RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2917, 29 January 1884, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

TIMARU.— Monday, Jaw. 28th. (Before F. LeCreo, Esq., J.P., and His Worship th« Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. A Slot offender pleaded guilty to a ofaarge of being drunk whilst in charge of two horeeo and a buggy on Saturday evening, and atao to a second charge of resisting t.ho arresting conatublo. He was fined 20s on each charge, and 10a ousts. W. V. Finn, who whs remanded from Wainiato a wee k ago for medical treatment as » lunatio from drink, whh brought up and dincharged, Dr Drew certifying to his recovery. He wus ordered to pay 10b 6d for medical expenseu. TJNBEGieTEBBD DOOS. The following cases were brought against poreons for owning unregistered doge, under clause 4 of the Dog Registration Act 1880. Geo. Bnwes, charged with having one dog unrcgi«tnred on the 23rd inst., admitted tho charge but urged in exmiee tbat hia "hours" [ (fce 18 an cngiae driver) would not allow |bim to get to 'he registration office within office , hcurs. The dog wrs registered now, but he • had ti get some one elsu to do it for him. It I wns reftir.tered on the 2itb, two days before he I got the summons. i The Bonoh told him he might have got some ono la do the business for him sooner. Tfcey would, however, let him off lightly. i Fined seand oosts, 9a. .Tas.' Warden, of Sutherland*, was fined st, and coftf, 10a, for haviug one unregistered i do.T on the 23rd. said hia dog was registered last year on tbo 9th, and would have been r»gis- , tered witbin the 14 daya this yenr, but there wni no registration .office at the Point. It was a long way to come, from Sutberlands to ; Tiroaru, to register a dog, and bo had nothing i els» to come for. He would hare registered it the first time be camo in. The Bench told him that the Jaw did not make distance an excuse. Jag. Newton, sen., charged with having > three unregistered dogs on the 23rd, denied it, — ho hnd only two dogs. A coDKtivblo proved tbat he aaw a lad, defendant's eon, with three unregistered dogs and the lad slid they belonged to his father. The boy had been Biibpccnsed to appoar, but defendant, aaid be had sent him to school ; he 'ras only eleven years of age, and he did not think' ha need conie. As to the dogs, he was waiting to get some small sums due to him, and ho bad aakod Mr. Lough to delay tbe matter. He had not registered them yet. Wijen be gob the summons ha thought he would wait ta see wb»f> would be done with aim. The Bench corrected defendant's notion (hat hia boy need not nttonr) to a summons, (aid fined him 5s for each dog, and caets. 9a, and warned him that ha had better register his dogs at once, or ho might be brought up agaii. Three othar oa«eB tfers withdrawn, tho partes summoned proving that they had regietsred thoir dogs before receiving the summons?!). The " oamplniuts" ware lodged in each case on the 18t!i, but the "information! " were not sworn till tho 24th, and in the interval the law had been complied with. In one of those cases u man was charged with having fivo unregistered dogs; he showed that he h:id dectroyed three of them and ■registered the other two on the 21st. BTBAT BTOCK. George Taylor was oharged by Constable Phillips with allowing a horse to wander on Ifort.'astroe;. Defendant not onlyempbatically denied the charge, but cbnrged the constable with taking the borae out of bis pttddook, Bud reniarkod that if he did such a thing himself hu would g<*t nix montha for it, the supposed. Th3_ constable showed tbat he found the horsu in Ncrth etreet, and as he wis taking it to thn pound it ran on to an unfsneed piece of 1 md, aiu) when he had brought it out again the defendant came out of his homo and chim;d it. Del'endnnt aaid the horso was running on thia gronnd, a ten acre paddock, which was fooooil except where a thoroughfare ran through it. He had been on. the road and taw nothing of the horse, and a quarter of an hour ufterwucU lie saw tho oon»table driving , it out of tbo paddook. He was cot prepared to swiftr, however, tbat the pooatable did not nod the bone on the road. The Bonoh concluded that defendant had jumped to a conolusiou ooncerning the whereabouts of tbe horse when tbe constable seized it, and find him 5« and oosta 7s. I. Fonscc.j, for allowing two cows and a calf to wander; on a road near Wai-iti, was fined 1)8 and ootts 7a. The Court then roae.