RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 451, 9 October 1877, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before T. W. Parker, Esq., R.M.) CATTLE AT LARGE. Maria Towusend was fined 4s. for allowing two cows to be at large. OBSTRUCTING RAll "WAY OFFICIALS. His Worship gave his decision upon the case heard yesterday against Patrick Mooney of obstructing Alex. Allan, a railway official, in the performance of his duty. His Worship dismissed the charge, remarking that the preponderance of the evidence was in favour of the defendant. PROTECTION ORDER. Mary Ann Thompson applied for an order protecting her earnings from her husband, Charles William Ihompson, on the ground of desertion The defendant did not appear. Jlr. Balmer app- ared for the complainant." The evidence of complainant was to the effect that her husband, who was formerly a fishmonger in Camaru, had deserted her, leaving children unprovided for. She v.hs ouite willing to work for the suppot of children, and asked that an urder. might be made protecting her earn- ! -.~i. She knew of no reason for her husband leaving her. ASSAULT. Laura Mansehouche was charged with lairing, on the 17th September, ac Oamaru, sss-aaited Ellen Cover. Tite defendant, in broken Engli-h, sai-1 that sfee could not speak or understand the English language very well. His Worship thought it would be well to obtain the st-sistauce of an interpreter, but he would first hear what the complainant had to say. The complainant made a rambling and almost unintelligible statement as to the nature of the assault. His Worship then adjourned the case for & fortnight;, for the purpose of obta niug the tervices pj" sui fnte preter. ■'UUM^* ' ■*^ l — l^^M —"^"'*'