fisheries Conservation Act by fishing with a net at tho mouth of the Hutt lliver, was farther adjourned for a week.

Messrs G. Allen and F. Allen (Justices) presided at Saturday’s sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, John McGuire, an elderly man, was charged with the larceny of two pairs of blankets, value 30s, from James Bark, r, landlord of the Te Aro Hotel. It appeared that the accused had stayed at tho hotel ou the night of the 24tb. Next morning the blankets wore missed from the room, and they were subsequently traced to Mr Smart’s pawnshop. The accused was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment. Two persons were charged with drunkenness. One of them was fined 5s or 24 hours iu default, and tho other was discharged upon payment of 2s cab hire. A young man named Lawrence Led widge was charged with having stolen a bare, value 4«, from the shop of Alfred Gosliug, in Willis street. The accused said he was under the influence of liquor, and that ho had taken the hate for •a lark. The Bench sentenced the accused to a week’s imprisonment. A Maori woman named Mary Sharp, alias Mcri Koti, charged with attempting to commit suicide at Ofc.iki by cutting her throat, was remanded until Wednesday next. The hearing of tho charge of obtaining money by false pretences, preferred against Wm. J. W. Robinson, architect, by John A. Houguez, builder, was adjourned until next Monday, by Mr H. W, Robinson, lt.M., in tho Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday morning. Mr Levi appeared for tho prosecutor and Mr Gray for tho accused. Before Messrs H. W. Robinson, R.M., and James Pearce, Justice, in tho Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday,Mary Murray, alias Mullins, charged with usiug obscone iu Dixon-streeb on Saturday evening, was senteuced to three days ini* prisonment. A first offender for drunken, ness, who was arrested early on Sunday morning, was discharged with a caution. Daniel Davis,' similarly charged, was lined ss, or in default 12 houra’imprisonment. A young man named George Henniug was charged with being a deserter from H.M.S. Nelson. Ccnstabk Harnett gave evidence that ho had arrested tho accused at the Hutt. The Bench ordered that the accused be detained in custody until the arrival of one of Her Majesty’s ship 3iu New Zealand. An elderly man named John Ellsou Brown was charged with having erected a tent in Tina-kori-road in February last, contrary to tho city by-laws, and also with, maintaining the said tent after written notice had been given him to remove it. A fine of £L and 9s costs was imposed for the first offence, and £5 and costa 9s for the second. A youth named Duncan McColl was charged with haviug assaulted Grafton Bothamly, aged eight years, on the 24th May. Mr Chapman appeared for the complainant. After evidence had been heard, his Worship imposed a fine of £l, and costs 93., A charge against Bridget Egan of tailing to maintain her husband was adjourned for a week. Mr Gray represented the defendant. An application was made by George Underwood that his brother, Henry Underwood, should contribute toward his support, and was adjourned until Friday next. The complainant urged that he was unable to work,aud the adjournment was granted in order that be might produce medical evidence to show that his statement was correct. Mr Devine appeared for the complainant and Mr Gray for the def mdant.

When the case against Richard Smith, a settler residing at Pauatahanui, of sheep stealing, was called on in the .Resident Magistrate’s Coart on Monday morning, Mr Gully, who is conducting the prosecution, asked’ for an adjournment until Friday, as several of his witnesses were not present. No objection being made to tho remand by Mr Menteath, counsel for the accused, the Bench granted the application. The same bail as before was allowed, viz., two sureties of £IOO each, and the accused in his own recognisance of £2OO. Two spielers, John Goldsmith, alias Hart, and Duncan Cameron, alias Morris, sentenced at the Wanganui Police Court to three mouths’ imprisonment in Wellington gaol for vagrancy, were brought down by train on Monday night in charge of Constable Mackel.

At the Magistrate’s Court Tuesday morn* nm, before Mr H. W. Robinson, R.M., the man Henry Wilsou, who was arrested by Detective Campbell on the previous after, noon on a charge of obtaining board and lodging by means of false representations from Edmond Newland, at New Plymouth, on tho 22nd March, wa3 sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Before Mr IT. W. RobinsoD. R.M., in the Magistrate’s Court Tuesday afternoon, the Maori woman, Meri Roti, aliaß Mary Sharp, who attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat at Otaki last week, was brought up and charged with the offence. She acknowledged her guilt, and his Worship decided to bind her over to keep the peace for a poriod of six months, a relation of the accused, Mr T. Roach, acting as surety in a sum of £2O for her good behavior during that term.

Plaintiffs were awarded judgment in the following civil cases by Mr H. W. Robiuson, R.M., in the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tue-day : -Thomas Bilby V George Swanson, £lO Iss 0(1, and costs £1 10s ; Dr Cahill v Otto Haase, £6 19s fid, and costs 11s ; , Charles Stuart and Co. v Malcolm McDonald, £6 4s, and costs £1 12s ; F. Cooper v John Ayles, £2 Os 2d, and costs Cs ; Happy Valley Moat Co. v William H. Wilton, £7, and costs 7s; C. Nees and Son v Thomas Bennett, £6 11s 3d, and costs lls; Charles Brown v Alexander Bullock, £1 3s, and costs 7s ; L. M. King v W. Steinmuller, £1 ss, and costs £1 10s.

Mr H. W. Robinson, R.M.. gave judgment in the civil case William J. Robinson, architect, v. Mary Ann Houghton, claim, £34 18s 2d, for commission and services rendered in connection with the erection of a double villp. residence in Willis-street, in ISB6, in tho Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. His Worship considered that the justice of the case would be mot by a judgment for £5 without costs, with the exception of the coats of tho adjournment on tlie 3rd May, amounting to £1 fid. The plaintiff was represented by Mr Gray, and Mr Skerrett (instructed by Mr W. B. Edwards) appeared for the defendant.

Messrs J. H. Bethune and C. A. Baker, justices, presided at the Resident l Magis-

trate’s Court on Wednesday, A fine of 5s or in default 24 hours’ imprisonment was recorded against Fanny Cook, who did not appear in answer to a charge of having been drunk in Willis-street on the previous day. For driving a cart in Adelaide road after dark on the 19th inst, without carrying lights, Isaiah Walsh was fined 5s aud 7s costs. This was all the business.

At the last sitting of the Hutt Resident Magistrate's Court, it will be remembered a rather important point was raised by Mr C. Bunny, who was acting for the defendant in a civil case brought by Mr Von Meyern against a native, Aoraugi Te Puni, to .the effect that the particulars of demand, as well as tho summons, should be translated into the Maori.language. The summons had been translated into Maori, but Mr Bunny urged that tho particulars of claim were also part of the summons, and should therefore also have been translated. At the sitting of the Court on IVednesday, the J ustices—Messrs D. gladden and E. Jackson-who presided on the former occasion, gave their decision on the point raised. They held that the objection was fatal to the suit, and they accordingly nonsuited the plaintiff. Mr 11. W. Robiuson, R.M., who was present, intimated that he agreed with the decision. '