RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1997, 21 January 1890, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before A. M. Clark md K. F. Gray, Esq?., J P.’s] CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. John Kyne was charged with having unlawfully worked four horses which bud sore shoulders, on the 17th instant.

Mr Wilson Smith pleaded guilty on behalf of the defendant, but asked the Court to see the horses and say for themselves whether they were so bad as that their owner should deserve punishment. Mr Clark said he bad seen them, and asked the defendant bow long he had been working them.

The defendant : Four weeks, between the Rangitata and Timaru. I have only worked the two worst horses a few hours since they got bad, I was just going to give them a spell.

[The Court then went to see the horses, which wore in Mr Nicholas’s stables.] Constable Egan stated that at about half-past ten there were two teams standing near Ooira’s, and witness looked at thorn. The horses in question had sore shoulders. They had large loads of wool on. The defendant said he was only

working them three days a week. In reply to the Court defendant paid he had 28 bales on the waggon. Mr Clark said they could not let the defendant off. There was a good road and there was no excuse. The usual punishment was to send defendant to gaol for a few months, and if he had been brought before men less practical than the present Court he would have been sent there. However, the Court would deal leniently with him, and let him off with a fine of -61 per horse.

CIVIL CASES. v J. Washington—Claim ±,B 2s 4d.— Tne claim was admitted, and judgment was given for the amount claimed and eosts, to be paid i n instalments of 10s per week until it was all paid. W. Binley y. J. Turner—Claim 10 s. Mr Aspinall for plaintiff and Mr Wilson Smith for defendant. Mr Aspinall said both plaint : ff and defendant were aerated water manufacturers : T f ( eai l, Wltll .^ r Ftn,ton > of the Tcrnuka I -lote.l -1-he defendant took away from ■ he hotel buttles be'ouging to the plaintiff i '-'aliii' of 10-., cud henr- : the nub i . M-n .gnu the business for j his fatoer. bnppned me Temuka Hote> I with lemonade and aerated water, (j n | the 9th December went mere and put }

bottles behind the bar, but when ho returned the bottles were gone. Was told they had been taken by the defendant. 3

James Turner ; On the 9th December last went to Mr Fenton’s and took his own bottles. There was no box of bottles, but "* he took somo that were put on one side. Mr Benton did not tell him the bottles were Mr Binley’a. To Mr Smith : I did pack seme bottles away in the beginning of December. I pul the bottles in a case, and ihe next time I came Mr Fenton told me Mr Bioley had taken them away. I found some boities packed up, and I said to Mr Fenton, “Are these my bottles V’ He said ho did not know, but that was all he bad. Io Mr Aspiaall ; I did not remove any bottles with Mr Binley’s labels on. There were two of them there, but I left them there.

The Court said there apparently had been a good deal of carelessness, and it was not a case to coma bsfore tbs Court. It would be dismissed. The Court then adjourned.