RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3055, 9 July 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

1 TIMARU— TtTBBDAY, JtJLT 8. ' (Before J. H. Sutler, »ud E. Q. Stericker, » K«qrs., J.P.V) DBCNKENNESS. Three men were oliorgad with this offence. ■ One, a first offender, w»s dismissed with a t caution. John Walker, whose name appeared on the charge ahent only the previous day, was Cued £1. He begged to be let off, bf cause . he had nerer got properly sober. J^mee Allen, who had been up some timo ago, was fined 10*. VAOBAITOT. Charles Stanton Wedge, an able-bodied young man, was charged wilh having no lawful visible means of support. Acoused admitted that he had besn idle fur ' four or Ore weeks, but he had lived m Timaru I for four or five yeara. ' Detective Kirby, sworn, stated that the man had been loafing about town sinco - January last, and was a perfeot poet m the ■ place. He had warned him repoatodly to go i out of town and get work. He was con- . tinually hanging about publio houses, , shepherding drunken men. Accused's pnrentß r had spoken to him about their son's goings on, i and asked hin to tako some action, iiu had been convicted of a larceny previously. Sergeant Oullen stated that be had known accused two years, and he gave him a bad 3 character as a loafer and hanger-on of drunken ! men. - Accused had no questions to put to either witness. He was sentenced to three mouths' ' imprisonment, with hard labor. I.ABOBHX. | A young man named William Thomas Capping was charged with stealing a horse ' rug, pair of blankets and pair nf socks, valued at £2 2t, the property of John Hall, from Sherwood Downs, on the 9th November 1883. Mr Hamersley appeared to defend the prisoner, and asked for a remand. Inspector Broham also required a romand to enable ( him to get the witnesses, the accused having been arrested only the previous day, and tho case waa accordingly adjourned till Saturday next. CIVIL OASES. Judgment by default was given m the oases— o. M. Colet r. F. Blake, claim £15 16s for rent, and costs £1. In this case a son of defendant appeared, and said his father had cot yet got the summons, as lie was working up country, and tho summons Was left: at the house. J. Jackeon v. J. Vickers— Claim, £14 12s, costs £1 17a. A number of other civil cases were adjourned for a week, a9 beyond the jurisdiction of two Jußticea, or for other roueons. The oaio Tanner v. Carpenter, wbioh the Bejidsnt Magistrate bad adjourned becauae thero was a quantity of written oridenco to go through, was again adjourned for tho same reuton. Two summons caacs were also adjourned till next Tuesday, namely, Mary Jjne Bull v. John Bull, wife desertion ; and Townsund v. C. Townsend, application to vary an order j for maintenance.