RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 787, 25 June 1864, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I Fhidat, June 2-Ith. \ (Pi-fore A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) I D*.ctkk.—.fame* Musgrove, charged with lieing ■fruuk. was fined 20s. or forty- eight hours' im-•.ir?:-..nmei:t. a ssaoj ■'■' 1- -i a Pbaman.— William EdmoDSton. ;uafe ot ■■•; !.:y^|iw Pride of the West, now in ±c P;.>-, was 1.-rou-.'fat up on a. warrant, charged ,-ic:> hfjvlnff a-saultecl and 'beaten Thimas W. Arthur. *. se?.U'«n en boar:! the same barque, while 3.x, YOIS Ch.iimei-* on the evening of tha 3th in«t. Tiioiia;. Ar'har stated—On line evening of the 9th ii -ttmit we '.had been hoisting up one anchor in order bvw: the ship up to Dunetlin. While below I beard iLe boatswain sinar oat for ti'.i-ee hands to set. into th* One of the men wb<: sm calle.l for, Jolm Mason, could not find hi* .iaokefc, and we xin-r- kept a short tircv waiting. Mason vent 01; deck first, ana when f pot up I fa 17 the pris- EPr with Ma^on down on th<-; deck, be-atins" and kicking him. When I stewed on desk p: iMonnr gave me ft Slow on the bead thac knocketi me joivn. Hfl then seized me; by iiie hair, iioldin-r my head do^n and punci^atr me in the face. The bou^wnin came up and saiil | to the laate. " Let us pifcoL inio them." They both fell on me, and i then struck out in selfdefence, and don't kflow who I struck _as mv hea(i wa3 down.. I then went fomaru. and while

en the gangway the prisoner fol'owed nic and struck and kicked me again, aad at.am

I kicked nw- while I was going down into the boat. We took the pilot ashore and came back fo the ship. After we had hoisted the boat up, ' I asked the boatswain why he had struck rae. He said he vraa not afraid to strike me asali;. aad be called the second mate to come and help 1 him, bur. the second mate said he would sea fni:- ---! pb.v b?i.f:'eei! us. At this time the prisoner 1 can.p -ip ;rora; the cabin and seized me by the ! tiivoiit, knocked ::;e down, «vi« dragged me on to i ihf- p.:ir by the hair of tb»? head, and kicked me there. The prisoner has threatened to put. me on braru 01 the first nian-ofwar he met at sea, and i e i attempted to run away he would shoot me_ I Etsvfcr grave, the "ate any provocation for ill-using me, and I never r-efused to do mytJmy. Jolm Mason, a seaman oa board the same barqi:.., said —Wiiec I came on deck that night the prisoner strnck me, knocked me down, and kicked inc. Wieu I »ot up I saw the mate and Arthur sfiifiiiu;;, a^;d the mate striking andjdeking bim. Cross-examined by the prisoner—l have been ou bear.i the ship three years with you. imt I never received any Volence at your_ hand. _ The prisoner made a,'statement in which he said— T ordered tbe boatswaiii to tell three men tn %o info the boat, and he afterwards ame aft and I told me thai ihe men would not co into the L-jat. ! J weia forward andsunerout to the men to come to I thc-ir dim. Mason camo up and 1 gave bim a shove find i said if he would not go to the boat I won Id [ help him alonp- Masea t,!<rued re-and on me ami struck out, and when we were ticntfliuaArthur came on deck and cimmei;ced to help Mason against me. I struck down Mason ;n a I passion, and I gave Arthur a push by the back i of toe head to send him forward to the boat, awi I all the way he continued to fiive me iroperti- | nence. I'M give him a gentlepusb wher he ! was «oin? uver into the boat, and say that if he 1 did not go at once I would shove him down. After gains ashore we came back to the ship and the boat ws# ho-'eted up. I was down in the cabin with the Captain, when we heard Arthur and some otbrr one quarrelling and scvittir.i' about. The Cap am ordered me to go «nd bring I that man aft. I went forwerd and fou:id that

Arthur had struck an apprentice boy, nnd I just took him by the hair of the head and dragged Mm on to the poop. The boatswain of the barque cor-obnrated the prisoner's statement that he only gave iha complainant a slight.push, and dfd not kick him. The complainant gave the mate a great uraount of impertinence before he went in the boat. T'le Magf&trate said that at times officers of me.-cbant vessels had a great deal to conteud with at. the hands of seamen, and sometimes seamen suffered a good deal at the hands of their officers, and the men wtro often .-hameiulk maltrented even within the limits of a British port. The powers of oi/i'jsrs o?" merchantmen while in blue water were very great, but while within the limits of a British port their powers over the seaiaer. were s?■ nothing. There every complaint against the men must, be brought before the Magistrate to decide, and be would teach the prisoner that whils in this port it would not be a word and a blow. He had i)"en himself at sea, and he knew welt what, a mate's shove was—it per- "rad y was launch -half-wav across the deck. It wus evident to him that the complainant in this case had been shamefully used, and he would make this a caution to the prisoner to tesch him that men were not io r.e struck and kicked about like hruie beasts within clifc limits of a British por;. He -K-o-afd fine the prisoner hi and costs, or 14 days imprisonment. Stealing Mon by., — -John. Hamilton was charged with stealing 'twenty or thirty shillings in silver from the till oi the Carriers' Arms Hotel, Oiversliam Road, on the 23rd instant. .Wifilw.l Pagan, keeper of the hotel, stated that tiie pii'onef came into the br.r and paid Is which he bad been owing for drinks. He waited a few rpirintrs in the bar, and during that time th». barium. Jeft the bar, and when he came back the prisoner was gone, and all the money wh'ch had hfon in the till, about 20s. wf:n him. ii'e gave information to the police, and Detective Wuale,_a short time afterwards, arreswd the prisoner in the P"."'H-ck Eotel, and found upon him 20s 6d jr, -■ iv-er coin, answering; to the desoription f-\ those loss. Prisoner pleaded tha;; he was drunk at the time, but the witnesses swore that Lv iiad haen drinking but knew well what he was about. Prisoner was sentenced to two months' iinprisoiunc.it with hard labor.

cirrii casks. Johnston v. DonnoUy— Claim of L 5 Us. The uefendanb was formerly a constable in the police force, Dunerlin, and the plaintiff was caterer for the constable' mess at the barracks. IVfeudant wn? transferred to the Dunstau, and when he went away he left with the plaintiff an order for L 5 Us in payment of all arrears, which sura was to bo stopped out of defendant's pay. Plaintiff lefi, the order at the office with the then paymaster of the force, Mr Finnic, but he never received the money for it Defendant pleade'l t-.at the order vvaich he had left with plaintift nad been duW forwarded along with the; pay-sheets to the B^mian, and that he had paid the amount to Eorpeaiii Wilson there. Case dismissed. Akxaader Telftr v. Ann Carr and Frank Carr —Claim of LlO IBs being amount of pass-t.ee money from Melbourne to Dunedin, a pair of boots, and Fdveral weeks' board pr.id for and supplied ti.. the female defendant by plaintiff, before she. was married to Frank Oarr. The female defendant pleaded that she was asked to come ovev from Melbourne with plaintiff in order to take charge of his four children on the voyage. and in consideration of this he was to pay her passa-<7, He admitted having made the arrangement s to the boird while in Dunedin. The Ma^-i' trate gave judgment for the plaintifi'in the s'lrzTof LlO Is End costs, at the same time tellins tiic male defendant he should be very thankful to hay i got such a comely wife tvv LlO. i adgmcnfs in the following cases were given for tbo plaintifls by default of the defendants :-£>. Wendell v. O'Day, 153 lOd; Ke-r and Co. r. ■J.'irpcs Potter. L2O; De Carle v. J. Riddle, hi 13s ; Biaek and Thomson v. Seater, L1915s 8d ; Tell v. Fargie, L 2 sa.

I'moging of Women in Austrian Poj,/ x]>._A letter from Lemberg (Galieia), in the Pivs-? of Vienna, says:—"Since the beginning of ti.e Month the military tribunals of this province, have been actively occupied. They try, on an average, four cases a day. A certain number of persons have been, condemned to corporal punwhments for various offences, particularly for liavmsrinsultedsentinebwhenon duty. Several individual have been bastinadoed or whipped for rhat misdemeanour, among them two women— Julia Chorootowka, a dressmaker, a?ed 34, who received ten lashes; and Catherine Samborska, a servant, aged 20, who had a similar punishment. A great number of persons have been condemned to imprisonment for from one month to four. A shopkeeper generally shuts up at sunset. His wife, isn't apt to "shut up" before she falls asleep.