RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1171, 3 October 1865, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, 2nd Octoueh. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M,

DnuNK ahi Disorderly. — James Rillev was charged witii having beendrunk, but be denied the charge. The constable stated that he had arrested the defendant's mate, when the defendant followed thnn to the station gate using very threatening language on tac way, and behaving in a disorderly manner. The defendant stated that he followed his mate to the station, and merely asked the constable if he had taken his mate into custody, when the- constable seized - him,' B?yiiig " I shall take you too." There were' no witnesses, and the Magistrate said that as he had a donbt in his jumd as to the state in which the prisoner was, he wouid=give hitn'thC'benefit of that doubt. The defendant was discharged. John Brooks was charged witlr attempting to rescue a prisoner from the lawful cirs'ouy of the police. The defendant stated that he was under the influence of drink, and remembered nothing about: the'i'nwtter. He wag firied -L 3 and costs, oc* ten days* imprisonment with hard labor, Biowti,: William Banks, John K^ing, IX ury Mttchen, Robert Morrison, Tnbmas Dunnelly, Howard Ltar, Margaret Ferons, and Allan Waugb, charged with having been drunk, »i-ere each • fined UOs, or 4,8 hours 1 imprisonment! Mary. Ann Bradley wa3 charged with having made me of obscene languege in Stafford street, and; \yas-fined 20s, or forty-eight1 hours' imprisonment; " ,"' ' ■"' Stealing a Suip*s'Asciisß.— Edward Shitls was charged on the inforaiati jn of William Simpson, master of the schooner Storm Bird,' with stealing, on the 30th September, a ship's anchor, valued (iojr the purposes of the information) at 20s. The complainant stated that on Friday la«t the Bird was l.ving at Jetty Street Jetty, and on that afternoon he taw one of his anchors lying in' a' punt alongside .his.vessel, but .he, missed it .at daylight next morning. He next saw * the anchor when it was brought up from Port Chalmers by the water puliee. George Hcpburo, second mite of the Storm Bird, had seen .an anchor King outside the 'jCourt. It belonged to the Storm Bird. jlle Baw,it.on Friday afternoon on hoard ( a punt lying" alongside the Storm Bird, and lie next saw it on bjard the prisoner's '.I'-Mer, the Queen, at Port Chalmers. One of the water police constables'stated that as he was pulling off to visit the r.risoner's lighter he-siw him leaving in a boat, and he called him back. The prisoner then said he was going ashore to the poliosstation to report the. fact of a strange anchor being aboard his lighter. The constable found the anchor lashed over the .starboard bowof the lighter. It was exposed to public view. • The prisoner stated that he left: the wharf verysnddenly when a fair wind sprungf'up. There was no person onboard the-lighter but hi'mVelf, and ho got. dowa as; far as the.Browery that night. Next morning, wh-n he came on deck, lie saw a strange anchor on board. He immediately hauled up for the Port, and was g( ing ashore as the constable stated to rep'brt the circumstance to the police, as be ba/1 no idea how the anchor got.:on board. The .Magistrate- said; he could scarcely believe thxt the prisoner had nothing to do with taking this aticbor, ss there was no o her per/on, on board the lighter but himself.' As there was nothing known against the prisoner, and-he was willing to believe that this was his first offence, he would "deal with it accordingly, The/ sentence' was six weeks* imprison' .nient-wilb. hard-labor.- ....,...;,-—— ; Ciiabgu of House Stealing^—Thomas Lees was charged, on a warrant, with, stealing, between the Ist. March and the 27th September, four head of cattle, the property of Mr Treweek, of Tuapeka.' The prisoner was remanded to Tuapeka to| appear at the Resident Magistrate's Court there on Friday morning next, and he was) admitted to bail. , [ CIVIL CASES. W. M. Pollock v. John Routed,— Claim of 12s 6d (or a quantity of butchers' meat supplied. The defendant denied having received the meat in question, and the ouly evidence the plaintiff could, produce was that the entry appeared in his book, but ■in tbe handwriting of another, person. r The case.was dismissed. ' Sargoo I,', King .and Sargood w Thomas Rodgersoni-^-Clatm of "ESS 1 Vs 3d, reduced to L2O, for drapery goods supplied. The

defence. was that the goods were supplied to the "defendant's wife previous to her marriage., This was admitted . for; the plaintiffs, and, they were non-suited, on the ground of iion-joinder in the action of the defendant's wife. , ' J. Wihton y. William Wilson.—-Claim ot L 5 6s for' rent of a piece of land at Is per day. This case was adjourned until Wednesday next for the production of the agreement under which the.land was let. A. "J. Johnston v. ijumuel Marks.— Claim of L2O. The plaintiff did not appear, and was.non-suited with costs. Judgments by consent were given in the following cases;— Scott end Ileid v. Wm. Linn, Lll 15s Id, for sundry blacksmith's work done. A. Muir v. Margaret Buchanan, L 5 10?, the amount of an lOU. Judgments by default wire given in the following cases: William Towers v. fc\ Coxhead, Ll 5 I4s 9d, the amount of an lOU and interest. David Greig v. Andrew Wilson, LIG 16s Bd, for sundry ironmongery goods. . John Edmond v. Augustus Stokes, L 3 Isi 6d, for horse feed. Dismissed for non-appearance:—ll. J. Richards v. James Kirkland, 12a 6d; J. Finch and Co. v. G. Greenfield, sen., Ll6 8s; Stephen Hutchison v. W. L. Mack«y, L 3 3s; A. G. Hunjrerford v. J. E. James, L 8 5s 2d; M. V. Hodge v. H. 11. Campbell, LlB 0.4 6d ; W. L. Mackay v. Thomas Garrett, L 3: John Cook v. James Ruaton, L 3.