MAYOR'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2801, 28 January 1871, Page 3

MAYOR'S COURT.

Fhiday, 27th January. -{Before His Worship the Mayor, and W. Mason, Esq., J.P.) Drunkenness, &o—Joseph Muggins, for being drunk in Maclagg&n street at 11 o'clock ■on Thursday night,- was discharged with a -«aution. Elizabeth Webster, who bad, in Stuart Btreet at. 11 o'clock on the night pre•vieus, conducted herself in a manner calcu lated to provoke a breach of the peace, was "fined 40s, or in default of payment to go to gaol for seven days. George Taylor, who attempted to rescue, and incited other perflonß to rescue, the last prisoner from the of Sergeant Baxter, and who had used violent and abusive language, was fined LlO, or. failing payment of fine, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. . Remanded.—George Murdochj on remand, ■and who was charged with assaulting and robbing E. J. Sanders on the Junction was again remanded till Monday, as h\a counsel was in attendance at another 'Court; ....'■ ~. ■, '.!, r'V. '.'■.'■'' .-■ ' .'■..' ,■ 'ByE-LAWSi^-Therewaaanadjournedcharge against James M'Lennan of allowing a cow "to wander, adjourned?-as Mrs M'Lennan disputed the ownership of the cow; and as Inspector Nimon, who was almost certain that the cow was the property of the defendant, fcut could not swear positively so: and not; wishing to put him to expense, '■ had, !qn the firet occasion, not called a witness. ; A. little bby-whom he called: to-day, deposed as to the ownership' of the ""cow, and other eyi<£enoe of the .Inspector's.— The defendant was fined 20s and costs. Louia Solomon was charged with casting BiJght^soil^in a :right-bf-v?ay leading from Princes street to the rear of Wain's Hotel. •He pleaded not guilty. An employe" at Wain's Hotel said that he had on several occasions seen the defendant throw, parcels 5 -of filth onto the roof of the hotel; and that when they chanced to strike the wall,< he •threw, them back again. Defendant denied that he had cast night-soil into the right-of-way, but aaid that he had thrown it out of ; the right-of-way, saying that on his door open■hig into which he had found parcels, at 'whose contents he, on was much disgusted, and threw them away, not thinking at the time where they would go to. " Such parcels bad been deposited on his doorstep since the Casino was opened.. The o ; witness,, being re-called, stated that he had ; *een the defendant throw the parcels, opent'lag the door only to a width sufficient to allow of their being.thrown through, and at - other times had heard the door close on the parcel being thrown. There -is .; no water--closet attached to the defendant's premises. Sergeant Baxter said that whilst on night duty he made it a particular part of his duty "t^> inspectthevarious right-of-ways, and,had on the door of the defendant, which opened into the right-of-way, seen such par>«^lS or nightsoil exposed. Besides, the door in view of the passers-by. The danceionse spoken of was, he believed, open on Thursday evening only, and was always out the Theatre. The, Bench said that, -apart from the fact as-to who first deposited the filth, according to the defendant's statement, in the right-of-way, it was clearly .proved that he bad thrown it on to a roof, a place where he Bhould not have placed it, and where the water collected therefrom, which was tainted by it; might by accident have been used for drinking pur Doses The placing it there was in itself a breach of "the Bye-law. He should have removed it to -a ..place fitting to receive it. Defendant;— 35ut it was so disgusting. His Worship.— ■It was still more disgusting of you to throw, itroa the roof.- He was fiaed 10s and costß.