RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 106, 19 March 1862, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT

: CHALMERS. (Before Captain Baldwin, R.M., and Captain

Thomson, J.P.) Friday, March 14 v

At this Court, on Friday, Henry Thomson was charged, on the information of the police, with throwing the carcases of ten sheep upon a public street in Port Chalmers, contrary to the Constabulary Force Ordinance, and also with drowning two sheep in the harbor of Otago, contrary to the 20th section of the Harbor Regulations. Having pleaded guilty, he was fined ss. for the first offence, and for the second offence a fine of £1 10a. was imposed, being ss. for each sheep, and £1 for the day they remained floating in the harbour, it being provided by the Ordinance, that any -person drowning any animal, or throwing a dead animal into the harbour, or below high water mark, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and to an additional penalty of £1 per day for each day the animal remains in the water or unburied above tide mark, the whole penalty not to exceed L2O. G. Kingston, Shipping Agent, was sued for the delivery of two boats, the property of James Turnbull. The plaintiff was absent, and Mr. Kingston asked for a remand till he should appear, stating that he had engaged the boats in question for three months, hut there being only evidence of a month's engagement, and Turnbull being represented by Arthur Brown, as his authorised agent, the Bench gave decision for the plaintiff. . . James Galbraith was sued by John Smith for five weeks' wases, as a temporary servant in the Port Chalmers Hotel. Mr. Galbraith's statement was that Smith had merely done a little work about the house a short time for "his food, aud the evidence being in favour of this statement, the plaintiff was non-suited.