THE COURTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 22

THE COURTS.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE S COURT. A man named George Stokes was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on Friday with having deserted his wife and three children at Christchurch. On the application of Detective Kerby the accused Wife remanded to Christchurch. Three with drunkenness, were discharged upon payment of expenses, and Sarah James, an old offender, similarly chargei, was lined 20s, in default 48 hours’imprisonment. Eight persons were fined 5s each for drunkenness at the Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning, and Eliza Wilson, an old offender, was fined 10s. Frank Reeve, charged with having on the 22nd of July last forged and uttered a cheque for £2 ss, purporting to be signed by William Reeve, was defended by Mr C. E. Bunny. On the application of Detective Kirby the accused was remanded until Thursday. Bail was allowed, the accused in £SO and two sureties of £25 each. Thomas Goddard pleaded guilty at the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to a charge of using obscene language. It appeared that the accused, being under the influence of liquor, addressed disgusting language to a number of children in Man-ners-street on Tuesday afternoon. He was sentenced to three days’ hard labonr. John Kelly, alias O’Shannessy, admitted being found by night on Mr Drury’s premises in Upper Willis-street, and was discharged in order that he might go to work he had obtained in the country. The case in which Captain Adams was charged with assaulting J. D. Pinkerton, at the Hutt, was heard at the Magistrate’s Court, Hutt, on Wednesday, Messrs Sladen and Manning, Justices of the Peace, presiding. Mr Fitzherbert was for the prosecution, and Mr Jackson for the defence. The bearing of the case occupied the Court for some time, and eventually the defendant was fined £5, and ordered to pay £4 14s 6d costs, half the fine to go to the prosecutor.

(per press association.) Invercargill, December 28. The barquentine Annie Bow, which sailed from the Bluff for Adelaide with a cargo of timber some four months ago, and which was compelled by the crew to put back, after being some days out, on the allegation of her unseaworthiness, arrived yesterday at the Bluff, with a cargo of 380 tons of Chesterfield guano. The crew, on being brought before the Bench of Justices charged with refusing to proceed on the voyage, were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, on which a monster petition was got up, praying for their release, which the Governor declined to accede tf>. The vessel has, been trading to various ports in Australia since she left here with the cargo of timber already referred to.