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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5023, 9 June 1884, Page 3

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CHRISTCHURCH. This Dat. (Before R. Beetham, Esq., R.M., R Westenra, and F. J. Kiinbell, Esqs.) Drunkenness. — Mary Mitchell, an old offender, was fined £1 or 48 hours' imprisonment. Mary Gough, an old woman, who had not been before the Court for some time, was fined ss. Stealing a Coat.— Michael Dolau admitted stealing a coat, value .£1 12s Gd, from . the shop of Mr Le Masurier, Cashel streot, on Saturday evening. The accused had been seen loaSng about the shop by Constable Allen, who saw him take the coat and walk off with it, He had been previously convicted, and was now sentenced to two months' hard labour. The Heathcote Abms Hotel.— Margaret George, licensee of the Heathcote Arms Hotel, was accused of failing, without reasonable came, to supply accommodation to a traveller. MrM'Connel appeared for the defendant. Henry Bean, a cooper working at Vincent's Brewery, said he went to the Heathcote Arms Hotel, near the Ferry bridge, on or about May 17, to get a tea and bed. The barman told him he was very sorry he could not give witness any tea, as they had not anything in the house for themselves. Mrs George was in the bar, but she left before witness had the conversation with the barman, who told witness ho had nothing to give him a bed on, as he (the barman) had to sleep on the floor. Crossexamined : Mr Todhunter, a partner of Vincent and Co., told witness to go and ask for the tea and bed. If witness had got the bed he should havo come away. Mr M'Connell thought the last answer showed the man was not a traveller. Mr Pender did not care to go on. Tho Bench said the case would be dismissed. Mr M'Connel asked for costs against the informant Bean. The Bench allowed costs, remarking that the criminal machinery of the Court was never intended to be used to servo private purposes. Miscellaneous. — T. B. Smith, a cab-

man, was fined 5s for refusing to take a fare from Mr Maddison on the night of May 22. — The following were fined 5s each ! and 7s cost 3 each for driving through j the city without lights after sunset : I — A. Zuvis, P. Burgess, Joseph Crozier, !N. Columbus, C. Blackburn, L. Harper, jC. Bates, W. M'Connell, and J. Kerr. — For leaving vehicles unattended .- — L. Blake, and N. Columbus were each fined 5s for leaving their horses and carts in the streets without locking the wheels. — J. T. Williams and J. Millar, two boys who had been throwing stones at a Chinai man, were cautioned that the next ', time they did so a severe whipping would follow. — The following were fined 10s each for having had in their possession dogs which they had neglected to register : T. Walker, H. M'Gce, H. A. Watt, G. Smith, J. Duncan, R. Kingston, T. Prosser, J. Triggs, R. Mildren, A. Bullock, and W. T. Haines. William Solomon (three dogs) was fined £1 10s. — For allowing horses or cattle to wander in public thoroughfares, A. Bennetts, W. Ford, W. Mayvr, and H. J. Derritt were each fined 5s. — James Butcher was fined 10s for selling fish in the streets without having a hawker's license. — Ah Pong, who had committed a similar offence by hawking vegetables was similarly fined. — John Gray, of 132, Hereford street, was fined £1 for allowing a nuisance to exist in connection with a closet on his premises. — Nine cases, in which dealers were proceeded against for selling kerosene without a license, were adjourned till Monday next. Mr Deacon has been instructed to defend in several of these cases. — Herbert Thomas Amyea was ordered to pay 7s 6d per week towards the support of his illegitimate child, of whom Jane Campion is the mother. — Two cases, in one of which Agnes Houghtcn was accused of provoking and insulting Jane Mills, and the other, a cross-action for a similar offence, were both dismissed. Protection Order. —On application being made to the Bench, an order waa made forbidding the licensed victuallers of Christchurch and St Albans from supplying liquor to W. J. Falloon. Assaults, &o. — Eliza Newton, who did not appear, was fined £1, and ordered to pay 15s costs to the complainant for assaulting Hannah Lester. The complainant was the wife of a man who had forsaken her to live with defendant. On the previous Monday Lester was sent to gaol for six months because he had not been able to find sureties that he would support his wif« and family, and as Mrs Lester was leaving the Court, the. defendant struck her on the head. — Annie Fitzhenry was accused of assaulting Anthony Hurst on June 2, at Phillipstown. Mr Kippenberger appeared for complainant. The parties were next door neighbours, who appeared to have been living in anything but a neighbourly manner, if what they said of one another was true. Complainant said that on the occasion which was the subject of the assault, Mr 3 Fitzhenry had raised a tomahawk against him. Defendant said she was only using the tomahawk to cut down a clothes line. The Bench said •• the only recommendation they could give was that the parties put up such a fence between them as could not be gob through with an axe. Ca3e dismissed.