RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2051, 1 September 1868, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, August-31st. (Before A. Chetham-Strodie, Esq.^ S.M.) Drunkenness.—DavidGraham, John Adamson, James Logan, and' Samuel Bell, were each fined 10s for*- drunkenness. Alexander Dixon, and Baraei M'Kechy, also charged with drunkenness, were dismiss'ed'without penalty,, as each of them hadbeen in the lock-up,from Saturday oiffht. ■

:. An Escape.—Benjamin,Harvey, alias Benjamin Fox, was brought up on remand charged with having stolen L 7 ircrii the person of Jolm Flanagan. At the previous examination the prosecutor had refused to repeat-or to confirm the statement he had made to the police. The [ Commissioner of : Police said: that the prosecutor's statements were so contradictory that he would not go on with the case.—The -prisoner -was discharged. Petty Theirs..; —, Henry Entwistle pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen three pots : and a. frying-pan, the property of William Hay. The complainant -had!'missed- the article^ and they had been found at-; the prisoner's house by Detective Geldie.. The prisoner was sentenced to -five months' imprisonment, with hard labor.

CIYII, GASES. M'Kenzie v. Frome,—ln this case the plaintiff had received a telegram from1 the defendant, staging that ,the amount of the claim., had beeii sent" to Dunedin.—The easel was ad journed Until Friday. Kelly vi Huston.-^ A claim of L 7 155.-r-Jndgment "by consent for the amount claimed, the defendant agreeing to pay instalments of 35s a week. Thercaaea Wurm D.Kellar, Horth and Another v. Crawford, and Flexn\an Bros. v. Banks, were dismissed for noa:appear- : aace.: ; '' -: *■ • The following cases were heard: in. the I gaol, the prisoners being under committal upon other charges :— A Vai.uexess Cheque. —EdwardLovell, was charged with having, on the 26th July at Waihola 3 fraudulently obtained money by means of a valueless cheque. Alexander Marshall, keeper of the Lake Hotel, Waihola, said that, on the day in question, the prisoner gave him a cheque purporting to be drawn by Edward Lovett. The cheque was for Ll 10s, and the prisoner received Ll—the balance Veing deducted for board and lodoina1. The prispner Jiad endorsed the cheque,

and had stated that he obtained it from a man at the Blue Spur in payment for some mining tools he had sold.—Evidence was given proving that no person of the name of Lovett, or Lovell, had an account at the Bank upon which the cheque was drawn.—The prisoner was committed for trial.

Forgery.—John Morrison was charged with having, on the 21st of June last, forged and uttered a cheque for Lls. John Prosser/ hotelVeeper, Hampdenj said that he had cashed for the prisoner a cheque upon the Bank of New Zealand, for Lls, and which purported to be drawn by James Murison. The prisoner had told him that the cheque had been given to him by Mr Murison of Mahitoto Plains. On presentation, the cheque was dishonoured, it being marked "signature unlike." Mr James Murison proved that the signature to the cheque was not his ; and the prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial.