RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2176, 24 December 1875, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

* THIS DAY. (Before J. Kilgour and H. Goldsmith, Esqs., J. P.'s.) DBUNKKNNESS. Thomas Taylor pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and incapable in Albert street, Grahamstown, on the 23rd instant, and was fined 10a and costs, or the alternative of 24 hours imprisonment. A NUISANCE. Frederick Tetley was charged with a breach of the Borough bye-laws, by neglecting to clean his premises, situated in Grey street, Shortland, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell was caused. . - Defendant said he had no drainage. Mr Bullen said that it was not bad drainage that was complained of, but the excrement of pigs that were kept by defendant, and the offal and garbage that they were fed upon. John Brooks Mason, sworn deposed— That he was Health Officer for the Borough of Thames. He had visited defendant's premises on the 23rd inst. Saw a great deal of pigs' dung, and garbage, which had been trampled into the ground, and from which emanated a bad smell. When witness was. there a man had just commenced cleaning up the yard. The Bench said that under the circumstances of the case they would have to inflict a substantial fine—2os and costs. This was all the business and the Court adjourned. , Gents' Clothes, and every description of Dyeing and Cleaning done on the shortest possible notice at the Thame?