RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. SATURDAY, 4TH OCTOBER. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.)

Otago Daily Times, Issue 248, 6 October 1862, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. SATURDAY, 4TH OCTOBER. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.)

Drunkenness, —Mary Ann Taylor and Thomas White were eacii fined 20s. arid costs, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. Charge op Robbery.—Marie Germain was eharg-ed with stealing two £10 notes of the Bank of New Zealand.and a sovereign, from James Johnes, miner, in a house in Princes-street. She was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. A TICKET-OF-LEAVE Man FROM VICTORIA. Thomas Johnston, alias James Brown, was charged ■with being a convict and illegally out of Victoria.Detective Tuckwell stated that he appreh«ndeJ the prisoner on Friday, in Jctty-stveet, when he said that I his name was Joseph .3rown. There was information that several ticket-of-leave men had' recently arrived from Melbourne. On searching the .Victorian Police Gazette he found m the number of the 4th September' last the name of Thomas Johnston as having been tried at Carisbrook, in Septembar, 1860, and sentenced to five years for burglary, the description given entirely corresponding- with that of the prisoner. He (Tuckwell) learned that the prisoner was associated with the pickpockets who were convicted on Friday, and had been stopping in the same tent with them off Stafford-street. He therefore went to the place, and in a bundle of clothes, which the prisoner was said to have left there, he fcund a ticket-of-leave, the description and marks set forth in -which, exactly tallied with those of the prisoner. The magistrate.saiii he had no doubt whatever the prisoner was illegally at large ; and he would be remanded to Victoria, to be dealt with there. '

Using Threats. J.S. Ashley was charged with threatening the life of Agnes Callender, at East Taieri. The complainant stated in her information, "He took up a knife saying he would plunge it into me, and that he would never be content until he had got my life." The defendant, who said lie was drank at the time, was ordered to find sureties for his keeping the veace for aix^months. ' ; ■■■•.■ Nuisakoes.—Constable Nimon reported that nuisances had been abated in the cases, of Joseph Bates, Amos King, Win. Butement, and Joseph Wilkie. John Mahony was fined 20a and costs for being too far from his horse and cart ia Princes-street. - otvii* cases. <r A. T. Campbell v. H. Samson.—The plaintiff claimed LI 4 lls for damages consequent upon irijury to flour lauded ex schooner Dart, the defendant being the captain. The case was dismissed, the magistrate Biying he was clearly of opinion that the damage arose from the plaintiff'sneglect. "SV S. and A. Lazarus" v. Wm. Fuller, reported on Saturday, should have-been "S. and S.! Lazarus."