CHRISTCHURCH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6714, 29 November 1889, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

This Day. (Before F. Guinness and James Gapes, 5 Esqs.) Drunkenness. — Alexander Robinson, charged with having been drunk at the railway station on the evening of Nov. 28, with using bad language, resisting Constable Kelly, and damaging his uniform, was fined 203, on forty-eight hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness, 40s, or seven days, for assaulting the constable, Is and 2a Gd damages for injuring the uniform, and 2s cab hire. Bad Language. — Jeremiah Driscoll, for using obscene language within the hearing of a public place, in Manchester street, was sentenced to seven days' hard labour. False Pretences. — James Brown was charged on information with having, on Oct. 81, obtained a quantity of beef of the value of 78, the goods of Benjamin Berry, by means of false pretences, from Fate Berry. Mr Salter appeared for the accused. Kate Berry stated that accused came to her husband's place of business in Montreal street, and asked for some beef and said that he had left a load of straw at Mr Berry's stables, and that he was to be paid on Saturday. He also said that he bad left a load of straw at the Royal stables, and had not been paid for it. Witness let him have the meat, and entered it against him in the book. Benjamin Berry said that he had never seen Brown before, and that the accused had left no straw for him. To Mr i Salter : Witness' name was not over the stableß. Mr Salter called the accused, who stated that about three weekß i ago, on the same day on which he i got the meat from Mrs Berry he sold a i load of straw to the Eoyal stables. He i got the meat from Mrs Berry, intending to . pay for it when he was paid for the straw. : He did not tell her that he had left a load '. of straw for her husband. He was ready if to pay for the meat. To Mr Pender : He i had. not yet paid for the meat, because he • had not got the money. Sometimes he got i drunk when he came to town. He lived at i Shand's Track, and had never been to , Berry's Bhop before. In reply to the , Bench Mr Pender handed in a list of pre- , vious convictions against the accused, I including several charges of drunkenness, , one of larceny, and another of cruelty to ; animals. The Bench considered the accused , had used false pretenceß, but, in consideri ation of the fact that he had a large • family, inflicted a fine of 20b, with the i alternative of seven days' imprisonment.