RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4122, 25 April 1885, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

YESTERDAY. [Before 0. Cubtis, Esq., R.M.] Robert Pollock and Martin Lightband were each fined 5s and costs for allowing horses to stray in the streets. Oscar Richard Frost for tethering a horse in Nile street was fined Is and costs. Christopher Smith Cross, charged with having embezzled £37 10s, the .money of the Wanganui Heads Railway Company in April, 1884, was,' on the application of Inspector Atcheson, remanded till Tuesday,, by which time he expected the warrant would.arrive. Bail was granted, the accused in £200, and two sureties in £100, each., Mr T. Harley and fMr J. K. Little became Burieties ; Thomas Drdih;was charged with having indecently exposed himself in Collingwood street. Constable Rogers and a witness named Harris proved the offence. The accused was sent to gaol for seven days. , W:H. Miller, aged'l2 years, E. C. Miller ; ,aged 10, and TI. A. Miller, aged 9, were charged with stealing on the 24th instant, 281bs of coals, the property of Mr J. S. Cross. It appeared from the evidence that a considerable amount of pilfering of coal and ! firewood hasbeen oarriecl on for some' time past from the Commercial and other wharves. The boy H. A. Miller,was caught by Constable Phair carrying some coal away in a sack, which, Miller admitted he had got from under the Commercial Wharf. Mr Askew said the plan adopted by,the thieves was to throw the coal off the wharf and stow', it near the'piles till it was convenient to carry it away.' ' The Resident Magistrate considered that ' there was no evidence to show that the boys took the coal from the wharf.'andhe discharged them, at'the same time" administering a'caution to their mother about receiving into ■ her house things the boys might bring- home, as they had doiie the coal.' If boys were encouraged to; take things home in that manlier, he considered the parents deserved punishing more than the boys did.