RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 36, 2 June 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before T. W. Pakkki:, Esq., 3!. M.) ••IS iUKVIXC AN OKUKU OF TIIE COL'IIT

Xiel M'l'hee, arrested on warrant from <'iui.-tchtircli, was charged with not having complied with an order requiring him to pay the sum of £1 los. per week from the beginning of April last towards the support of liis wire and family. The prisoner was remanded, to allow time for communication by telegram with the Christehurch authorities. or ri'Ei.K -norsK oiioixance. •Joiiii Kichuioiitl, licensee of the Queen s Hotel, was charged with a breach of the .'!2nd suction of thy above Ordinance, oil the IlUli May last. Sub-Inspector M'L'lusky jirosecutcd, and Mr. Baluier appeared for the defendent. Constable Moroncy deposed that lie Mason duty 011 the morning of the 19th ult., and at about 12.-15 went into the Queen's Hotel. The bar was lighted up, ami he saw two men .-(andiug before a tiap-\iindow opening into the- bar. There some empty glasses in front of them. ' Mrs. Hichmond and the barman were behind the bar. Did not know who the men were. Constable Donovan was with me when 1 went inside. The hall door was open when 1 -_'ot there. Did not see any liquor .-old

Coii.-table l>..novan gave corroborative evidence, and the Bench then dismissed the case. The same defendant was also charged with a further breach of the Ordinance, in that lie did unlawfully permit four men to remain in his licensed house 011 the ISth ult., in a state of intoxication. After hearing the evidence of constables Morowy and Donovan, the Bench lined the defendant 2('s.