RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 798, 11 September 1872, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TlMAßU— Tuesday, September 10. [Before B. Woollcoinbo, Esq., B.M.] BREACH OF DOS NUISANCE ORDINANCE. Samuel Briggs was charged with having m hia possession one unregistered dog. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Constable Kennedy stated that he was at defendant's residence on the 30th ultimo : saw a terrier dog ovei* twelve months old.— Defendant said that the dog was his daughter's, and she had since, registered it. The dog was sometimes at his place and sometimes m Timaru. — The Resident Magistrate said that defendant was liable to a penalty for having the dog m his house or liis following j he would be fined £1 and costs. . EUEIOUS DRIVING. Sumuel Norton pleaded guilty to a charge of furious driving on the. main road near the Washdvke, und'was fined £1 and costs. BREACH OF THE MUNICIPAL ACT: Thomas H. Parsons, junr., was • charged . with having on the Ist inst neglpcted to keep a light burning on a hoarding on the Great South Road; defendant pleaded guilty and . was fined .£1 and costs. • BREACH OP THE POLICE ORDINANCE. Alexander Campbell was charged' with . furious driving on the Great North Road, also for driving his team without reins while . riding on his dray, and also with cruelty to : animals, by wantonly illtreatiug a horse which he was driving. The Resident Magistrate fined him LI for each offence, and said the lust charge should have been laid under the English. " Cruelty to Animals Act," when defendant might have been fined lis for the offence. ■ ■'.■.;. CIVIL CASE. . . ' McKeown t. A. Campbell — Claim L 3 16s 6d. Judgment by confession. Defendant ordered to pay m 48 hours.